Beware of 
euill shéepe 
shearers. 
Sheare 
lambes in 
Julie. 
Mowing 
time. 
Trim well 
thy carts. 
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Funes husbandrie. 
2 Reward not thy sheepe (when ye take off his cote) 
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with twitchis and patches, as brode as a grote. 
Let not such vngentlenesse happen to thine, 
least flie with hir gentils doo make it to pine. 
Let lambes go vnclipped, till June be halfe worne, 
the better the fleeses will growe to be shorne. 
The Pie will discharge thee for pulling the rest: 
the lighter the sheepe is, then feedeth it best. 
If meadow be forward, be mowing of some; 
but mowe as the makers may well ouercome: 
Take heede to the weather, the wind and the skie, 
if danger approcheth, then cock apace crie. 
Plough earlie till ten a clock, then to thy hay, 
in plowing and carting, so profit ye may. 
By little and little, thus dooing ye win: 
that plough shall not hinder when haruest comes in. 
Prouide of thine owne to haue all things at hand, 
least worke and the workman vnoccupide stand. 
Loue seldome to borowe that thinkest to saue, 
for he that once lendeth twise looketh to haue. 
Let cart be well searched without and within, 
well clouted and greased, er hay time begin. 
Thy hay being carried, though carter had sworne, 
carts bottome well boorded is sauing of corne. 
Good husbands that laie to saue all things vpright, 
for tumbrels and cart, haue a shed readie dight. 
Where vnder the hog may in winter lie warme: 
to stand so enclosed, as wind doo no harme. 
