21
Foule priuies are now to be clensed and [fide],
let night be appointed such [baggage] to hide:
Which buried in garden, in trenches alowe,
shall make very many things better to growe.
Sootie chimneyes.
22
The chimney all sootie would now be made cleene,
for feare of mischances, too oftentimes seene:
Old chimney and sootie, if fier once take,
by burning and breaking, soone mischeefe may make.[E127]
Put horse into stable.
23
When ploughing is ended, and pasture not great,
then stable thy horses, and tend them with meat:
Let season be drie when ye take them to house,
for danger of [nittes], or for feare of a louse.[E128]
Sauing of doong.
24
Lay compas vp [handsomly], round on a hill,
to walke in thy yard at thy pleasure and will,
More compas it maketh and handsom the plot,
if horsekeeper daily forgetteth it not.
25[7]
Make hillocks of molehils, in field thorough out,
and so to remaine, till the yeere go about.
Make also the like [whereas] plots be too hie,
all winter a rotting for compas to lie.
Thus endeth Nouembers husbandrie.
[1] winnew. 1557.