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31. How to cover corn. 



of goodes, but also helthe of bodye and soule shall 

 folowe. Wolde to god, that euerye man knewe the 

 32 harde worde of our lorde by his prophete Malachias, 

 and also the comfortable wordes of the holy saynte 

 Austyn. For than wolde I truste verely, that tythes , 

 shulde be truely gyuen. 



How to 

 cover corn. 



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Set ten 

 sheaves to- 

 gether. 



For peas 



and beans 

 set three 

 together. 



31. \ Howe all maner of come shulde be couered. 



Nowe these cornes be shorne and bounden, and the 

 tithes cast out, it is tyme to couer theym, shoke theym, 

 or halfe-throne them, but couerynge is the beste waye 



4 of all maner of whyte corne. And that is, to set foure 

 sheues on one syde, and .iiii. sheues on the other syde, 

 and two sheues aboue, of the greatteste, bounden harde 

 nyghe to the nether ende, the whiche must be set vpwarde, 

 8 and the lop downewarde spredde abrode to couer all the 

 other sheues. And they wyll sta«d beste in wynde, and 

 saue theym-selfe beste in rayne, and they wolde be set 

 on the rydge of the lande, and the sayde sheues to leane 



12 to-gether in the toppes, and wyde at the grounde, that 

 the winde may go through, to drye them. Pees and 

 beanes wolde be set on the rydge of the lande, thre 

 sheues together, the toppes vpwarde, and wrythen to- 



16 gether, and wyde benethe, that they maye the better 

 wyddre. 



To load 

 corn. 



Make many 

 mows, if it 

 be wet. 



32. \ To lode corne, and mowe it. 



Whanne all these cornes be drye and wyddred ynoughe, 

 than lode theym in-to the barne, and laye euerye corne 

 by it-selfe. And if be a wete haruest, make many mowes : 

 4 and if thou haue not housynge ynoughe, thanne it is 

 better to laye thy pees and benes without vppon a reke, 

 than other corne, and it is better vppon a scaffolde than 

 vppon the grounde : for than it muste be well hedged 



