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Octobers husbandrie. 
71 Seede husbandly sowen, water furrow? thy ground, 
that raine when it commeth may run away round, 
Then stir about Nicoll, with arrow and bowe, 
take penie for killing of euerie crowe. 
[Not in 1577.] 
A digression to the usage of diuers countries, 
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II 
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concerning Tillage. 
Each soile hath no liking of euerie graine, 
nor barlie and wheat is for euerie vaine: 
Yet knowe I no countrie so barren of soile 
but some kind of corne may be gotten with toile. 
In Brantham, where rie but no barlie did growe, 
good barlie I had, as a meany did knowe: 
Five seame of an aker I truely was paid, 
for thirtie lode muck of each aker so laid. 
In Suffolke againe, where as wheat neuer grew, 
good husbandrie vsed good wheat land I knew: 
This Prouerbe experience long ago gaue, 
that nothing who practiseth nothing shall haue. 
As grauell and sand is for rie and not wheat, 
(or yeeldeth hir burden to tone the more great, ) 
So peason and barlie delight not in sand, 
but rather in claie or in rottener land. 
Wheat somtime is steelie or burnt as it growes, 
for pride® or for pouertie practise so knowes. 
Too lustie of courage for wheat doth not well, 
nor after sir peeler he looueth to dwell. 
1 In Septembers Husbandry, 1577. 
2 ‘Furrows drawn cross the Ridges in the lowest part of the Ground.” 
—T.R. 
3 or too much Dung.”—T.R. 
