Tusser

Cited as Tusser. — 16 quotations

Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more.

Such land as ye break up for barley to sow, Two earths at the least, ere ye sow it, bestow.

The huswife is she that do labor doth fall.

Lingering lubbers lose many a penny.

Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end.

Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow.

A neat and a sheep of his own.

Good provender laboring horses would have.

Pare saffron between the two St. Mary's days, Or set or go shift it that knowest the ways.

And cause it on shocks to be by and by set.

Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace.

The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost.

And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.

Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire.

If weather be fair and tidy.

Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good.