84 Fanuaries husbandrie. 
47 Let seruant be readie, with mattock in hand, 
to stub out the bushes that noieth the land : 
And cumbersome rootes, so annoieng the plough, 
turne vpward their arses with sorrow inough. 
Breaking up 48 Who breaketh vp timelie his fallow or lay, 
ay in so 
countrie. 
sets forward his husbandrie many a way. 
This trimlie well ended doth forwardly bring,’ 
not onelie thy tillage, but all other thing. 
49° Though lay land ye breke vp when Christmas is gon, 
for sowing of barlie* or otes therevpon, 
Yet hast[e] not to fallow til March be begun, 
least afterward wishing it had ben vndun. 
50” Such land as ye breake vp for barlie to sowe, 
two earthes at the least er ye sowe it bestowe.* 
If land be thereafter, set oting apart, 
and follow this lesson, to comfort thine hart. 
51 Some breaking vp laie soweth otes to begin,° 
to suck out the moisture so sower therein. 
Yet otes with hir sucking a peeler is found, 
both ill to the maister and worse to som ground. 
52 Land arable driuen or worne to the proofe, 
and® craueth some rest for thy profits behoofe. 
With otes ye may sowe it, the sooner to grasse, 
more soone to be pasture to bring it to passe. 
Thus endeth Januaries husbandrie. 
1 This tilth is a tilture, well forward doth bring. 1577. 
2 Sts. 49 and 50 are not in 1577. 
3 ‘Barley is now very rarely, if at all, sown on lay land. The fallow 
he speaks of I take to be the second ploughing for Barley.” —T.R. 1710, — 
Gervase Markham, in his Zxg/ish Husbandman, directs a digging in May, 
another, with manuring, in October, and ‘‘the last time of your digging 
and setting shall be at the beginning “of April.” 
4 «¢ Barley-Ground ought to be as fine as an Ash-heap.”—T.R. 
5 ** Where the Ground is over rich, it fines and sweetens it.”—T.R. 
6 <<It” in Zusser Redivivus. ‘‘and.” 1577. 
