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* Maies abstract. 
Chap. 39. 
UT lambe from eawe, 11 For corne here réede, 
1) 
to milke a feawe. 
Be not too bold, 
to milke and to fold. 
Fiue eawes alow, 
to euerie cow. 
Shéepe wrigling taile 
hath mads without faile. 
Beat hard in the réede 
where house hath néede. 
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Leaue cropping from May 
to Mihelmas day. 
Let Iuie be killed, 
else trée will be spilled. 
Now threshers warne 
to rid the barne. 
Be suer of hay 
till thend of May. 
Let shéepe fill flanke, 
where corne is too ranke. 
In woodland leuer,! 
in champion neuer. 
To wéeding away, 
as soone as yée may. 
1 euer. 
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2 now take out fine. 
what naughtie wéede. 
Who wéeding slacketh, 
good husbandrie lacketh. 
Sowe buck or branke, 
that smels so ranke. 
Thy branke go and sowe, 
where barlie did growe. 
The next crop wheat 
is husbandrie neat. 
Sowe pescods some, 
for haruest to come. 
Sowe hemp and flacks, 
that spinning lacks. 
Teach hop to clime, 
for now it is time. 
Through fowles & wéedes 
poore hop ill spéedes. 
Cut off or crop 
superfluous hop: 
The titters or tine 
makes hop to pine.? 
Some raketh their wheat, 
with rake that is great. 
So titters and tine 
be gotten out fine. 
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