142. Hexameter verses. 93 



76 do no more so, for if they do, he wyll shewe his master 

 therof : and if he do not this, he is not a trewe seruaunt. 



142. ^ A lesson made in Englisshe verses, to teache a gentyl- 

 mans seruaunt, to saye at euery tyme whan he 

 taketh his horse, for his remembraunce, that he shall 

 not forget his gere in his inne behynde hym. 



Pvrse, dagger, cloke, nyght-cap, kerchef, shoyng-home, j^g^^^gj ^ 



boget, and shoes. hei^'the" 



Spere, male, hode, halter, sadelclothe, spores, hatte, with memory. 



thy horse-combe. 

 Bowe, arrowes, sworde, bukler, home, leisshe, gloues, 



stringe, and thy bracer. 

 4 Penne, paper, inke, parchmente, reedwaxe, pommes, 



bokes, thou remember. 

 Penknyfe, combe, thimble, nedle, threde, poynte, leste 



that thy gurthe breake. 

 Bodkyn, knyfe, lyngel, gyue thy horse meate, se he be 



showed well. 

 Make mery, synge and thou can ; take hede to thy gere, 



that thou lose none. 



143. \ A prologue for the wyues occupation. ^^j ^ 



Nowe thou husbande, that haste doone thy dylygence 

 and labour, that longeth to an husbande, to get thy 

 lyuynge, thy wyues, thy chyldrens, and thy seruauntes : 

 4 yet are there other thynges, that muste nedes be done, seldom 

 or elles thou shake not thryue. For there is an olde husband''* 

 common sayenge, that seldom doth the housbande thryue, wife's"ieave. 

 withoute the leue of his wyfe. By this sayenge it shoulde 

 8 seme, that there be other occupations and labours, that 

 be moste conuenient for the wyues to do. And howe be 

 it that I haue not experyence of al theyr occupations and i win tell 

 warkes, as I haue of husbandry, yet a lyttell wyl I speke part^f Oieir 

 1 2 what they ought to do, though I tel them nat howe they " '^' 

 shulde doo and exercyse theyr labours and occupations. 



