Thry fallow- 
ing. 
Mowing of 
brakes. 
Paring of 
saffron. 
128 Augusts abstract. 
Hops dried in loft, 
aske tendance oft. 
And shed their séedes, 
much more than néedes.’_—55 
54 Hops dride small cost, 
ill kept halfe lost. 
57. 
Hops quickly? be spilt, 
take héede if thou wilt. 
Some come, some go, 
This life is so. 
Thus endeth Augusts abstract, 
agreeing with Augusts 
bandrie. 
“| Augusts husbandrie. 
Dry August and warme, 
Doth haruest no harme. 
Chap. 46. 
Forgotten month past, 
Doe now at the last. 
I HRY fallow once ended, go strike by and by, 
both wheat land and barlie, and so let it ly. 
And as ye haue leisure, go compas the same, 
when vp ye doo lay it, more fruitfull to frame. 
2 Get downe with thy brakes, er an showers doo come, 
that cattle the better may pasture haue some. 
In June and in August, as well doth appeere, 
is best to mowe brakes, of all times in the yeere. 
3 Pare saffron betweene the two S. Maries daies, 
or set or go shift it, that knowest the waies. 
What yeere shall I doo it (more profit to yeeld ?) 
the fourth in garden, the third in the feeld. 
! The third couplet is omitted in 1577. 
2 soone. 
1577. 
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