The Commodities of Husbandrie. 
6. 
The commodities of Husbandrie. 
Chap. 6. 
Let house haue to fill her, 
Let land haue to till her. 
O dwellers, what profiteth house for to stand ? 
What goodnes, vnoccupied, bringeth the land ? 
Z. 
Vo labor no bread, 
LVo host we be dead. 
No husbandry vsed, how soone shall we sterue ? 
House keeping neglected, what comfort to serue ? 
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Lll father no gift, 
Vo knowledge no thrift. 
The father an vnthrift, what hope to the sonne ? 
The ruler vnskilfull, how quickly vndonne ? 
Te 
Chap. 7. 
As true as thy faith 
This riddle thus saith. 
Seeme but a drudge, yet I passe any King 
To such as can vse me, great wealth I do bring. 
Since Adam first liued, I neuer did die, 
When Noe was shipman, there also was I. 
The earth to susteine me, the sea for my fish : 
Be readie to pleasure me, as I would wish." 
What hath any life, but I helpe to preserue, 
What wight without me, but is ready to sterue. 
1 The earth is my storehouse, the sea my fishpond, 
What good is in either, by me it is found. 1577. 
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The praise of 
husbandrie. 
