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8 First see it well fenced er hewers begin, 
then see it well stadled,! without and within ; 
Thus being preserued and husbandlie donne, 
shall sooner raise profit, to thee or thy sonne. 
Stadling of 
woods. 
g Leaue growing for stadles the likest and best, 
though seller and buier dispatched the rest. 
In bushes, in hedgerowe, in groue, and in wood, 
this lesson obserued is needfull and good. 
10 Saue elme, ash and crabtree, for cart and for plough, 
saue step for a stile, of the crotch of the bough. 
Saue hazel for forks, saue sallow for rake, 
saue huluer? and thorne, thereof flaile for to make. 
11 Make riddance of carriage, er yeere go about, Discharge 
ae : : thy woods. 
for spoiling of plant that is newlie come out. 
To carter (with oxen) this message I bring, 
leaue oxen abrode® for anoieng the spring. 
124 Allowance of fodder some countries doo yeeld, 
as good for the cattel as haie in the feeld. 
Some mowe vp their hedlonds® and plots among corne, 
and driuen to leaue nothing, vamowne, or vnshorne. 
13 Some commons are barren, the nature is such, 
and some ouer laieth the common too much. 
The pestered commons small profit doth geeue, 
and profit as little some reape I beleeue. 
1 “To stadle a Wood is to leave at certain distances a sufficient number 
of young Trees to replenish it.” —T.R. 
2 *‘or Holly . . . . heavy enough for flail swingels.”—T.R. 
3 T.R. reads ‘‘leave not oxe abroad,” and explains spring to mean the 
young buds of felled underwood. 
+ Sts. 12 to 18 are not in 1577. 
5 “‘The laying of headlands for grass is frequently used in Norfolk to 
this day.”—T.R. 1710. 
