162 SKETCHES OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 



"In May, get a weed -hook, a crotch, and a glove, 

 And weed out such weeds as the com does not love ; 

 For weeding of winter corn now is the best, 

 But June is the better for weeding the rest. 



" The May- weed doth burn, and the thistle doth fret, 

 The fitches pull down both rye and the wheat ; 

 The brake and the cockle be noisome too much, 

 Yet like unto boodle no weed is there such. 



" Slack never thy weeding, for dearth nor for cheap, 

 The corn shall reward it, ere ever ye reap ; 

 And specially where ye do trust for to seed, 

 Let that te well used the better to speed." 



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