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Good husbandlie lessons. 
Good husband he trudgeth, to bring in the gaines, 
good huswife she drudgeth, refusing no paines : 
Though husband at home be to count? ye wote what, 
yet huswife within is as needfull as that. 
What helpeth in store to haue neuer so much, 
halfe lost by ill vsage, ill huswiues, and such: 
So, twentie lode bushes, cut downe at a clap, 
such heede may be taken, shall stop but a gap. 
A retcheles” seruant, a mistres that scowles, 
a rauening mastife, and hogs that eate fowles : 
A giddie braine maister, and stroyal his knaue, 
brings ruling to ruine, and thrift to hir graue. 
With some vpon Sundaies, their tables doe reeke, 
and halfe the weeke after, their dinners to seeke: 
Not often exceeding, but alwaie inough, 
is husbandlie fare, and the guise of the plough. 
Ech daie to be feasted, what husbandrie wurse, 
ech daie for to feast, is as ill for the purse : 
Yet measurely feasting with neighbors among, 
shal make thee beloued, and liue the more long. 
Things husbandly handsom let workman contriue, 
but build not for glorie, that thinkest to thriue : 
Who fondlie in dooing consumeth his stock, 
in the end for his follie doth get but a mock. 
Spend none but your owne, howsoeuer ye spend, 
for bribing? and shifting, haue seldom good end: 
In substance although ye haue neuer so much, 
delight not in parasites, harlots, and such.* 
* In lieu of last two lines, the edition of 1577 reads: 
Tithe duely and truely with harty good will, 
that god and his blessing may dwell with thee still. 
1577. 2 reachelesse. 1577. 3 bringing. 1577. 
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