A Lesson
A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month,& how to finde out huswiferie verses by the Pilcrowe, and Champion from Woodland.
In euerie month, er1 in aught be begun,E1
Reade ouer that month, what auailes to be dun.
So neither this trauell2 shall seeme to be lost:
Nor thou to repent of this trifeling cost.
The figure of abstract and month doo agree,
Which one to another relations bee.E2
These verses so short, without figure that stand,3
Be points of themselues, to be taken in hand.
¶4
In husbandrie matters, where PilcroweE3 ye finde,
That verse appertaineth to huswiferie kinde.
So haue ye mo lessons, (if there ye looke well),
Than huswiferie booke doth vtter or tell.
Of Champion husbandrie now doo I write,
Which heretofore neuer this booke did recite.
With lessons approoued, by practise and skill:
To profit the ignorant, buie it that will.
The Champion differs from Seuerall much,
For want of partition, closier and such.
One name to them both doo I giue now & than,
For Champion countrie, and Champion man.
Notes
1 yer. 1585.
2 travail. 1577.
3 The lessons that after those figures so stand. 1577.
4 The edition of 1577 contains only the first two verses.