7 Cut off, good wife, ripe beane with a knife.
8 Ripe hempe out cull, from karle to pull. Let séede hempe growe, till more ye knowe.
9 Drie flax get in, for spinners[2] to spin. Now mowe[3] or pluck thy branke or buck.
10 Some wormewood saue, for March to haue.
11 Mark Physick true, of wormewood and rue.[4] Get grist to the mill, for wanting at will.[E340]
Thus endeth Julies abstract, agréeing with Julies husbandrie.
Some woormwood saue for March to haue. 1577.
No tempest, good Julie, Least corne lookes rulie.
Forgotten month past, Doe now at the last.
1 Go muster thy seruants, be captaine thy selfe, prouiding them weapon and other like pelfe. Get bottles and walletts, keepe field in the heat, the feare is as much, as the danger is great.
2 With tossing and raking and setting on cox, grasse latelie in swathes is hay for an ox:[E341] That done, go and cart it and haue it away, the battel is fought, ye haue gotten the day.
3 Pay iustly thy tithes whatsoeuer thou bee, that God may in blessing send foison to thee. Though Vicar[1] be bad, or the Parson as euill, go not for thy tithing thy selfe to the Deuill.
4 Let hay be well made, or auise else auouse,[E342] for molding in goef,[2] or of firing the house. Lay coursest aside for the ox and the cow, the finest for sheepe and thy gelding alow.
5 Then downe with the hedlonds, that groweth about, leaue neuer a dallop vnmowne and had out. Though grasse be but thin, about barlie and pease, yet picked vp cleane ye shall find therein ease.
6 Thry fallow[E343] betime, for destroieng of weede, least thistle and duck[3] fall a blooming and seede, Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon, to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.
[Sidenote: ¶ Gathering of garden beanes.]
7 Not rent[4] off, but cut off, ripe beane with a knife, for hindering stalke of hir vegetiue life. So gather the lowest, and leaning the top, shall teach thee a trick, for to double thy crop.[E344]
8 Wife, pluck fro thy seed hemp the fiemble hemp clene, this looketh more yellow, the other more grene: Vse ton for thy spinning, leaue Mihel the tother, for shoo thred and halter, for rope and such other.[E345]
9[5] Now pluck vp thy flax, for the maidens to spin, first see it dried, and timelie got in. And mowe vp thy branke, and away with it drie, and howse it vp close, out of danger to lie.