Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth CenturyLackington, Allen, and Company, 1812 - 374 pages |
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Abstract agriculture barley better cattle champion CHAP cheese Christ Christmas Cisley cock compas corn crave crop dairy doth dung edition of 1580 endeth Essex fallow farmer fear fence fimble fruit garden Geld give grass harvest hath hemp herbs Hesiod hop-yard hops horses husband husbandry huswife Ill husbandry Ill huswifery keep labour Lady Paget lambs land lesson Lest live look malt meadow meat Michaelmas needfull neighbour never Norf oats pasture pease Pilcrow plant plough Plough Monday poor profit quickset rake season seed seldom servant serve sheep shew short Remembrances soil sown stanza straw Succory suer Suffolk t'one thee thine thing Thomas Tusser thou thresh thrift thrive tillage tion tithing trees tumbrel VARIATION verjuice verse weather weeds wheat wife winter wive wood
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Page 317 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Page xxxviii - North winds send hail, South winds bring rain, East winds we bewail, West winds blow amain; North-east is too cold, South-east not too warm, North-west is too bold, South-west doth no harm.
Page 271 - ... about him ; the rest of the fellows are blinded, and have boughs in their hands, with which they chase this fellow and his hen, about some large court or small enclosure. The fellow with his hen and bells shifting as well as he can, they follow the sound, and sometimes hit him and his hen ; other times, if he can get behind one of them, they thresh one another well...
Page 18 - No sooner a sowing, but out by and by, with mother or boy, that alarum can cry; And let them be armed with sling or with bow, to scare away pigeon, the rook, and the crow.
Page 167 - The hop for his profit I thus do exalt, It strengthened drink, and it favoureth malt ; And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide — if ye draw not too fast.
Page 69 - Of all other doings, house-keeping is chief, For daily it helpeth the poor with relief : — The neighbour, the stranger, and all that have need, Which causeth thy doings the better to speed. Though hearken to this, we should ever among, Yet chiefly at Christmas, of all the year long . Good cause of that use may appear by the name, Though niggardly niggards do kick at the same.
Page 21 - Wife, into thy garden, and set me a plot, with strawberry roots, of the best to be got: Such growing abroad, among thorns in the wood, well chosen and picked, prove excellent good.
Page 73 - To welcome good neighbour, good cheer to have some. Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall, Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal. Beef, mutton, and pork, shred pies of the best, Pig, veal, goose, and capon, and turkey well drest, Cheese, apples, and nuts, jolly Carols to hear, As then in the country, is counted good cheer.
Page 12 - When gains were gone, and years grew on, And death did cry, from London fly, In Cambridge then, I found again, A resting plot ; In college best, of all the rest, With thanks to thee, O Trinity ! Through thee and thine, for me and mine, Some stay I got.
Page 21 - Five hundreth pointes of good Husbandrie, as well for the champion or open countrie, as also for the Woodland or severall, mixed in everie month with Huswiferie, over and besides the booke of Huswiferie.