Marches husbandrie. IOI 
23 Time faire, to sowe or to gather be bold, q 
but set or remooue when the weather is cold.’ 
Cut all thing or gather, the Moone in the wane, 
but sowe in encreasing, or giue it his bane. 
24 Now set doo aske watering with pot or with dish, g 
new sowne doo not so, if ye doo as I wish. 
Through cunning with dible, rake, mattock, and spade, 
by line and by leauell, trim garden is made. 
25 Who soweth too lateward, hath seldome good seed, 
who soweth too soone, little better shall speed. 
Apt time and the season so diuers to hit, 
let aier and laier® helpe practise and wit. 
26° Now leekes are in season, for pottage full good, { 
and spareth the milchcow and purgeth the blood. 
These hauing, with peason for pottage in Lent, 
thou sparest both otemell and bread to be spent. 
27° Though neuer so much a good huswife doth care, q 
that such as doe labour haue husbandlie fare. 
Yet feed them and cram them til purse doe lack chinke, 
no spoone meat, no bellifull, labourers thinke. 
28 Kill crowe, pie and cadow, rooke, buzard and rauen, pes 
or else go desire them to seeke a new hauen. eee 
In scaling the yoongest, to pluck off his beck, 
beware how ye climber, for breaking your neck. 
Thus endeth Marches husbandrie. 
1 << There is an old Sawe to this purpose : 
‘In Gard@’ning never this Rule forget, 
To Sow dry, and Set wet.’”—T.R. 
2 “By Azer I understand Situation, Weather, etc..... By Lazer, 
Composition, the Nature of the Soil, Heart of the Land, etc.”—T.R. 
3 Sts. 26 and 27 are not in 1577; but instead— 
Good peason and leekes, to make porredge in lent, 
and pescods in July, saue fish to be spent. 
Those hauing with other things plentifull than, 
thou winnest the hart of the labouring man. 
