19. Ho%v to carry wood. 29 



hurdels nor shepe-flekes : but howe ye shall salue them Use no 



^ -^ hurdles. 



36 or dresse them, ye shall vnderstande in the chaypter of 

 shepe after. 



19. ^ To cary wodde and other necessaryes. 

 And in May, whan thou hast falowed thy srrounde, and 1° May 



carry wood. 



set cute thy shepefolde, and car}'ed oute thy dounge or 

 mucke, if thou haue any wodde, cole, or tymbre to 

 4 cary, or suche other busynes, that muste nedes be doone, 

 with thy charte or wayne, than is it tyme to do it. For 

 than the waye is lyke to be fayre and dr}e, and the days The days are 

 longe, and that tyme the husbande hath leeste to doo in 

 8 husbandr}\ Perauenture I set one thynge to be done at 

 one tyme of the yere, and if the husbande shulde do it, 

 it shulde be a greatter losse to h}-m in an other th}'nge. 

 Wherefore it is moste conuenient to do that th}Tige fyrst, 

 1 2 that is moste profitable to hym, and as soone as he [FoI. iw.] 

 can, do the other labour. 



20. ^ To knowe dyners maner of wedes. 



In the later ende of Maye, and the begynnynge of in June 



June, is tyme to wede thy corne. There be diuers maner com. 



of wedes, as thistyls, kedlokes, dockes, cocledrake, 

 4 damolde, gouldes, haudoddes, dogfenell, mathes, ter, 



and dyuers other small wedes. But these be they that 



greue mooste : The thistyll is an yll wede, roughe and Thistles. 



sharpe to handell, and freteth away the comes nygh it, 

 8 and causeth the sherers or reapers not to shere cleane. 



Kedlokes hath a leafe lyke rapes, and beareth a yelowe charlock. 



floure, and is an yll wede, and groweth in al maner corne, 



and hath small coddes, and groweth lyke mustard sede. 

 1 2 Dockes have a brode lefe, and diuers high spyres, and Docks. 



very small sede in the toppe. Cockole hath a longe small cockie. 



lefe, and wyl beare fyue or vi. floures of purple colour, as 



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