Octobers husbandrie. 47 
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€ Octobers husbandrie. 
Chap. 17. 
October good blast, Forgotten month past, 
To blowe the hog mast. Doe now at the last. 
OW lay vp thy barley land, drie as ye can, pha 
when euer ye sowe it so looke for it than: 
Get daily aforehand, be neuer behinde ; 
least winter preuenting do alter thy minde. 
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2 Who laieth vp fallow too soone or too wet, 
with noiances many doth barley beset. 
For weede and the water so soketh and sucks, 
that goodnes from either it vtterly plucks. 
3 Greene rie in September when timely thou hast, 
October for wheat sowing calleth as fast. 
If weather will suffer, this counsell I giue, 
Leaue sowing of wheat before Hallomas eue. 
Wheat 
sowing. 
4 Where wheat vpon edish ye mind to bestowe, pone etek 
let that be the first of the wheat ye do sowe: 
He seemeth to hart it and comfort to bring, 
that giueth it comfort of Mihelmas spring. 
5 White wheat vpon peaseetch doth grow as he wold, Bet mh 
but fallow is best, if we did as we shold:! 
Yet where, how, and when, ye entend to begin, 
let euer the finest be first sowen in.? 
6° Who soweth in raine, he shall reape it with teares, 
who soweth in harmes,*‘ he is euer in feares, 
Who soweth ill seede or defraudeth his land, 
hath eie sore abroode, with a coresie at hand. 
1 White wheat upon pease etch is willing to grow : 
though best upon fallow as many do knowe. 1577. 
2 After st. 5, 1577 has st. 31 fost. 3 St. 6 not in 1577. 
4 **Tn harms or harms way, whether of Roads, ill Neighbours, Torrents 
of Water, Conies, or other Vermin.”—T.R. Cf. ave, ch. 16, st. F5. 
