234 A lundreth good poyntes of husbandry. 
December bid Christmas, to spende what he please: 
So wisdom bid kepe, and prouide while we may : 
For age crepeth on as the time passeth away. 
Finis. 
Thinges thriftie, that teacheth the thriuing to thriue ; 
teache timely to trauas, the thing that thou triue. 
Transferring thy toyle, to the times truely tought: 
that teacheth the temperaunce, to temper thy thought. 
To temper thy trauaile, to tarrye the tide: 
this teacheth the thriftines, twenty times tride. 
Thinke truely to trauaile, that thinkest to thee : 
the trade that thy teacher taught truely to the. 
Take thankfully thinges, thanking tenderly those: 
that teacheth thee thriftly, thy time to transpose. 
The trouth teached two times, teache thou two times ten : 
this trade thou that takest, take thrift to the then. 
q imprinted at London in flete strete 
within Cemple barre, at the spqne of the 
Hand and starre, by Richard Cottel, 
the thirn bay of February, An. 1557, 
Cum priuilegio ad impri- 
mendum solume. 
