26 16. How to fallow. 



broadand bcstc he Can, to plowc a brode forowe and a depe, 



^^^'^' soo that he turne it cleane, and lay it flat, that it rere 



not on the edge : the whiche shall destroy all the thistils 



8 and wedes. For the deper and the broder that he gothe, 



the more newe molde, and the greatter clottes shall he 



haue, and the greatter clottes, the better wheate. For 



the clottes kepe the wheate warme all wynter, and at 



12 Marche they wyll melte and breake, and fal in .manye 



small peces, the whiche is a newe dongynge, and re- 



[Foi.14 ■ fresshynge of the corne. And also there shall but lyttell 



misprinted jo 



i6-] wedes growe vpon the falowes, that are so falowed. For 



1 6 the plough goth vndernethe the rootes of all maner of 



wedes, and tourneth the roote vpwarde, that it maye not 



Neverfaiiow growc. And yf the lande be falowed in wynter tyme, it is 



m winter 

 else 



farre the worse, for three principall causes. One is, all the 

 (i) rain will 20 raync that commeth, shal washe the lande, and dryue 



wash the 



land; awaye the dounge and the good moulde, that the lande 



(2) rain will shall be moche the worse. An other cause is, the rayne 



^^ ' ^ ' shall beate the lande so flat, and bake it so hard to-gyther, 



24 that if a drye Maye come, it wyll be to harde to stere in 



(3)theweeds the moneth of Tune. And the thyrde cause is, the wiedes 



will take -' ^ 



deep root. shall take suche roote, er sterynge-tyme comme, that they 



wylle not be cleane tourned vndernethe, the whiche shal 



28 be great hurte to the corne, whan it shall be sowen, and 



specially in the weding-tyme of the same ; and for any 



other thynge, make a depe holowe forowe in the rydge of 



Do not rest- the lande, and loke wel, thou rest-balke it nat ; for if 



baulk. 



32 thou do, there wyll be many thystels : and than thou 

 shalte not make a cleane rydge at the fyrste sterynge, 

 and therfore it muste nedes be depe plowed, or elles 

 thou shalt nat tourne the wiedes cleane. 



