An Introduction. 13 
4, 
¢ An Introduction to the Booke 
of Fusbandrie. 
Chap. 4. 
Ood husbandmen must moile & toile, 
to laie to liue by laboured feeld : 
Their wiues at home must keepe such coile, 
as their like actes may profit yeeld. 
For well they knowe, 
as shaft from bowe, 
or chalke from snowe, 
A good round rent their Lords they giue, 
and must keepe touch in all their paie: 
With credit crackt else for to liue, 
or trust to legs and run awaie. 
2 Though fence well kept is one good point, 
and tilth well done, in season due ; 
Yet needing salue in time to annoint, 
is all in all and needfull true : 
As for the rest, 
thus thinke I best, 
as friend doth gest, 
With hand in hand to leade thee foorth Cae: 
Goddesse ot 
to Ceres campe, there to behold fushandey: 
A thousand things as richlie woorth, 
as any pearle is woorthie gold. 
! This Introduction is not in the editions of 1573 or 1577. 
