12
Set garlike and pease,
saint [Edmond] to please.
13
When raine takes place,
to threshing apace.
14
Mad braine, too rough,
[marres] all at plough.
With flaile and whips,
fat hen short skips.
15
Some threshing by taske,
will steale and not aske:
Such thresher at night
walkes seldom home light.
Some corne away [lag]
in bottle and bag.
Some steales, for a iest,
egges out of the nest.
16
Lay [stouer][E119] vp drie
in order to lie.
Poore bullock[5] doth craue
fresh straw to haue.
17
Make wéekly vp flower,
though threshers do [lower]:
Lay graine in loft
and turne it oft.
18
For muck, regard,
make cleane foule yard.
Lay straw to rot,
in watrie plot.
19
Hedlond vp plow,
for compas ynow.
20
For herbes good store,
trench garden more.
21
At midnight trie
foule priuies to [fie].