Euerie 
wéeke rid 
thy barne 
flower. 
Digging of 
hedlonds. 
Trenching 
of garden. 
Clensing 
of priuies. 
Sootie 
chimneyes. 
Put horse 
into stable. 
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Nouembers husbandrie. 
Cause weekly thy thresher to make vp his flower, 
though slothfull and pilferer thereat doo lower: 
Take tub for a season, take sack for a shift, 
yet garner for graine is the better for thrift. 
All maner of strawe that is scattered in yard, 
good husbandlie husbands haue daily regard, 
In pit full of water the same to bestowe, 
where lieng to rot, thereof profit may growe. 
Now plough vp thy hedlond,' or delue it with spade, 
where otherwise profit but little is made: 
And cast it vp high, vpon hillocks to stand, 
that winter may rot it, to compas thy land. 
If garden requier it, now trench it ye may, 
one trench not a yard from another go lay: 
Which being well filled with muck by and by, 
go couer with mould for a season to ly. 
Foule priuies are now to be clensed and fide, 
let night be appointed such baggage to hide: 
Which buried in garden, in trenches alowe, 
shall make very many things better to growe. 
The chimney all sootie would now be made cleene, 
for feare of mischances, too oftentimes seene: 
Old chimney and sootie, if fier once take, 
by burning and breaking, soone mischeefe may make. 
When ploughing is ended, and pasture not great, 
then stable thy horses, and tend them with meat: 
Let season be drie when ye take them to house, 
for danger of nittes, or for feare of a louse. 
1 T.R. thinks that here is meant ‘‘such Ground in Common Field-land, 
which the whole Shot (or parcel of Land belonging to many Men against 
which it lies) turn upon.” 
