16 The Description of Husbandrie. 
In woodland, in Champion, Citie, or towne 
If long I be absent, what falleth not downe ? 
If long I be present, what goodnes can want ? 
Though things at my comming were neuer so scant. 
So many as looue me, and vse me aright, 
With treasure and pleasure, I richly acquite. 
Great kings I doe succour, else wrong it would go, 
The King of al kings hath appointed it so. 
8. 
* The description of Husbandrie. 
Chap. 8. 
F husband, doth husbandrie challenge that name, 
of husbandrie, husband doth likewise the same : 
Where huswife and huswiferie, ioineth with thease, 
there wealth in abundance is gotten with ease. 
2 The name of a husband, what is it to saie? 
of wife and the houshold the band and the staie : 
Some husbandlie thriueth that neuer had wife, 
yet scarce a good husband in goodnes of life. 
3 The husband is he that to labour doth fall, 
the labour of him I doe husbandrie call : 
If thrift by that labour be any way caught, 
then is it good husbandrie, else it is naught. 
4 So houshold and housholdrie I doe define, 
for folke and the goodes that in house be of thine: 
House keeping to them, as a refuge is set, 
which like as it is, so report it doth get. 
5 Be house or the furniture neuer so rude, 
of husband and husbandrie, (thus I conclude :) 
That huswife and huswiferie, if it be good, 
must pleasure togither as cosins in blood. 
