2
Put barlie to malting,
lay flitches a salting.
Through follie too [beastlie][E118]
much bacon is [reastie].[1]
3
Some winnow, some fan,
some [cast] that can.[2]
In casting prouide,
for séede lay aside.
4
Thresh barlie thou shalt,
for chapman to malt.
Else thresh no more
but for thy store.
5[3]
Till March thresh wheat,
but as ye doo eat,
Least baker forsake it
if [foystines] take it.
6
No chaffe in bin,
makes horse looke thin.
7[4]
Sowe hastings now,
that hastings alow.
8
They buie it full déere,
in winter that réere.
9
Few fowles, lesse swine,
rere now, friend mine.
10
What losse, what sturs,
through rauening curs.
11
Make Martilmas béefe,
déere meate is a théefe.