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52. How to shear sheep. 



How to 



shear sheep. 



Mark them 

 well. 



52. ^ To shere shepe. 



Take hede of. the sherers, for touchynge the shepe with 

 the sheres, and specially for pryckyng with the poynte of 

 the sheres, and that the shepeherde be alway redy with 



4 his tarboxe to salue them. And se that they be well 

 marked, bothe eare-marke, pitche-marke, and radel- 

 marke, and let the wol be well folden or wounden with 

 a woU-wynder, that can good skyll therof, the whiche shal 



8 do moche good in the sale of the same. 



53. ^ To drawe and seuer the badde shepe from the good. 



Separate 

 the sheep in- 

 to flocks. 



Whan thou haste all shorne thy shepe, it is than best 



tyme to drawe them, and soo seuer theym in dyuers sortes ; 



[Foi. 33.] the shepe that thou wylte fede by them-selfe, the ewes by 



4 theym-selfe, the share-hogges and theyues by them-selfe, 



the lambes by theym-selfe, wedders and the rammes by 



them-self, if thou haue soo many pastures for them : for 



the byggest wyll beate the weikeste with his heed. And of 



onek!nd^°* 8 cuery sort of shepe, it may fortune there be some, that 



together. ]ii^g ^Qt and be weike ; those wolde be put in freshe 



grasse by theym-selfe : and whan they be a lyttel mended, 



than sel them, and ofte chaunge of grasse shal mend all 



12 maner of cattell. 



Spear-wort. 



Penny- 

 grass. 



54. ^ What thynges rotteth shepe. 



It is necessary that a shepeherde shoulde knowe what 

 thynge rotteth shepe, that he myght kepe them the 

 better. Ther is a grasse called sperewort, and hath a 



4 long narowe leafe, lyke a spere-heed, and it wyll growe 

 a fote hyghe, and beareth a yelowe floure, as brode as a 

 peny, and it growethe alwaye in lowe places where the 

 water is vsed to stande in wynter. An other grasse is 



8 called peny-grasse, and groweth lowe by the erthe in a 

 marsshe grounde, and hath a leafe as brode as a peny of 



