98 Marches husbandrie. 
3 Of mastiues and mungrels, that manie we see, 
a number of thousands too manie there bee. 
a ent Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke, 
aue an ey : ; 
ice for dogs will haue vittles,’ by hooke or by crooke. 
pene of 4 In March at the furdest, drie season or wet, 
hop rootes so well chosen, let skilfull go set. 
The goeler® and yonger the better I loue; 
well gutted* and pared, the better they proue. 
5 Some laieth them croswise, along in the ground, 
as high as the knee they doo couer vp round. 
Some prick vp a stick in the mids of the same, 
that little round hillock the better to frame. 
6 Some maketh a hollownes, halfe a foot deepe, 
with fower sets in it, set slant wise a steepe: 
One foot from another, in order to lie, 
and thereon a hillock, as round as a pie. 
7 Five foot from another ech hillock would stand, 
as straight as a leaueled line with the hand. 
Let euerie hillock be fower foot wide, 
the better to come to on euerie side. 
8 By willowes that groweth thy hopyard without, 
and also by hedges thy meadowes about. 
Good hop hath a pleasure to climbe and to spred, 
if Sunne may haue passage to comfort hir hed. 
Hop tools. g Get crowe made of iron, deepe hole for to make, 
with crosse ouerthwart it, as sharpe as a stake. 
A hone‘ and a parer, like sole of a boote,° 
to pare away grasse and to raise vp the roote. 
1 In Lent, dog’s meat was scarce, and ‘‘a mort Lamb now and then was 
very apt to whet their appetite for Mutton.”—T.R. 
2 goeler. 1577. goodlier. 1614. ‘‘The goeler is the yellower, which 
are the best setts, old roots being red.”—T.R. 
3 * Well taken off from the old Roots.” —T.R. 
4 ¢¢ A common Rubber or Whetstone.”—T.R. 
5 ‘‘The best, in my minde, are those triangular ones used by the Fen 
men and Bankers.” —T.R. 1710. 
