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A hundreth good poyntes of husbandry. 
{| August. 
. When haruest is done, all thing placed and set, 
for saultfishe and herring, then laie for to get: 
The byeng of them, comming first vnto rode, 
shal pay for thy charges, thou spendest abrode. 
. Thy saultfishe well chosen, not burnt at the stone, 
or drye them thyselfe, (hauing skill is a lone:) 
Brought salfe to thy house, would be packed vp drie, 
with pease strawe betweene, least it rot as it lie. 
. Or euer thou ride, with thy seruauntes compound, 
to carry thy muckhilles, on thy barley ground : 
One aker wel compast, is worth akers three, 
at haruest, thy barne shall declare it to thee. 
. This good shalt thou learne, with thy riding about, 
the prises of thinges, all the yere thoroughout : 
And what time is best, for to sell that thou haue, 
and how for to bye, to be likely to saue. 
. For bying and selling, doth wonderfull well, 
to him that hath wit, how to by and to sell : 
But chopping and chaungeing, may make such a breck, 
that gone is thy winninges, for sauing thy neck. 
The riche man, his bargaines are neuer vnsought, 
the seller will fynde him, he nede not take thought : 
But herein consisteth, a part of our text, 
who byeth at first hand, and who at the next. 
. He byeth at first hand, that ventreth his golde, 
he byeth at second, that dare not be bolde: 
He byeth at third hand, that nedes borrow must, 
who byeth of him, than shall pay for his lust. 
. When euer thou bargain, for better or wurse, 
let alway one bargain, remain in thy purse: 
Good credit doth well, but good credit to kepe, 
is pay and dispatche him, or euer thou slepe. 
Be mindeful abrode, of thy Mighelmas spring, 
for theron dependeth, a marueilous thing: 
Whez gentiles vse walking, with hawkes on their handes, 
Good husbandes, with grasing doe purchase their landes. 
