224 A hundreth good poyntes of husbandry. 
26. The mone in the wane, gather fruit on the tree, 
the riper, the better for graffe and for thee. 
But michers, that loue not to bie nor to craue: 
make some gather sooner, els fewe should they haue. 
_27. Or winter doe come, while the weather is good: 
for gutting thy grounde, get the home with thy wood. 
Set bauen alone, lay the bowghes from the blockes : 
the drier, the les maidens dablith their dockes. 
28. For rooting thy grounde, ring thy hogges thou hast nede : 
the better thou ring them, the better they fede. 
Most times with their elders, the yong ones kepe best : 
then yoke well the great knaues, and fauour the rest. 
29. But yoke not thy swine, while thine akorne time last: 
for diuers misfortunes, that happen to fast. 
Or if thou loue eared, and vnmaimed hogges : 
giue eie to thy neighbour, and eare to his dogges. 
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30. Get vp with thy barley lande, dry as thou can : 
at March (as thou layest it) so loke for it than. 
Get euer before hande, drag neuer behinde: 
least winter beclip thee, and breake of thy minde. 
31. At Hallowmas, slaughter time sone commeth in : 
and than doth the husbande mans feasting begin. 
From that time, to Candlemas weekely kill some: 
their offal for household, the better shal come. 
32. All soules that be thursty, bid threshe out for mawlt : 
well handled and tended, or els thou dost nawlt. 
Thencrease of one strike is a pek for thy store: 
the maker is bad els, or pilfreth the more. 
33. For Easter, at Martilmas hange vp a biefe: 
for pease fed and stall fed, play pickpurse the thiefe. 
With that and fat bakon, till grasse biefe come in: 
thy folke shall loke cherely, when others loke thin. 
34. Set gardeine beanes, after saint Edmonde the king : 
the Moone in the wane, theron hangeth a thing. 
Thencrease of one gallonde, well proued of some: 
shall pleasure thy householde, ere peskod time come. 
