100 148. Eat within thy tether. 



brinif.not'at measure, you muste spare at the brynke, and not at the 



[F0I.64I']" 4 bottom, that is to vnderstande, in the begynnynge of 



the yere, sellynge of thy cornes, or spendynge in thy 



house, vnto the tyme that thou haue sowen agayne thy 



wynter-corne, and thy lente-corne, and than se what 



8 remayneth to serue thy house, and of the ouerplus thou 



mayste sell and bye suche other necessaryes, as thou must 



Do not ^ nedes occupie. And if thou spende it in the begynnynge 



spend much 



at the of the yere, and shall want in the hynder ende, than 



beginning of 



the year. 12 thou doste not eate within thy tedure, and at the laste 



thou shake be punyshed, as I shal proue the by ensample. 



Take thy horse, and go tedure him vpon thyne owne 



lees, flytte hym as ofte as thou wylte, no manne wyll 



16 saye 'wronge thou doste'; but make thy horse to longe 



Give not a tedure, than whan thou haste tyed hym vppon thyne 



your horse 



too long a owne lees, his tedure is so longe, that it recheth to the 



tether. 



middes of an-other mans lees or corne : Nowe haste 

 20 thou gyuen hym to moche lybertye, and that man, whose 

 corne or grasse thy horse hath eaten, wyll be greued at 

 the, and wyll cause the to be amerced in the court, or 

 elles to make hym amendes, or bothe. And if thy 



If the horse z\ horse breake his tedure, and go at large in euery mans 



tether, come and grasse, than commeth the pynder, and taketh 



hym, and putteth hym in the pynfolde, and there shall 



[F0I.65.] he stande in prison, without any meate, vnto the tyme 



28 thou hast payde his raunsome to the pynder, and also 



he will be make amendes to thy neyghbours, for distroyenge of 



impounded. 



theyr corne. Ryght so, as long as thou eatest within 

 Wherefore, thy tcdurc, that thou nedest not to begge nor borowe of 



'eat within ^ °° 



thy tether.' j2 noo man, soo longe shalte thou encrease and growe in 

 rychesse, and euery man wyll be content with the. And 

 if thou make thy tedure to longe, that thyne owne 

 porcyon wyll not serue the, but that thou shalte begge, 

 36 borowe, or bye of other: that wyll not longe endure, 

 but thou shalte fall in-to pouertye. And if thou breake 



