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odde grownd, but in this gi'ownd is Edward's farme to have iioe 

 common att all, because the ownere hveth in another ])]ace : 

 this gi-ownide will (if the season bee wanne) kee})e the foresaid 

 niunber very loftily for the space of three weekes ; yett the 

 best way is to take away the lambes as they fall, and i)ut them 

 into another place, and to make upp the number wdth other 

 ewes which are to lambe, or else with the weakest sort of 

 hogges. 



The reason why the lambes woulde bee taken away is, be- 

 cause the number is soe greate, that oftentimes weake younge 

 lambes are famished before they can meete with theyi*e dauimes. 



Yoiuige lambes that shoote, are to be looked att and dressed 

 once a day : elder lambes that ^vi'iggle the^Te tayles, and lye 

 skulkinge with theyi'e heades close to the gi-o^viide, are to bee 

 gotten foi-with and searched, for fear of maddes breedinge ; the 

 shepheardes phraise is to say, that such lambes have company. 



It is a fjishion in some places, to keepe ewes with laml)e 

 tliree oi" four days on landes wheare oates have beene sowne, 

 that they may licke up such oate kernehs as lye on the to])pe 

 uncovered ; others againe aboute the beginninge of March will 

 (if tlieyre wheate and rye seeme too thicke and rancke) keepe 

 sheepe on the same, and oftentimes sutler them to eate it to the 

 N'ery grownde. The most experienced shee})-men endeavour by 

 all meanes possible to get into a goode stocke ; altirminge, that 

 it is a more prutittable way so give Ws. for an ewe, that is well 

 quartered, and of a goode stapple, with an handsome stniight 

 lambe att her heeles, than to give 5«. for an ewe, that is of a 

 shorte runtish kinde, with a shorte gnusse belly 'd lambe follow- 

 ing her ; for tliey say, the one will liave as much woll as three 

 such as the other ; and the (jue lambe will yeeld more ])rotit and 

 with less cost then two such jus the other ; and, lastly, that the 

 ewe hei-selfe with the fleece of, will out sell the other 1«. (id. or 

 l6'. in a niarkett. 



SlUNES OF A (JooDK EWE. 

 Lett her be dodded ; her teeth white, standinge close one to 

 another, beinge neyther liitted noi* broken, wearinge rounde, 

 and all alike and falling right with the ringe of the upper 

 chai)j)e ; her neck seminge thicke and growne with woll ; her 

 showlder thicke and large ; her legges shorte ; her sceminge 

 broade ; her belly deepe and wide ; her buttocke brojulc ami 

 large, and shewinge tul'ty and thicke of wooll downe towardes 

 the hoiigh ; her tayh* longe and bushy ; her stapple snodde, 

 and yett well growno ; and, la-stly, shee hei-selfe seeminge every 

 way rownde and full. A doded sheej)e in accounted bi'tter then 

 ail horn (I sheepe for two reasons. 



