[21.]

Nouembers husbandrie.

Chap. 19.

Nouember take flaile,
Let ship no more saile.

Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.

Slaughter time.

1
At [Hallontide], slaughter time entereth in,
and then doth the husbandmans feasting begin
From thence vnto shroftide kill now and then some,
their offal for houshold the better wil come.[E120]

Dredge is otes and barlie.

2
Thy dredge and thy barley go thresh out to malt,
let malster be cunning, else lose it thou shalt:
[Thencrease] of a [seame] is a bushel for store,
bad else is the barley, or huswife much more.