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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... less propriety of application when a man was barely turned fifty , as he would have been in 1573 , when the life was first published , than when be was approaching the confines of sixty . These conjectures , for they are no- thing more ...
... less propriety of application when a man was barely turned fifty , as he would have been in 1573 , when the life was first published , than when be was approaching the confines of sixty . These conjectures , for they are no- thing more ...
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... less imprudence , " says Warton , " or vicious extravagance , this desultory character seems to have thrived in no voca- tion . " Fuller quaintly observes , " That his stone , which gathered no moss , was the stone of Sisyphus ; and in ...
... less imprudence , " says Warton , " or vicious extravagance , this desultory character seems to have thrived in no voca- tion . " Fuller quaintly observes , " That his stone , which gathered no moss , was the stone of Sisyphus ; and in ...
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... less partial eyes . I will not deny that the time and trouble I have expended on this old poet , have endeared him to me the more ; because no man is willing to have it supposed that he has laboured in vain - without credit , and ...
... less partial eyes . I will not deny that the time and trouble I have expended on this old poet , have endeared him to me the more ; because no man is willing to have it supposed that he has laboured in vain - without credit , and ...
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... less rare than the edition of 1557 , favoured me with the particulars of its contents , which essentially differ from the preceding as well as the sub- sequent editions , containing more than the former , and less than the latter . + ...
... less rare than the edition of 1557 , favoured me with the particulars of its contents , which essentially differ from the preceding as well as the sub- sequent editions , containing more than the former , and less than the latter . + ...
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... less a judge of the merits of a book on Husbandry or Huswifery ; and it is evident he had never read more than detached parts , or he would not have asserted that Pan and Ceres were not once named . But had Pan , and Ceres , and Pomona ...
... less a judge of the merits of a book on Husbandry or Huswifery ; and it is evident he had never read more than detached parts , or he would not have asserted that Pan and Ceres were not once named . But had Pan , and Ceres , and Pomona ...
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Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: As Well for the Champion Or Open ... William Fordyce Mavor,Thomas Tusser No preview available - 2017 |
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Abstract 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 lambs land lesson Lest live look Lord Paget 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 Suffolk t'one thee thine thing Thomas Tusser thou thresh thrift thrive tillage tion tithing trees trim tumbrel VARIATION verjuice verse weather weeds wheat wife winter wive wood
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Page 2 - Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring ; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
Page xl - 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 275 - Wife, some time this week, if the weather hold clear, An end of wheat sowing we make for this year : Remember thou therefore, though I do it not, The seed-cake, the pasties, aud furmenty pot. Twice a-week Roast. Good plowmen, look weekly, of custom and right/ For roast meat on Sundays, and Thursdays at night.
Page xxxix - At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
Page 23 - HUSWIFERIE, over and besides the booke of Huswiferie, corrected, better ordered, and newlie augmented to a fourth part more, with divers other lessons, as a diet for the Farmer, of the properties of Winds...
Page 20 - 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 169 - It strengtheneth drink, and it flavoureth malt, And being well brewed, long kept it will last, And drawing abide — if ye draw not too fast.
Page 277 - In sickness, hato trouble ; seek quiet and rest. Remember thy soul; let no fancy prevail; Make ready to God-ward ; let faith never quail : The sooner thyself thou submittest to God, The sooner he ceaseth to scourge with his rod.
Page 14 - 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 75 - 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.