Instructions to Huswiferie. 165 
Who careles doe liue, 
Occasion doe giue. 
15 Haue euerie where a respect to thy waies, 
that none of thy life any slander may raies. 
16 What many doo knowe, though a time it be hid, 
at length will abrode, when a mischiefe shall bid. 
No neighbour reprooue, 
Doe so to haue looue. 
17 The loue of thy neighbour shall stand thee in steede, 
the poorer, the gladder, to helpe at a neede. 
18 Vse friendly thy neighbour, else trust him in this, 
as he hath thy friendship, so trust vnto his. 
@ Strike nothing vnknowne, 
Take heede to thine owne. 
19 Reuenge not thy wrath vpon any mans beast, 
least thine by like malice be bid to like feast. 
20 What husband prouideth with monie his drudge, 
the huswife must looke to, which waie it doth trudge. 
74. 
A digression. 
[1] OW, out of the matter, this lesson I ad, 
concerning cock crowing, what profit is had. 
Experience teacheth, as true as a clock: 
how winter night passeth, by marking the cock. 
[2] Cock croweth at midnight, times few aboue six, 
with pause to his neighbour, to answere betwix. 
At three a clock thicker, and then as ye knowe, 
like all in to Mattens, neere daie they doo crowe. 
[3] At midnight, at three, and an hower ere day, 
they vtter their language, as well as they may. 
Which who so regardeth what counsell they giue, 
will better loue crowing, as long as they liue. 
Cocke 
crowing. 
