Augusts husbandrie. 129 
4 In hauing but fortie foote workmanly dight, q 
take saffron ynough for a Lord and a knight. Huswiferie. 
All winter time alter! as practise doth teach, 
what plot haue ye better, for linnen to bleach.’? 
5° Maides, mustard seede gather, for being too ripe, q 
and weather it well, er ye giue it a stripe :* 
Then dresse it and laie it in soller vp sweete, 
least foistines make it for table vnmeete. 
6° Good huswifes in sommer will saue their owne seedes, q 
against the next yeere, as occasion needes. 
One seede for another, to make an exchange, 
with fellowlie neighbourhood seemeth not strange. 
7 Make sure of reapers, get haruest in hand, Come. 
the corne that is ripe, doo® but shed as it stand. 
Be thankfull to God, for his benefits sent, 
and willing to saue it with earnest intent. 
8 To let out thy haruest, by great? or by day, ee 
let this by experience leade thee a way. ree: 
By great will deceiue thee, with lingring it out, 
by day will dispatch, and put all out of dout. 
g Grant haruest lord® more by a penie or twoo, 
to call on his fellowes the better to doo: 
Giue gloues to thy reapers,° a larges to crie, 
and dailie to loiterers haue a good eie. 
1 after. 1577. 
* “*Saffron makes a very good Sward, whereon Linnen may lye hollow 
and bleach well enough.” —T.R. 
3 Stanza 5 is wanting in 1573 (M.) and 1577. 
4 «* Beating it upon a Hurdle or some other rough thing.”—T.R. 
5 St. 6 is wanting in 1573 (M.) and 1577. 
® doth. 1614. 
7 “*Our Author is justly against letting Harvest by the great, for who- 
ever does will certainly find himself cheated or slighted.” —T.R. 
* “Some stay’d sober working man, who understands all sorts of Harvest 
Work.”—T.R. Cf. Matt. ix. 38. 
* “* Where the Wheat is thistly.”—T.R. 
