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Chap. 51
1
Ill husbandrie braggeth,
to go with the best:
Good husbandrie baggeth
vp gold in his chest.
2
Ill husbandry trudgeth,
with vnthrifts about:
Good husbandry snudgeth,
for fear of a dout.
3
Ill husbandrie spendeth
abrode like a mome:
Good husbandrie tendeth
his charges at home.
4
Ill husbandrie selleth
his corne on the ground:
Good husbandrie smelleth
no gain that way found.
5
Ill husbandrie loseth,
for lack of good fence:
Good husbandrie closeth,
and gaineth the pence.
6
Ill husbandrie trusteth
to him and to hur:E381
Good husbandrie lusteth
himselfe for to stur.
7
Ill husbandrie eateth
himselfe out a doore:
Good husbandrie meateth
his friend and the poore.
8
Ill husbandrie daieth,E382
or letteth it lie:
Good husbandrie paieth,
the cheaper to bie.
9
Ill husbandrie lurketh,
and stealeth a sleepe:
Good husbandrie worketh,
his houshold to kéepe.
10
Ill husbandrie liueth,
by that and by this:E383
Good husbandrie giueth
to erie man his.
11
Ill husbandrie taketh,
and spendeth vp all:
Good husbandrie maketh
good shift with a small.
12
Ill husbandry praieth
his wife to make shift:
Good husbandrie saieth
take this of my gift.
13
Ill husbandry drowseth
at fortune so auke:
Good husbandrie rowseth
himselfe as a hauke.
14
Ill husbandrie lieth
in prison for debt:
Good husbandrie spieth
where profit to get.
15
Ill husbandrie waies
has to fraud what he can
Good husbandrie praies
hath of euerie man.
16
Ill husbandrie neuer
hath welth to keep touch
Good husbandrie euer
hath penie in pouch.
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Good husband his boone,
Or request hath a far.
Ill husband assoone
Hath a tode with an R.E384