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“| Marches abstract. 
Chap. 35. 
HITE peason sowe, 
scare hungry crow. 
Spare meadow for hay, 
spare marshes at May. 
3' Kéepe shéepe from dog, 
ON 
wo 
kéepe lambes from hog. 
If foxes mowse? them, 
7 
then watch or howse them. 
March drie or wet, 
hop ground go set. 
Yoong rootes well drest 
prooue euer * best. 
Grant hop great hill 
to growe at will. 
From hop long gut 
away go cut. 
Here learne the way 
hop rootes to lay. 
Rootes best to prooue, 
thus set I looue. 
Leaue space and roome, 
to hillock to coome. 
Of hedge and willow 
hop makes his* pillow. 
Good bearing hop 
climes vp to the top. 
Kéepe hop from sunne, 
and hop is vndunne. 
Hop tooles procure 
that may endure. 
Iron crowe like a stake, 
déepe hole to make. 
A scraper to pare 
the earth about bare. 
A hone to raise roote, 
like sole of a boote. 
Sharpe knife to cut 
superfluous gut. 
Who graffing looues, 
now graffing prooues. 
Of euerie suite, 
graffe daintie fruite. 
Graffe good fruite all, 
or graffe not at all. 
St. 3, first couplet, What champion useth 
woodland refuseth. 
1573 (M.); mowse. 
mouth them. 
the. 1573, 1577. 
1577- 
1577- 
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