52 Octobers husbandrie. 
one in 34 Through plenty of acornes, the porkling to fat, 
not taken in season, may perish by that, 
If ratling or swelling get once to the throte, 
thou loosest thy porkling, a crowne to a grote. 
Altea 35 What euer thing fat is, againe if it fall, 
thou ventrest the thing and the fatnes withall, 
The fatter the better, to sell or to kil, 
but not to continue, make proofe if ye wil. 
peacne ot 36 What euer thing dieth, go burie or burne, 
for tainting of ground, or a woorser il turne. 
Such pestilent smell of a carrenly thing, 
to cattle and people great peril may bring. 
aa 37 Thy measeled bacon, hog, sow, or thy bore, 
shut vp for to heale, for infecting thy store: 
Or kill it for bacon, or sowce it to sell, 
for Flemming, that loues it so deintily well. 
Strawwisps 38 With strawisp and peasebolt, with ferne and the brake, 
bolts. for sparing of fewel, some brewe and do bake, 
And heateth their copper, for seething of graines: 
good seruant rewarded, refuseth no paines. 
Olde wheat 39 Good breadcorne and drinkcorne, full xx weekes kept, 
etter than - 
new. is better then new, that at harvest is rept: 
But foisty the breadcorne and bowd eaten malt, 
for health or for profit, find noysome thou shalt. 
40! By thend of October, go gather vp sloes, 
haue thou in a readines plentie of thoes, 
And keepe them in bedstraw, or still on the bow, 
to staie both the flixe of thyselfe and thy cow. 
1 Stanza 4o is not in 1577. 
