1
No season to hedge,
get [béetle] and wedge.
Cleaue logs now all,
for kitchen and hall.
2
Dull working tooles
soone courage cooles.
3
Leaue off [tittle tattle],
and looke to thy cattle.
Serue yoong poore [elues]
alone by themselues.
4
Warme barth for neate,
woorth halfe their meate.
The elder that nurteth
the yonger soone hurteth.
5
Howse cow that is old,
while winter doth hold.
6
Out once in a day,
to drinke and to play.
7
Get trustie to serue,
least cattle doo sterue.
And such as in déede
may helpe at a néede.
8
Obserue this law,
in seruing out straw.
9
In walking about,
good [forke] spie out.
10
At full and at change,
spring tides are strange.
If doubt ye fray,
driue cattle away.