Septembers husbandrie. 39 
(16 contd. | 
9 Thresh seed and to fanning, September doth crie, Sowing of 
get plough to the field, and be sowing of rie: a 
To harrow the rydgis, er euer ye strike, 
is one peece’ of husbandrie Suffolk doth like. 
10 Sowe timely thy whitewheat, sowe rie in the dust, 
let seede haue his longing, let soile haue hir lust: 
Let rie be partaker of Mihelmas spring, 
to beare out the hardnes that winter doth bring. 
117 Some mixeth to miller the rie with the wheat, Myslen. 
Temmes lofe on his table to haue for to eate: 
But sowe it not mixed, to growe so on land, 
least rie tarie wheat, till it shed as it stand. 
12 If soile doe desire to haue rie with the wheat, 
by growing togither, for safetie more great, 
Let white wheat be ton, be it deere, be it cheape, 
the sooner to ripe, for the sickle to reape. 
13 Though beanes be in sowing but scattered in, Sowing. 
yet wheat, rie, and peason, I loue not too thin: 
Sowe barlie and dredge, with a plentifull hand, 
least weede, steed of seede, ouer groweth thy land. 
14° No sooner a sowing, but out by and by, 
with mother‘ or boy that Alarum can cry: 
And let them be armed with sling or with bowe, Kéeping of 
to skare away piggen, the rooke and the crowe. an 
15 Seed sowen, draw a forrough, the water to draine, Water fur- 
and dike vp such ends as in harmes® doe remaine : ae 
For driuing of cattell or rouing that waie, 
which being preuented, ye hinder their praie. 
! This point of good husbandry, etc. 1577. 2 St. 11 not in 1577. 
3 Sts. 14 and 15 not in 1577, but nine stanzas which do not occur here. 
ealCl-1a7te, Ch-%75 St, 03 - ° Cf. gost, ch. 19, st. 6. 
