141. How to thrive. 91 



I leraed two verses at grammar-scole, and they be these : [FoI. 57*.] 

 Gutia cauat lapidem non vi, sed scepe cadendo : Sic homo fit cf. Ovid, ex 



Ponto 



8 sapiens non vi, sed scEpe legendo : A droppe of water perseth Epist. iv. 



a stoone, not al-onely by his owne strengthe, but by his 



often fallynge. Ryghte so a man shall be made wyse, 



not all-onely by hym-selfe, but by his ofte redynge. And 



12 soo maye this yonge gentyllman, accordynge to the 



season of the yere, rede to his seruauntes what chapyter Read a 



^ c c chapter 



he wyll. And also for any other maner of profyte con- to your 



servants 



teyned in the same, the whiche is necessary for a yonge now and 



then. 



16 husbande, that hath not the exper}'ence of housbandrje, 

 nor other thynges conteyned in this presente boke, to 

 take a good remerabraunce and credence thervnto, for 

 there is an olde sayinge, but of what auctor)'tie I can- 



20 not tell : Quod melior est pradica rusticoruva, yuam scientta 

 philosophorum. It is better the practiue or knowlege of Practice is 



better than 



an husband-man well proued, than the science or con- theory, 

 nynge of a philosopher not proued, for there is nothj-nge 



21 touchyng husbandr)-, and other profjtes conteyned in 

 this presente booke, but I haue hadde the experyence 

 therof, and proued the same. And ouer and beside al 

 this boke, I wil aduise him to r}se betime in the morning, 



28 according to the verse before spoke of, Sanat, sanciificat, [Foi. 58.] 

 et dilat surgere mane: And go about his closes, pastures, 

 fieldes, and specially by the hedges, & to haue in his 

 purse a payre of tables, and whan he seeth any-thing. Keep a pair 



32 that wolde be amended, to wryte it in his tables: as if he andmak4 



notes of all 



fynde any horses, mares, beastes, shepe, swyne, or geese that seems 



amiss. 



in his pastures, that be not his owne : And perauenture 

 thoughe they be his owne, he wolde not haue them to 



36 goo there, or to fynde a gap, or a sherde in his hedge, 

 or any water standynge in his pastures vppon his grasse, 

 wherby he maye take double hurte, bothe losse of his 

 grasse, and rotting of his shepe and calues. And also 



40 of standynge-water in his come-fieldes at the landes 



