17 A Digression to Husbandlie Furniture
Barne furniture.
1
Barne locked, gofe ladder, short pitchforke and long,
flaile, strawforke and rake, with a fan that is strong:
Wing, cartnaue and bushel, peck, strike readie hand,
get casting sholue,E73 broome, and a sack with a band.
Stable furniture.
2
A stable wel planked, with key and a lock,
walles stronglie wel lyned,8 to beare off a knock:
A rack and a manger, good litter and haie,
swéete chaffe and some prouender euerie daie.
3
A pitchfork, a doongfork, seeue, skepE74 and a bin,
a broome and a paile to put water therein:
A handbarow, wheelebarow, sholue and a spade,
a currie combe, mainecombe, and whip for a Jade.
4
A buttrice9 and pincers, a hammer and naile,
an aperneE75 and siszers for head and for taile:
Hole bridle and saddle, whit letherE76 and nall,
with collers and harneis, for thiller and all.
5
A panel and wantey, packsaddle and ped,E77
A line to fetch litter, and halters for hed.
With crotchis and pinnes, to hang trinkets theron,
and stable fast chained, that nothing be gon.
Cart furniture.
6
Strong exeltred cart, that is clouted10 and shod,11E78
cart ladder and wimble, with percer and pod:
Wheele ladder for haruest, light pitchfork and tough,
shaue, whiplash12 wel knotted, and cartrope ynough.
A Coeme is halfe a quarter.
7
Ten sacks, whereof euerie one holdeth a coome,E79
a pulling hookeE80 handsome, for bushes and broome:
Light tumbrel and doong crone, for easing sir wag,
sholue, pickax, and mattock, with bottle and bag.
Husbandry tooles.
8
A grinstone, a whetstone, a hatchet and bil,
with hamer and english naile, sorted with skil:
A frower of iron, for cleaning of lath,
with roule for a sawpit, good husbandrie hath.
9
A short saw and long saw, to cut a too logs,
an ax and a nads,E81 to make troffe for thy hogs:
A Douercourt beetle,E82 and wedges with steele,
strong leuer to raise vp the block fro the wheele.
Plough furniture.
10
Two ploughs and a plough chein, ij culters, iij shares,
with ground cloutes & side clouts for soile that so tares:
With ox bowes and oxyokes, and other things mo,
for oxteeme and horseteeme, in plough for to go.E83
11
A plough beetle, ploughstaff,E84 to further the plough,
great clod to a sunder that breaketh so rough;
A sled for a plough, and another for blocks,
for chimney in winter, to burne vp their docks.
12
Sedge collers13 for ploughhorse, for lightnes of neck,
good seede and good sower, and also seede peck:
Strong oxen and horses, wel shod and wel clad,
wel meated and vsed, for making thee sad.
13
A barlie rake toothed, with yron and steele,
like paier of harrowes, and roler doth weele:
A sling for a moether,E85 a bowe for a boy.
a whip for a carter, is hoigh de la roy.E86
14
A brush sithe and grasse sithe, with rifle to stand,
a cradleE87 for barlie, with rubstone and sand:
Sharpe sikle and weeding hooke, haie fork and rake,
a meake for the pease, and to swinge vp the brake.
Haruest tooles.
1514
Short rakes for to gather vp barlie to binde,
and greater to rake vp such leauings behinde:
A rake for to hale vp the fitchis that lie,
a pike for to pike them vp handsom to drie.
1615
A skuttle or skreine, to rid soile fro the corne,
and sharing sheares readie for sheepe to be shorne:
A fork and a hooke, to be tampring in claie,16
a lath hammer, trowel, a hod, or a traie.
17
Strong yoke for a hog, with a twicher and rings,
with tar in a tarpot,E88 for dangerous things:17
A sheepe marke, a tar kettle, little or mitch,
two pottles of tar to a pottle of pitch.
18
Long ladder to hang al along by the wal,
to reach for a neede to the top of thy hal:
Beame, scales, with the weights, that be sealed and true,E89
sharp moulspare with barbs, that the mowles do so rue.
1918
Sharpe cutting spade, for the deuiding of mow,
with skuppat and skauel, that marsh men alow:
A sickle to cut with, a didall and crome
for draining of ditches, that noies thee at home.
2019
A clauestock and rabetstock, carpenters craue,
and seasoned timber, for pinwood to haue:
A Jack for to saw vpon fewell for fier,
for sparing of firewood, and sticks fro the mier.
21
Soles, fetters, and shackles, with horselock and pad,
a cow house for winter, so meete to be had:
A stie for a bore, and a hogscote for hog,
a roost for thy hennes, and a couch for thy dog.
Here Endeth Husbandlie Furniture
* * * In the edition of 1577 stanzas 31-46 of Augusts Husbandrie (post) are found here.