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Good husbandlte lessons. 
Who looketh to marrie must laie to keepe house, 
for loue may not alway be plaieing with douse : 
If children encrease, and no staie of thine owne, 
what afterwards followes is soone to be knowne. 
Once charged with children, or likelie to bee, 
giue ouer to sudgerne, that thinkest to thee: 
Least grutching of hostis, and crauing of nurse, 
be costlie and noisome to thee and thy purse. 
Good husbands that loueth good houses to keepe 
are oftentimes careful when other doe sleepe: 
To spend as they may, or to stop at the furst, 
for running in danger, or feare of the wurst. 
Go count with thy cofers,! when haruest is in, 
which waie for thy profite, to saue or to win: 
Of tone of them both, if a sauer wee smel, 
house keeping is godlie where euer we dwel. 
Sonne, think not thy monie purse bottom to burn, 
but keepe it for profite, to serue thine owne turn: 
A foole and his monie be soone at debate, 
which after with sorrow repents him too late. 
Good bargaine a dooing, make priuie but few, 
“in selling, refraine not abrode it to shew: 
In making make haste, and awaie to thy pouch, 
in selling no haste, if ye dare it auouch. 
Good Landlord who findeth, is blessed of God, 
A cumbersome Landlord is husbandmans rod: 
He noieth, destroieth, and al to this drift, 
to strip his poore tenant of ferme and of thrift. 
1 coefers. 1577. 
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Wife and 
children 
craue a 
dwelling. 
Thee for 
thriue. 
Hostisses 
grudge: 
nurses craue. 
Live within 
thy Tedder. 
By haruest 
is ment al 
thy stock. 
Be thine 
own purs 
bearer. 
Euill Jand- 
lord. 
