81 — ¶ Dairie
Good dairie doth pleasure,
Ill dairie spendes treasure.
Dairie.
1
Good huswife in dairie, that needes not be tolde,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir in golde.
2
Ill seruant neglecting what huswiferie saies,
deserueth hir fee to be paid hir with baies.E440
Good droieE441 woorth much.1
Marke sluts and such.
3
Good droie to serue hog, to helpe wash, and to milke,
more needfull is truelie than some in their silke.
4
Though homelie be milker, let cleanlie be cooke,
for a slut and a slouen be knowne by their looke.
In dairie no cat,
Laie bane for a rat.
Traps for rats.
5
Though cat (a good mouser) doth dwell in a house,
yet euer in dairie haue trap for a mouse.
6
Take heede how thou laiest the bane for the rats,
for poisoning seruant, thy selfe and thy brats.
Notes
1 Though droy be, etc. 1577.