83 Washing
Take heede when ye wash,
Else run in the lash.
Washing.
1
Maids, wash well and wring well, but beat ye wot how,
if any lack beating, I feare it be yow.
2
In washing by hand, haue an eie to thy boll,
for launders and millers, be quick of their toll.
Drie sunne, drie winde,
Safe binde, safe finde.
3
Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie,
go wring well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I.
4
To trust without heede is to venter a ioint,
giue tale and take count, is a huswifelie point.
Where many be packing,
Are manie things lacking.
5
Where hens fall a cackling, take heede to their nest,
where drabs fall a whispring, take heede to the rest.
6
Through negligent huswifes, are many things lacking,
and Gillet suspected will quickly be packing.