Nouembers husbandrie. WA 
10 As cat a good mouser is needfull in house, 
because for hir commons she killeth the mouse, 
So rauening curres, as a meany doo keepe, 
makes master want meat, and his dog to kill sheepe. 
11 (For Easter) at Martilmas hang vp a beefe, boat 
for stalfed and pease fed plaie pickpurse the theefe : 
With that and the like, er an grasse biefe come in, 
thy folke shal looke cheerelie when others looke thin. 
12 Set garlike and beanes, at S. Edmond?’ the king, q 
the moone in the wane, thereon hangeth a thing: Bee puke, 
Thencrease of a pottle (well prooued of some) 
shal pleasure thy houshold er peskod time come. 
13 When raine is a let to thy dooings abrode, Threshing. 
set threshers a threshing to laie on good lode: 
Thresh cleane ye must bid them, though lesser they yarn, 
and looking to thriue, haue an eie to thy barne. 
14 Take heede to thy man in his furie and heate, cae 
with ploughstaff and whipstock, for maiming thy neate: 
To thresher for hurting of cow with his flaile, 
or making thy hen to plaie tapple vp taile. 
15 Some pilfering thresher will walke with a staffe, Geren 
will carrie home corne as it is in the chaffe, 
And some in his bottle of leather so great 
will carry home daily both barlie and wheat. 
16 If houseroome will serue thee, lay stouer vp drie, Kéepe dry 
thy straw. 
and euerie sort by it selfe for to lie. 
Or stack it for litter, if roome be too poore, 
and thatch out the residue noieng thy doore.* 
' 20th November. 
* “The rest may lie in the open Yard, for the Cattle to tread into Dung, 
which is the practice now a days, so that our Farmers are not so afraid of 
ee their Doors it seems as formerly, and that not without good reason.” 
