Mowe 
downe 
brakes and 
meadow. 
Mowe hed- 
londs at 
haruest or 
after in the 
seueral 
fields. 
Naught 
for hops. 
Good for 
hops. 
Si 
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19 
21 
Funes husbandrie. 
At Midsommer, downe with the brembles and brakes, 
and after, abrode with thy forks and thy rakes: 
Set mowers a mowing, where meadow is growne, 
the longer now standing the worse to be mowne. 
Now downe with the grasse vpon hedlonds about, 
that groweth in shadow, so ranke and so stout. 
But grasse vpon hedlond of barlie and pease, 
when haruest is ended, go mowe if ye please. 
Such muddie deepe ditches, and pits in the feeld, 
that all a drie sommer no water will yeeld, 
By fieing and casting that mud vpon heapes, 
commodities many the husbandman reapes. 
AA lesson where and when to plant 
good Hopyard. 
Whome fancie persuadetb, among other crops, 
to haue for his spending, sufficient of hops, 
Must willinglie follow, of choises to chuse, 
such lessons approoued, as skilfull doo vse. 
Ground grauellie, sandie, and mixed with clay, 
is naughtie for hops any maner of way; 
Or if it be mingled with rubbish and stone, 
for drines and barrennes, let it alone. 
Choose soile for the hop of the rottenest mould, 
well doonged and wrought, as a garden plot should: 
Not far from the water (but not ouerflowne) 
this lesson well noted is meete to be knowne. 
