50 Octobers husbandrie. 
oe vpen 20 Still crop vpon crop many fermers do take, 
and reape little profit for greedines sake. 
Though breadcorne & drinkcorn such croppers do stand: 
count peason or brank, as a comfort to land. 
21 Good land that is seuerall, crops may haue three, 
in champion countrie it may not so bee: 
Ton taketh his season, as commoners may, 
the tother with reason may otherwise say. 
22 Some vseth at first a good fallow to make, 
to sowe thereon barlie, the better to take. 
Next that to sowe pease, and of that to sowe wheat, 
then fallow againe, or lie lay for thy neat. 
23 First rie, and then barlie, the champion saies, 
or wheat before barlie be champion waies: 
But drinke before bread corne with Middlesex men, 
then lay on more compas, and fallow agen. 
24. Where barlie ye sowe, after rie or else wheat, 
if land be vnlustie,’ the crop is not great, 
So lose ye your cost, to your coresie and smart, 
and land (ouerburdened) is cleane out of hart. 
25 Exceptions take of the champion land, 
from lieng alonge from that at thy hand. 
(Just by) ye may comfort with compas at will, 
far off ye must comfort with fauor and skill. 
26 Where rie or else wheat either barlie ye sowe, 
let codware be next, therevpon for to growe: 
Thus hauing two crops, whereof codware is ton, 
thou hast the lesse neede, to lay cost therevpon. 
1 “There is a sort of Barley, called Sprat Barley, or Battledore Barley, 
that will grow very well on lusty land.” —T.R. 
