33. Get home with the brake, 
to brue with and bake, 
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Septembers abstract. 32 
To couer the shed 
drie ouer the hed, 
To lie vnder cow,' 
to rot vnder mow,! 
To serue to burne, 
for many a turne. 
To sawpit drawe 
boord log, to sawe. 
Let timber be haile, 
least profit doe quaile. 
Such boord and pale 
is readie sale. 
Sawne slab let lie, 
for stable and stie, 
sawe dust spred thick, 
makes alley trick. 
Kéepe safe thy fence, 
scare breakhedge thence. 
A drab and a knaue 
will prowle to haue. 
Marke winde and moone, 
at midnight and noone. 
Some rigs thy plow, 
some milks thy cow. 
Red cur or black, 
few prowlers lack. 
39 Some steale, some pilch, 
some all away filch, 
Mark losses with gréefe, 
through prowling théefe. 
Thus endeth Septembers ab- 
stract, agréeing with Sep- 
tembers husbandrie.? 
4 Other short remem- 
brances.” 
[40 ] Now friend, as ye wish, 
goe seuer thy fish: 
When friend shall come, 
to be sure of some. 
[41] Thy ponds renew, 
put éeles in stew, 
To léeue? till Lent, 
and then to be spent. 
[42] Set priuie or prim, 
set boxe like him. 
Set Giloflowers* all, 
that growes on the wall. 
[43] Set herbes some more, 
for winter store. 
Sowe séedes for pot, 
for flowers sowe not. 
Here ends Septembers short remembrances.” 
To lie under mow, 
to rot under kow. 1577. 
* These and similar notes under other months do not occur in 1577. 
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4 Gelliflowers. 
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