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15 Lop popler and sallow, elme, maple, and prie, as 
well saued from cattle, till Sommer to lie. soft wood. 
So far as in lopping, their tops ye doo fling, 
so far without planting yoong copie will spring. 
16' Such fewell as standing a late ye haue bought, 
now fell it, and make it, and doo as ye ought. 
Giue charge to the hewers (that many things mars), 
to hew out for crotches, for poles, and for spars. 
17 If hopyard or orchard ye mind for to haue, gE: 
for hoppoles and crotches in lopping go saue. crotches. 
Which husbandlie spared may serue at a push, 
and stop by so hauing two gaps with a bush. 
18 From Christmas, till May be well entered in, 
some cattle waxe faint, and looke poorely and thin. 
And cheefly when prime grasse? at first doth appeere, 
then most is the danger of all the whole yeere. 
19 Take vergis and heate it, a pint for a cow, eyuetigon 
bay salt a hand full,? to rub tong ye wot how. cattell. 
That done, with the salt, let hir drinke off the rest: 
this manie times raiseth the feeble vp best. 
20 Poore bullock with browsing and naughtily fed, SE 
oose tee 
scarce feedeth, hir teeth be so loose in hir hed: in a bullock. 
Then slise ye the taile where ye feele it so soft, 
with soote and with garlike bound to it aloft.’ 
1 St. 16 is not in 1577. 
2 ««Prime Grass appears commonly in woody moist Grounds, on Hedge 
Banks, and is so called from its earliness ; when Cattle have tasted this they 
begin to loath their dry food. It is often sprung before Caxdlemas.”—T.R. 
3 fulla hand. 1577. 
4 «This remedy still is in Practice. . . . The first indication of corrupt 
blood is from the staring Hairs on the Tail near the Rump. Some in- 
stead of Soot and Garlick put a Dock Root, or the Root of a Bears Foot, 
which they call a Gargat Root, others flay the Dewlaps to the very 
Shoulders.”—T.R. 
