88 Februaries husbandrie. 
4 Sowe peason and beanes in the wane of the Moone,’ 
who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soone. 
That they with the planet may rest and arise, 
and flourish with bearing most plentifull wise. 
5 Friend, harrow in time, by some maner of meanes, 
not onely thy peason, but also thy beanes. 
Unharrowed die, being buried in clay, 
where harrowed florish, as flowers in May. 
6 Both peason and beanes sowe afore ye doo plow,” 
the sooner ye harrow, the better for yow.° 
White peason so good for the purse and the pot: 
let them be well vsed else well doo ye not. 
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Haue eie vnto haruest what euer ye sowe, 
for feare of mischances, by riping too slowe. 
Least corne be destroied, contrarie to right, 
by hogs or by cattel, by day or by night.* 
8 Good prouender labouring horses would haue, 
good haie and good plentie, plow oxen doo craue. 
To hale out the muck and to plow vp thy ground: 
or else it may hinder thee many a pound. 
g Who slacketh his tillage, a carter to bee, 
for grote got abrode, at home lose shall three. 
And so by his dooing he brings out of hart 
both land for the corne and horse for the cart. 
1 <«* Pease and Beans sown during the Increase do run more to Hawm or 
Straw, and during the Declension more to Cod, according to the common 
consent of country men. And I must own I have experienced it; but I 
will not aver it so as that it is not lyable to exceptions.”—T.R. 
2 «*This is called sowing under furrow, just before the second ploughing, 
which if neatly done lays them in rows.” —T.R. 
3 “* Because if they lye until they are swell’d the horse-footing is apt to 
endanger them.”—T.R. 
4 «© This regards Field Land ; for in our Author’s time Enclosures were 
not so frequent as now.” —T.R. 1710. 
