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5 Then downe with the hedlonds, that groweth about, 
leaue neuer a dallop vamowne and had out. 
Though grasse be but thin, about barlie and pease, 
yet picked vp cleane ye shall find therein ease. 
6 Thry fallow betime, for destroieng of weede, asia 
least thistle and duck? fall a blooming and seede, 
Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon, 
to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon. 
7 Not rent? off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife, q 
for hindering stalke of hir vegetiue life. Gathering 
of garden 
So gather the lowest, and leauing the top, beanes- 
shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop. 
8 Wife, pluck fro thy seed hemp the fiemble hemp clene, q 
this looketh more yellow, the other more grene: See 
Vse ton for thy spinning, leaue Mihel the tother, Benge: 
for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other. 
9° Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin, q 
first see it dried, and timelie got in. 
And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie, 
and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie. 
10 While wormwood hath seed, get a handful or twaine, q 
to saue against March to make flea to refraine: Wionsea 
Where chamber is sweeped, and wormwood is strowne, against | 
no flea for his life dare abide to be knowne. infection: 
11* What sauer is better (if physick be true), 
for places infected, than wormwood and rue. 
It is as a comfort for hart-and the braine, 
and therefore to haue it, it is not in vaine. 
Wdock= 11577. 2 rend. 1573 (M.), 1577. 
3 St. 9 wanting in 1577. 4 St. 11 wanting in 1577. 
