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Now! sets doe craue 
some wéeding to haue. 
Now draine as ye like 
both fen and dike. 
Watch bées in May, 
for swarming away. 
Both now and in June, 
marke maister bées tune. 
Twifallow thy land, 
least plough else stand. 
No longer tarrie, 
out compas to carrie. 
Where néede doth pray it, 
there sée ye lay it. 
Set Jack and Jone 
to gather vp stone. 
To grasse with thy calues, 
take nothing to halues. 
Be suer thy neat 
haue water and meat. 
By tainting of ground, 
destruction is found. 
Now carrege get 
home fewell to fet. 
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Mates abstract. 
Tell fagot and billet 
for filching gillet. 
In sommer for firing 
let citie be buying. 
Marke colliers packing 
least coles be lacking. 
(Sée opened sack) 
for two in a pack. 
Let nodding patch 
go sléepe a snatch. 
Wife as® you will, 
now plie your still. 
Fine bazell? sowe, 
in a pot to growe. 
Fine séedes sowe now, 
before ye sawe how. 
Kéepe ox from cow, 
for causes ynow. 
Thus endeth Maies abstract, 
agréeing with Maies husbandrie. 
{ Two other short remem- 
brances. 
[36] From bull cow fast 
till Crowchmas* be past. 
From heifer bul hid thée 
till Lammas? doth bidthée. 
Here ends Maies short remembrances. 
*,* Sts. 14, 15, 19, are not in 1577. 
New. 1577. aye 
Saint Helens daie (s7de xofe). 
1577: 
3 Bezell. 1577. 
5 August (szde note). 
