104 Aprils husbandrie. 
2 If April be dripping, then doo I not hate, 
(for him that hath little) his fallowing late, 
Else otherwise fallowing timelie is best, 
for sauing of cattel, of plough and the rest. 
3 Be suer of plough to be readie at hand, 
er compas ye spred that on hillocks did stand: 
Least drieing so lieing, doo make it decaie, 
er euer much water doo wash it awaie. 
4 Looke now to prouide ye of meadow for hay, 
if fennes be vndrowned, there cheapest ye may.’ 
In fen for the bullock, for horse not so well, 
count best the best cheape, wheresoeuer ye dwell. 
5 Prouide ye of cowmeate, for cattel at night, 
and chiefly where commons lie far out of sight: 
Where cattel lie tied without any meat, 
that profit by dairie can neuer be great. 
Put poles to 6 Get into thy hopyard with plentie of poles, 
your hophils. 
amongst those same hillocks deuide them by doles. 
Three poles to a hillock? (I pas not how long)? 
shall yeeld thee more profit, set deeplie and strong. 
Heliing of 7 Sell barke to the tanner er timber yee fell, 
cut lowe by the ground? or else doo ye not well. 
In breaking® saue crooked, for mill and for ships, 
and euer in hewing saue carpenters chips. 
1 “Now ye may see what medows are well laid up, and what not, and 
accordingly chuse your ground.”—T.R. 
2 “*T suppose in our Author’s time they made the Hills less than they do 
now.’—T.R. 1710. 
3 “*Overpoling (especially in height) is worse than underpoling.”—T.R. 
4 «Six inches at the but may be more worth than two foot in another 
part.” —T.R. 
5 **Sawing out ; it being called breaking-up by workmen in those parts 
near where our Author lived.”—T.R. 
