Augusts husbandrie. 135 
44 Be mindfull abrode of Mihelmas? spring, Hauking. 
for thereon dependeth a husbandlie thing: 
Though some haue a pleasure, with hauke vpon hand, 
good husbands get treasure, to purchase their land. 
45 Thy market dispatched, turne home againe round, Wnieoe 
least gaping for penie, thou loosest* a pound: 
Prouide for thy wife, or else looke to be shent, 
good milch cow for winter, another for Lent. 
46 In traueling homeward, buie fortie good crones, Old ewes. 
and fat vp the bodies of those seelie bones. 
Leaue milking and drie vp old mulley thy cow, 
the crooked and aged, to fatting put now. 
47° At Bartilmewtide, or at Sturbridge faire, Bee 
buie that as is needfull, thy house to repaire : butter and 
chéese. 
Then sell to thy profit, both butter and cheese, 
who buieth it sooner, the more he shall leese. 
48 If hops doo looke brownish, then are ye too slowe, aE 
if longer ye suffer those hops for to growe. 
Now sooner ye gather, more profit is found, 
if weather be faire and deaw of a ground. 
49 Not breake off, but cut off, from hop the hop string, ieee 
5 0 6 , of hops. 
leaue growing a little againe for to spring. 
Whose hill about pared, and therewith new clad, 
shall nourish more sets against March to be had. 
50 Hop hillock discharged of euerie let, The order of 
c 5 hops gather- 
see then without breaking, ech pole ye out get. ing. 
Which being vntangled aboue in the tops, 
go carrie to such as are plucking of hops. 
1 Mighelmas. 1577. 2 lossest. 1577. 
8 Sts. 47-54 occur as sts. 49-56 of Septembers Husbandry. 1577. 
