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6. I. But or he\ Before we. 



2. ^eare\ implements. A genteel improvement ! So again in 1. 45. 



4- stylkynges, wrethyng-temes\ stilking wrethen teames. 



6. sleues\ cleuisse. fykfarke] Pitchforke. 



9. fellyes\ follies {!). 10. fettred] fettered or tyed. 



17. sauW] sole. 



19, lyn-pinna] limpins. 



23. piksiaues] pickstaues, all which are best of Ashe. 



24. hombers] humbers. holmes whyted, tresses] holmes, withed traces. 



29. or kyddes, or suche other\ faggots, or Kids. 



6. 5. I. R. adds — "yet in all FtrgT/r writing the Oxe-plongh is most preferred," 

 There are other unimportant variations here. 



17. teddered] leathered. 



18. hades] hadds. 



24. gere that they shal] hames and tyer they. 



27. hey] hay mingled, which Plough-men call bendfoder. 



28. and they haue, &=€.] and for shooes for the most part that cost in them is 

 saued, except it be for some long ioumey, or in stony wayes for feare of surbayting. 



30. lyttell worihe] worth nothing, except for a kennell of noyse-b^etting Hounds. 

 32. H. s.] tenne shillings. 



7. I . R. omits this section altogether. 



8. I. R. greatly expands this section, after the following maimer. 



Chapter 8. *!: How a man should plough all maimer of Lands all times of the 



yeare. 

 Now that I haue prescribed the manner to make and temper the most or all the 

 sorts of Ploughs, it shall next seeme expedient for me to show the manner and 

 time of the yeare in which a man ought to Plough, and for the better vnderstand- 

 ing of the ignorant, I will begin at the beginning of the yeare, and so succeede 

 downe-ward : After the feast of Epiphanie it is time for a Husbandman to 

 goe to Plough, to wit, if your ground be a stiffe and a tough clay, then shall you 

 begin and Plough your Pease-earth, which is, where you had your Wheate, Rye, 

 and Barley, the yeere before : this ground being ploughed, you shall let it so lye, 

 which is called bajrting some fine or sixe dayes, that it may receaue a frost or two, 

 which frost will so lighten and deuide the earth, that when you shall come to 

 harrow it, it will runne to a very good mold, that otherwise it would neuer doe. 

 If your ground be naturally light and sandy, then may you imraediatly vpon your 

 ploughing sowe without giuing your ground any bayte at all. WTien your Pease 

 earth is sowne, and the Spring is creeping on : then if you will follow Virgils 

 famous principles, begin to fallow your ground which must rest that yeare. In 

 the beginning of Lent sow your Barley upon clay grounds, but in hote sandy 

 grounds, if you stay a moneth or more longer it will be much the better. At 

 mid-sommer stirre vp a-new, that is, Plow againe your fallow ground : & before 

 the rising of the North-starre, which is eleuen dayes before the Equinoctial 

 Autumnal, or the thirteenth of September, then sow your Wheate and Rye, and 

 these be the seasons and the graynes to sow, except Oates, which is alwayes to be 

 vsed in like manner as Barley is. If you haue any ley ground to fallow or breake 

 vp for to sowe Oates vpon, then let that be the first thing you take in hand, that 



