The eighteentli Booke of 



it is one mans vvorkc to bind the hey of one 2cre into bottcls : and ufually you fliall have in G 

 '^which is al- fo much ground^ 1200 pretie ones^of foure pound weight apccce. So foone as the graiTe is cue 

 ?mlk'lodes. ^"^ ^^^^ fwathjit muft bcc tedded^ brought into windrowcs^and turned cftfoones with 

 * the Sunne : neither ought it to be cocked up but drie : for otherwifeiif this bee not carefully loo- 

 ked unto,you fhallfee it reeke and fmoke again by the morning, for the heat that it hath caught 

 within : but let the SunnC take it befidcs, you fhall bee fure to lee the cockcs kindle and bcc of a 

 light fire. 



So foone as this firft grafTe is downc and the hey madc^ the meddow muft prefenily bee m- 

 *Soraecallit tercd againe^to the end there may be a fecond math of rowen hey in ^ Autumnejwhich the La- 

 vvoodcockhcy. tincscall Cordum. Intheterritorieof Interamna they ufe commonly to mow their meddowes 



foure times a ycarcj yea, though they lie high and far from the benefit of water . And m moil H 

 places of Italic, thrice is ordinarie : and the rowen gralle afterwards commeth up fo thicke and 

 high forpafture andforragCj thatityeeldeth as great a benefit as the crops of hey before : ma- 

 riCjtorailc this commodiiie and gaincj thofcknowfull well who are drovers of greater cattailc, 

 breeders alfo of young celts, and principally, chariottiers that keepe coach-horlcs i for all shefe 

 have the beft mcanes to employ this graiTe for their mofl behoofe. 



To proceed now to the confideration of the heavens. The Summer Sunneflead, fallcth out 

 alwaies [in Italic] to be juft upon the foure and twentie day of June, at what time as the Sunne is 

 enircd eight degrees within Cancerjas hath been faid before. This is that great point and Tro-^ 

 pickeof the world : now is theheavenin moftforce, and the Sunneai the iiighed of his power 

 and vertuc. From the midwinter or fliorteft day of the yearc, unto this prefcnt, during the ipacs I 

 of fixmoneths the daies lengthen : and nowthe Sunnebeing paflfed farrc into the Norths and 

 having mounted and raiight to the higheft pitch of his intended laborious journey, beginneth 

 CO turne againe from this Tropicke of Cancer in theNorih, and bcndeth his courie toward the 

 other Tropickc of Capricornein the South 5 intending by this meanesfor other fixmoneths to 

 lengthen the nightsand to fhorten the daies^proportionably* Which thcHusbandman nofoo- 

 ner leethjbut he takcth his opportunitie,and woteth well,that now is the time wherein hee muft 

 of neceflicie make had; to gather and inn the fruits of the yearCjeach one refpedively in their fc- 

 verall feafons: now or never ought hee to lay in his provifion againfl the Winter : now muft hee 

 armc and prepare himfelfe(no remedie)to withft and the rigor of cold andfroftic weather. And 

 therforemectitwas3thatdamcNature(ourkindnourceandtendermother)fhouldgiveuswar-' K 

 ning hereof^and forefhew this alteration of the yeare, by mofl undoubted and infallible argu- 

 ments,Hcreupon fhc hath prefented thefe markes and fignes to the HusbandmaUjUnd brought 

 them even to his hand: commaunding fundrie trees upon that very day of theSunneftead to 

 turne their leaves toward the Sunne^as it lliec pointed unto them by the finger, and fhewed how 

 that Planetbcgan to retire from whence hee came : (b willing (he is, not to conceale from him 

 thelefccretSjthat lliec hath not let tbefe markes upon wild and favage trees far remote out of the 

 way, (becaule fhc would not have him takefomuchpainesastogointodafertforrcfts, unpaiTa- 

 blc wields and mountaines,to fecke for the fignes and tokens aforefaid) nc yet upon fuch as grow 

 within good townes and citiies,much leflc then thofc that fervc and ar? in requcft for arbors and 

 vinetsonely in hortyards and gardens of pleafure, that he ihouldbei^ine to leave his fcrmc in L 

 thecountrey and goe thiiher(and yet thefe trees alfo tefiifie of the Sunneflcad and his retui nc:) 

 what hath flie done then ? Marie Oic hath caufed the Olive trcCjwhich he fceth every hour plan- 

 ted at his very foot, to turne about her leafe : flic hath willed the Linden, a tree that bcc hath re- 

 courfe unto every foot for a thoufand ufes^to doe the like: fhe hath enjoined the white Poplar or 

 Alpe alfo the femblablcjwedded as it isfo commonly to Vincs.Haft not thouynough yet(quoth 

 ihej and will not all this make thee perfecl ? Look then to the Elme,at the fqot wherof thou plan-* . 

 tefl thy Vine, and which thou feeft continually endowed and enriched therewith, I will make it 

 alfo to turne the leafe when the Sunne returneS.ThoU ihippeif her of herleaves and braunches 

 for thy cattell to eat and broufe ; tho u getteft up into it for to piune the V ine 5 How canfl thou 

 chufe but fee the leaves turned ? How canft thou be igncrantjbut take knowledge of the Solft ice Wl 

 and Sunnesreturne? Surely that fide of the leafe which was from the Sunne but yefierday,is 

 nowcleane contrarie^andlookes towardhim sand in onewordjall areturned upfidedowne.Thou 

 occupieft the oifier and willow twigs ever and anonc, to bind and tie one thing or. other 3 lowcfi 

 they grow of all the refl^and higher thou art than they by die head : never lock up nor caft d]ine 



