33 — ¶ Januaries Abstract
Chap. 31
1
Bid Christmas adew,
thy stock now renew.
2
Who killeth a neat,
hath cheaper his meat.
Fat home fed souse,
is good in a house.
3
Who dainties loue,
a begger shall proue.
Who alway selles,
in hunger dwelles.
4
Who nothing saue,
shall nothing haue.
5
Lay durt vpon heapes,
some profit it reapes.
When weather is hard,
get muck out of yard.
A fallow bestowe,
where pease shall growe.
Good peason and white,
a fallow will quite.
6
Go gather quickset,
the yongest go get.
Dig garden, stroy mallow,
set willow and sallow.
Gréene willow for stake
in bank will take.1
7
Let Doe go to buck,
with Conie2 good luck.
Spare labour nor monie,
store borough with conie.
Get warrener bound
to vermin thy ground.
Féed Doues, but kill not,
if loose them ye will not.
Doue house repaire,
make Douehole faire.
For hop ground cold,
Doue doong woorth gold.
8
Good gardiner mine,
make garden fine.
Set garden pease,
and beanes if ye please.
Set Respis and Rose,
yoong rootes of those.
9
The timelie buier
hath cheaper his fier.
10
Some burns without wit,
some fierles sit.
11
Now season is good
to lop or fell wood.
Prune trées some allows
for cattle to brows.
12
Giue shéepe to their fées
the mistle of trées.
13
Let lop be shorne
that hindreth corne.
Saue edder and stake,
strong hedge to make.
14
For sap as ye knowe,
let one bough growe.
Next yéere ye may
that bough cut away.
15
A lesson good
to encrease more wood.
163
Saue crotchis of wud,
saue spars and stud.
Saue hop for his dole,
the strong long pole.
17
How euer ye scotch,
saue pole and crotch.
18
From Christmas to May,
weake cattle decay.
19
With vergis acquaint
poore bullock so faint;
This medcin approoued
is for to be looued.
20
Let plaister lie
thrée daies to trie:
too long if ye stay,
taile rots away.
21
Eawes readie to yeane
craues ground rid cleane.
Kéepe shéepe out of briers,
Kéepe beast out of miers.
22
Kéepe bushes from bill,
till hedge ye will:
Best had for thy turne,
their rootes go and burne.
23
No bushes of mine,
if fence be thine.
24
In stubbed plot,
fill hole with clot.4
25
Rid grasse of bones,
of sticks and stones.
26
Warme barth giue lams,
good food to their dams,
Look daily well to them,
least dogs vndoo them.
27
Yoong lamb well sold,
fat lamb woorth goold.
28
Kéepe twinnes for bréed,
as eawes haue néed.5
29
One calfe if it please ye,
now reared shall ease ye.
Calues likely reare,
at rising of yeare.
Calfe large and leane
is best to weane.
30
Calfe lickt take away,
and howse it6 ye may.
This point I allow
for seruant and cow.
31
Calues yonger than other
learne one of another.
32
No danger at all
to geld as they fall.
Yet Michel criesE144
please butchers eies.
33
Sow ready to fare,
craues huswiues7 care.
34
Leaue sow but fiue,
the better to thriue.
35
Weane such for store
as sucks before.
Weane onely but thrée
large bréeders to bée.
36
Lamb, bulchin,E145 and pig,
geld vnder the big.
37
Learne wit, sir dolt,
in gelding of colt.
38
Geld yoong thy filly,
else perish will ginny.
Let gelding alone,
so large of bone.
By breathely tits
few profit hits.
39
Bréede euer the best,
and doo of the rest,
Of long and large,
take huswife a charge.
40
Good cow & good ground8
yéelds yéerely a pound.
Good faring sow
holds profit with cow.
41
Who kéepes but9 twaine,
the more may gaine.
4210
Tith iustly, good garson,
else driue will the parson.
43
Thy garden twifallow,
stroy hemlock and mallow.
44
Like practise they prooue,
that hops doe looue.
45
Now make and wand in
trim bower to stand in.
Leaue wadling about,
till arbor be out.
46
Who now sowes otes,
gets gold and grotes.
Who sowes in May
gets little that way.
47
Go breake vp land,
get mattock in hand,
Stub roote so tough,
for breaking of plough.
48
What greater crime
then losse of time?
4911
Lay land or12 lease
breake vp if ye please.
But fallow not yet,
that hast any wit.
50
Where drink ye sowe,
good tilth bestowe.
51
Small profit is found,
by péeling of ground.
52
Land past the best
cast vp to13 rest.
Thus Endeth Januaries Abstract, Agréeing With Januaries Husbandrie
¶ Other Short Remembrances
53
Get pulling hooke (sirs),
for broome and firs.
Pluck broome, broome still,
cut broome, broome kill.
54
Broome pluckt by and by,
breake vp for rie.
Friend ringle thy hog,
or looke for a dog.
55
In casting prouide,
for séede lay aside.
Get doong, friend mine,
for stock and vine.
56
If earth be not soft,
go dig it aloft.
For quamier get bootes,
stub alders and rootes.
57
Hop poles waxe scant,
for poles mo plant.
Set chestnut and walnut,
set filbeard and smalnut.
58
Peach, plumtrée, & cherie,
yoong bay and his berie.
Or set their stone,
vnset leaue out none.
59
Sowe kirnels to beare,
of apple and peare.
All trées that beare goom
set now as they coom.
60
Now set or remooue
such stocks as ye looue.14
Here Ends Januaries Short Remembrances
1
Green set as a stake
in banke they wil take. 1577.
14
And set or remoue
what fruite ye loue. 1577.
Notes
2 conney. 1577.
3 St. 16 and the second couplets in sts. 21 and 22 are not here in 1577.
4 Here follows in 1577,
Take for thy turne,
their roots go burne.
5 feede. 1577.
6 if. 1577.
7 huswifes. 1577.
8 Good milch kow and sound. 1577.
9 both. 1577.
10 St. 42 is not in 1577.
11 Sts. 49 and 50 are not in 1577.
12 for. M.
13 the. 1577.