Count store 
no sore. 
q 
Weeding. 
Il wéeds. 
Sowing of 
branke. 
II 
IZ 
Meaies husbandrie. 
Keepe threshing for thresher, til Maie be come in, 
to haue to be suer fresh chaffe in the bin. 
And somewhat to scamble, for hog and for hen, 
and worke when it raineth for loitering men. 
Be sure of haie and of prouender some, 
for labouring cattel til pasture be come. 
And if ye doo mind to haue nothing to sterue, 
haue one thing or other, for all thing to serue. 
Ground compassed wel and a following’ yeare, 
(if wheat or thy barlie too ranke doo appeare) 
Now eat it with sheepe or else mowe it ye may, 
for ledging, and so, to the birds for a pray. 
In Maie get a weede hooke, a crotch and a gloue, 
and weed out such weedes as the corne doth not loue: 
For weeding of winter corne now it is best, 
but June is the better for weeding the rest. 
The May weed doth burn and the thistle doth freat, 
the fitchis? pul downward, both rie and the wheat. 
The brake and the cockle be noisome too much, 
yet like vnto boddle no weede there is such. 
Slack neuer thy weeding, for dearth nor for cheape, 
the corne shall reward it er euer ye reape. 
And specially where ye doo trust for to seede,® 
let that be well vsed, the better to speede. 
In Maie is good sowing, thy buck or thy branke, 
that black is as pepper, and smelleth so ranke. 
It is to thy land, as a comfort or muck, 
and al thing it maketh as fat as a buck. 
LeSee mote ssp nA. 
2 ““or, as some call it, the Tine-tare.”—T.R. 
5 to for seed. 1577. 
