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As cat a good mouser is needfull in house,
because for hir commons she killeth the mouse,
So rauening curres, as a meany doo keepe,
makes master want meat, and his dog to kill sheepe.[E123]
Martilmas beefe.
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(For Easter) at Martilmas hang vp a beefe,
for [stalfed] and pease fed plaie pickpurse the theefe:
With that and the like, er an grasse [biefe] come in,
thy folke shal looke cheerelie when others looke thin.
¶ Set garlike and beanes.
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Set [garlike] and beanes, at S. Edmond[4] the king,
the moone in the wane, thereon hangeth a thing:[E124]
Thencrease of a [pottle] (well prooued of some)
shal pleasure thy houshold er peskod time come.
Threshing.
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When raine is a let to thy dooings abrode,
set threshers a threshing to laie on good lode:
Thresh cleane ye must bid them, though lesser they [yarn],
and looking to thriue, haue an eie to thy barne.
Cattle beaters.
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Take heede to thy man in his furie and heate,
with ploughstaff and [whipstock], for maiming thy neate:
To thresher for hurting of cow with his flaile,
or making thy hen to plaie [tapple vp taile].[E125]
Corne stealers.