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neede is, and mette it to the myl, and fro the myl, 

 and see that thou have thy measure agyne, beside 

 the toll, or else the myller dealeth not truly with 

 thee, or else thy corne is not drye as it should be. 

 Thou must make butter and chcse when#hou maye, 

 serve thy swyno both morninge and eveninge, and 

 polen (poultry) meate in the morning; and when 

 time of the year cometh, thou must take heede 

 how thy hennes, duckes, and gese do ley, and to 

 gather up thy eggs, and when they ware broody 

 to set them there, as no beastes, swyne, nor other 

 vermine hurt them. And thou must know that al 

 hole-footed fowle wyll sit a month, and all cloven- 

 footed fowle Avill sit but three wcekes, except a 

 pen-hen, and such other great fowles as eraynes, 

 bustards, and such like. And in the beginning 

 of March, or a little before, is time for a wyfe to 

 make her garden, and to get as many goode seedes 

 and herbs as she can, and specyally such as be 

 good for the pot and for to eate, and as oft as need 

 shall require it must be weded, or else the weeds 

 will overgrow the herbes ; and also in Marche is 

 time to sow flaxe and hempe ; buthowo it should be 

 sown, beten, braked, tawed hecheled, spon, 

 wounden, wrapped, and ouen, it needeth not for 

 mee to showe; for women be wise enough, and 

 thereof make they shctes, bordclothes, towels, 

 shertes, and such other necessaries ; and therefore 

 lette thy distaffe be all wave redy for a pastyme, 

 that you be not idel. And undoubted a woman 

 cannot get her livinge honestly with spinning on 

 the dystaffe, but it stoppeth a gap, and must be had. 



It may fortune sometime that thou shalte have 

 so many thynges to doe, that thou shalt not well 

 knowe where is best to begyn. Thee take hede 

 what thing should be the greatest losse if it were 

 not done, and in Avhat space it would be done ; 

 and then thinke what is the greatest losse and 

 there begine. 



It is convenient for a husbande to have helpe of 

 his owne, for many causes, and then may his wife 

 have part of the wool to make her husbande and 

 herself some clothes ; and at the leaste she may 

 have the lockes of the sheep therewith to make 

 clothes, or blankets and coverletes, or both. It is 

 a wise occupation to winnow all manner of cornes ; 

 to make malt; washe and wring the clothes: to cut 

 corne, and in time of neede to helpe her husbande 

 to fill the mucke wayne (cart or dung cart), drive 

 the plough, to lode hay, corne : and such other. 

 Also to go or ride to the market, to seLl butter, 

 chese, mylkes, eggs, chickens, hennes, pyggess 

 guese, and all manner of corne, and also to buy all 

 manner ofnecessariethinges belonging to a house- 

 hold, and to make a true rekening accompt to her 

 husbande what she hath received and what she 

 hathe payed. And yf the husbande go to the mar- 

 ket to buy or sel, as they oft do, he then to she we 

 his wyfe like manner. For if one of them should 

 use to discieve (deceive) the other, he disceyveth 

 himselfe, and he is not like to thrive, and therefore 

 they must be true either to other. I could perad- 

 venture shew to the husbande of divers poyntes that 

 the wives discieve their husbandes in, and in like 

 manner how husbandes disceive their wives. But if 

 I should do so, I should shew more subtile points 

 of disceite than others of them knew before; and 

 therefore, me seemeth best to hold my peace. [!] 



Love.— Life's reward,— rewarded in rewarding. 



Can I?— or Can I not] 



The inward persuasion that we are free to do, 

 or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If 

 we trace the true principles of our actions, we shall 

 find that they are always necessary consequences 

 of our volitions and desires, whicli are never 

 in our power. You think yourself free, because 

 you do what you will. But are you free to will, 

 or not to will ; to desire, or not to desire ? 

 Pause ere you reply. Again: are not your 

 volitions and desires necessarily excited by 

 objects or qualities totally independent of you? 



But you will say, " I feel free." This is a 

 mere illusion, which may be compared to that of 

 the fly in the fable, who, lighting upon the pole 

 of a heavy carriage, applauded himself for 

 directing its course. Man who thinks himself 

 free, is a fly, — who imagines he has power to 

 move the universe, while he is himself unknow- 

 ingly carried along with it. Let our good 

 readers " chew the cud " of these meditations, 

 and we feel sure they will side with us in opi- 

 nion. The experience of one single day will test 

 the whole question. 



A Word against " Encores." 



It seems as if the pleasures of this world, even 

 when the intellectual and the sensual are blended, 

 would never bear attempted repetition. To enjoy 

 one series of sensations once, is all that is usually 

 permitted to man. Almost all encores are failures, 

 whether of song or situation. The wish to hear 

 and see with feelings which it is impossible we 

 can ever experience again, ungratified, is better 

 than its fulfilment ; with the exception, however, 

 of scenery, in which " Nature never did betray 

 the heart that loved her." Perhaps the inferiority 

 of any recurrence of a pleasant incident to its ori- 

 ginal, arises in part from our expecting a simi- 

 larity of minute circumstances, which never 

 recurs, and feeling disappointed that " another" 

 is not " the same." How often have we since re- 

 visited loved spots, where in boyhood we 

 revelled, in the vain hope of experiencing the 

 same delights as of yore ! Alas ! no. This 

 power of renewing bygone feelings is not given 

 to man. Every successive day brings with it 

 some unexpected change, as many of us too well 

 know to our discomfort. 



The Land of Pearls. 



Some ask'd, how pearls did grow, and where? 



Then spake I to my girl 

 To part her lips, and shew them there — 



The quarrelets of pearl. — Herrick. 



END OF VOLUME I. 



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