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A hundreth good poyntes of husbandry. 
At Christmas be mery, and thanke god of all: 
and feast thy pore neighbours, the great with the small. 
yea al the yere long, haue an eie to the poore: 
and god shall sende luck, to kepe open thy doore. 
Good fruite and good plenty, doth well in thy loft: 
then lay for an orcharde, and cherishe it oft. 
The profet is mickell, the pleasure is mutch ; 
at pleasure with profet, few wise men will grutch. 
For plantes and for stockes, lay afore hand to cast : 
but set or remoue them, while twelue tide doe last. 
Set one from another, full twenty fote square: 
the better and greater, they yerely will bare. 
q] Januarp. 
When Christmas is done, kepe not Christmas time still : 
be mindefull of rering, and loth for to kill. 
For then, what thou rerist thou nede not to dout: 
will double thy gaine, ere the yere come about. 
Be gredy to spende all, and careles to saue: 
and shortly be nedy, and redy to craue. 
be wilfull to kill, and vnskilfull to store : 
and sone giue vp houskeping, longe any more. 
Thy calues then, that come betwene new yere and lent: 
saue gladly for store, lest thou after repent. 
For all thing at that time, that colde feleth some: 
shall better beare colde, when the next winter come. 
Weane no time thy calfe, vnder xl daies olde: 
and lay for to saue it, as thou sauest golde. 
yet calues that doe fal, betwene change and the prime: 
pas seldome to rere them, but kill them in time. 
For stores of thy swine, be thou carefull betwix : 
of one sow at one time, rere seldome past six. 
The fewe that she kepe, much the better shal bee: 
of all thing, one good is worth steruelinges three. 
. Geld vnder the dame, within fornight at least: 
and saue both thy money, and life of the beast. 
But gelde with the gelder, as many one doe: 
and of halfe a dosen, go geld away two. 
