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83. 
Washing. 
Take heede when ye wash, 
Else run in the lash. 
I \ AIDS, wash well and wring well, but beat ye wot how, washing. 
if any lack beating, I feare it be yow. 
2 In washing by hand, haue an eie to thy boll, 
for launders and millers, be quick of their toll. 
Drie sunne, drie winde, 
Safe binde, safe finde. 
3 Go wash well, saith Sommer, with sunne I shall drie, 
go wring well, saith Winter, with winde so shall I. 
4 To trust without heede is to venter a ioint, 
giue tale and take count, is a huswifelie point. 
Where many be packing, 
Are manie things lacking. 
5 Where hens fall a cackling, take heede to their nest, 
where drabs fall a whispring, take heede to the rest. 
6 Through negligent huswifes, are many things lacking, 
and Gillet suspected will quickly be packing. 
84. 
Matting. 
Ill malting is theft, 
Wood dride hath a weft. 
I OUSE may be so handsome, and skilfulnes such, Mattines 
to make thy owne malt, it shall profit thee much. 
2 Som drieth with strawe, and some drieth with wood, 
wood asketh more charge, and nothing so good. 
Take heede to the kell, 
Sing out as a bell. 
3 Be suer no chances to fier can drawe, 
the wood, or the furzen, the brake or the strawe. 
4 Let Gillet be singing, it doth verie well, 
to keepe hir from sleeping and burning the kell. 
