20 — ¶ Nouembers Abstract
Chap. 18
1
Let hog once fat,
loose nothing of that.
When mast is gon,
hog falleth anon,
Still fat vp some,
till Shroftide come.
Now porke and souse,
beares tack in house.
2
Put barlie to malting,
lay flitches a salting.
Through follie too beastlieE118
much bacon is reastie.1
3
Some winnow, some fan,
some cast that can.2
In casting prouide,
for séede lay aside.
4
Thresh barlie thou shalt,
for chapman to malt.
Else thresh no more
but for thy store.
53
Till March thresh wheat,
but as ye doo eat,
Least baker forsake it
if foystines take it.
6
No chaffe in bin,
makes horse looke thin.
74
Sowe hastings now,
that hastings alow.
8
They buie it full déere,
in winter that réere.
9
Few fowles, lesse swine,
rere now, friend mine.
10
What losse, what sturs,
through rauening curs.
11
Make Martilmas béefe,
déere meate is a théefe.
12
Set garlike and pease,
saint Edmond to please.
13
When raine takes place,
to threshing apace.
14
Mad braine, too rough,
marres all at plough.
With flaile and whips,
fat hen short skips.
15
Some threshing by taske,
will steale and not aske:
Such thresher at night
walkes seldom home light.
Some corne away lag
in bottle and bag.
Some steales, for a iest,
egges out of the nest.
16
Lay stouerE119 vp drie
in order to lie.
Poore bullock5 doth craue
fresh straw to haue.
17
Make wéekly vp flower,
though threshers do lower:
Lay graine in loft
and turne it oft.
18
For muck, regard,
make cleane foule yard.
Lay straw to rot,
in watrie plot.
19
Hedlond vp plow,
for compas ynow.
20
For herbes good store,
trench garden more.
21
At midnight trie
foule priuies to fie.
22
Rid chimney of soot,
from top to the foot.
23
In stable, put now
thy horses for plow.
24
Good horsekeeper will
laie muck vpon hill.
256
Cut molehils that stand
so thick vpon land.
Thus Endeth Novembers Abstract, Agréeing With Nouembers Husbandrie
¶ Other Short Remembrances
26
Get pole, boy mine,
beate hawes to swine.
Driue hog to the wood,
brake rootes be good.
27
For mischiefe that falles,
looke well to marsh walles.
Drie laier get neate,
and plentie of meate.
28
Curst cattel that nurteth,
poore wennel soon hurteth.
Good neighbour mine,
ring well thy swine.
29
Such winter may serue,
hog ringled7 will sterue.
In frost kéepe dog
from hunting of hog.
Here Ends Nouembers Short Remembrances
Notes
1 resty. 1577
2 1577 reads—
Let husbandly man
make clene as he can.
3 Not in 1577.
4 Stanzas 7-10 are not in 1577.
5 kow.
6 St. 25 is not in 1577.
7 ringd. 1577.