174 Huswiferie. 
Best dride best speedes, 
Ill kept, bowd breedes. 
5 Malt being well speered, the more it will cast, 
malt being well dried, the longer will last. 
6 Long kept in ill soller, (vndoubted thou shalt,) 
through bowds without number loose quickly thy malt. 
85. 
“| Dinner matters. 
For hunger or thirst, 
Serue cattle well first. 
Tignertmes. fl Y noone see your dinner, be readie and neate, 
let meate tarrie seruant, not seruant his meate. 
2 Plough cattle a baiting, call seruant to dinner, 
the thicker togither, the charges the thinner. 
Togither is best, 
For hostis and gest. 
3' Due season is best, altogither is gay, 
dispatch hath no fellow, make short and away. 
4 Beware of Gill laggoose, disordring thy house, 
mo dainties who catcheth, than craftie fed mouse ! 
Let such haue ynough, 
That follow the plough. 
5 Giue seruant no dainties, but giue him ynough, 
too many chaps walking, do begger the plough. 
6 Poore seggons halfe starued worke faintly and dull, 
and lubbers doo loiter, their bellies too full. 
Giue neuer too much, 
To lazie and such. 
7 Feede lazie that thresheth a flap and a tap, 
like slothfull, that all day be stopping a gap. 
8 Some litherly lubber more eateth than twoo, 
yet leaueth vndone that another will doo. 
1 Stanzas 3-12 are not in 1577. 
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