Mates husbandrie. III 
51. 
“| Maies husbandrie. 
Chap. 40. 
Cold Maie and windie, Forgotten month past, 
Barne filleth vp finelie. Doe now at the last. 
I T Philip and Jacob, away with the lams Haren ud 
that thinkest to haue any milke of their dams. 
At Lammas leaue milking, for feare of a thing: 
least (requiem eternam) in winter they sing. 
2 To milke and to fold them is much to require, oeemat oes 
except yee haue pasture to fil their desire. 
Yet manie by milking (such heede they doo take), 
not hurting their bodies much profit doo make. 
3 Fiue eawes to a cow, make a proofe by a score, q 
shall double thy dairie, else trust me no more. 
Yet may a good huswife that knoweth the skill, 
haue mixt and vnmixt at hir pleasure and will. 
4 If sheepe or thy lambe fall a wrigling with taile, 
go by and by search it, whiles helpe may preuaile: 
That barberlie handled I dare thee assure, 
cast dust in his arse, thou hast finisht thy cure. 
On 
Where houses be reeded? (as houses haue neede), 
now pare off the mosse, and go beat in the reed. 
The iuster ye driue it, the smoother and plaine, 
more handsome ye make it to shut off the raine. 
6 From Maie til October leaue cropping, for why ? Banach 
in wood sere, whatsoeuer thou croppest wil dy. 
Where luie imbraceth the tree verie sore, Destroie 
. Luie. 
kill Iuie, or else tree wil addle no more. 
1 “*Reeding is no where so well done as in Norfolk and Suffolk. .... 
It will bear a better slope than any other thatch.”—T.R. 
