Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	good_a	time_n	2,518	5	3.8222	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06946	Markhams farwell to husbandry or, The inriching of all sorts of barren and sterill grounds in our kingdome, to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse, and grasse as the best grounds whatsoeuer together with the anoyances, and preseruation of all graine and seede, from one yeare to many yeares. As also a husbandly computation of men and cattels dayly labours, their expences, charges, and vttermost profits. Attained by trauell and experience, being a worke neuer before handled by any author: and published for the good of the whole kingdome.; Farewell to husbandry	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1620 (1620)	STC 17372; ESTC S112107	100,169	168

countrey where the steepenesse of the hills and narrownesse of the wayes will suffer neither Cart Weine nor Tumbrell to passe in this case you shall keepe Oxen for the plow to till the ground with and Horses to carry pots or hookes the first to carry foorth your meanure and the other to bring home your hay and Corne haruest your fuell and other prouisions which are needfull for your family as they doe both in Cornewall and all other mountainous countries where Carts and weines and such like draughts haue no possible passage Againe it is the office and duty of ●…uery good plowman to know his seuerall labours for euery seuerall moneth through the whole yeare whereby no day nor houre may bee misspent but euery time and season imployed according as his nature requireth as thus for example In the moneth of Ianuary the painefull plowman if he liue in fertile and good soyles as amongst rich stiffe simple cleys he shall first break vp or plow vp his pease earth because it must lye to take baite before it be sowne but if he liue in fruitful wel mixt soyles then in this moneth he shall begin to fallow the field he will lay to rest the yeare following but if he liue vpon hard barren earths of which chiefely I write then in this moneth he shall water his Meadowes and Pasture grounds and he shal draine and make dry his errable grounds especially where he intends to sow Pease Oates or Barley the feed-time following Also he shall stubbe and roote vp all such rough grounds as he intends to sow the yeare following in this Moneth you shall meanure and trime vp you garden moulds you shal comfort with meanure sand or lime or all three mixt together the rootes of all barren fruit trees and also you may cut downe all fuch timber as you would not haue chinke or riue but hold firme and close together onely there will bee losse in the barke for the time is something to earely for it to rise Lastly you may transplant all sorts of Fruit trees the weather being open and the ground cafie you may reare Calues remooue Bees and for your owne health keepe your body warme let good diet and wholesome be your Physition and rather with exercise then sauce increase your appetite In the Moneth of February either set or sowe all sorts of Beanes Pease and other Pulsle and the stiffer your ground is the sooner begin your worke prepare your Garden mould and make it cafie and tender prune and trime all sorts of Fruit trees from mosse cankers and all superfluous branches plasse your hedges and lay you quicksets closse and entire together plant Roses Gooseberies and any fruit that growes vpon small bushes graf●… at the latter ende of this moneth vpon yong and tenderstockes but by all meanes ouerlade not the stocks Inaugurat●…in in this moneth or any other as soone as the barke will rise and also set any slips branches or young syens Lastly for your health take heed of cold forbeare meats that are slimy and flegmatique and if need require or purge bathe or bleed as art shall direct you In the moneth of March make an end of sowing of all sorts of smal pulse and begin to sow Oates Barley and Rye which is called March Rye graft all sorts of fruit trees and with young plants and syens replenish your nurcery couer the roots of all trees that are bared and with fat earth lay them close and warme if any tree grow barren boare holes in his roote and driue hard wedges or pins of oake wood therein and that wil bring fruitfulnesse transplant al sorts of Sommer flowers and giue new comfort of meanure and earth to al early outlandish flowers especially to the crowne Emperiall Tulippos Hyacynth and Narcissus of all shapes and colours cut downe vnderwood for fuel or fencing and looke wel to your cwes for then is the principall time of yeaning And lastly bathe often bleed but vpon extreamity purge not without good counsell and let your dyet be coole and temperate In the moneth of April finish vp all your barley seed and beginne to sowe your hempe and flaxe sow your garden seeds and plant all sorts of herbes finish grafing in the stock but begin your principal inauguration for then the rinde is most plyant and gentle open your hiues and giue the Bees free libertie leaue to succour them with foode and let them labour for their liuing Now cut downe all great Oake timber for now the barke will rise and be in season for the Tanner Now scowre your ditches and gather such meanure as you doe make in the streets and high waies into great heaps together lay your meadowes fleight your corne grounds gather away stones repaire your high waies fet Ozyers and Willowes and cast vp the bankes and munds of all decayed fences Lastly for your health either purge bathe or bleed as you shall haue occasion and vse all wholesomerecreation for them moderate exercise in this moneth there is no better Physicke In the moneth of May sow Barley vpon all light sands and burning grounds so likewise do your hempe and flaxe and also al sorts of tender garden seeds as are Cucumbers and Mellons and all kind of sweet smel ling hearbes and flowers ●…allow your stiffe clayes Sommer-stirre your mixt carthes and foyle al light and loose hot sands In this moneth begin to prepare all barren earths for Wheat and Rye Bourue baite Stubgorsse or Furres and root out Broome and Ferne begin to fould your sheepe lead forth meanure and bringhome fuel and fencing weed your winter corne follow your common workes and put al sorts of cattel to grasse either in pasture or teather put your mares to the horse let nothing be wanting to furnish the Dairy and now put off all your winter-fed fat cattel for now they are scarcest and dearest put young steares and dry kine now to feed at fresh grasse and away with all Pease fed sheepe for the sweetnesse of grasse mutton wil pul downe their prices Lastly for your health vse drinkes that wil coole and purge the blood and al other such Physical precepts as true Arte shall prescribe you But beware of Mountebankes and olde wiues tales the latter hath no ground and the other no truth but apparant cosenage In the moneth of Iune carry sand marle lime and meanure of what kinde soeuer to your land bring home your coales and other necessary fuel fetcht farre off sheare early fat sheepe sow all sorts of tender hearbes cut ranckelow medowes make the first returne of your fat cattel gather early Sommer fruites distil al sorts of plants and hearbs whatsoeuer And lastly for your health vse much exercise thinne dyet and chast thoughts In the moneth of Iuly apply your hay-haruest for a day slackt is many pounds lost chiefly when the weather is vn constant sheare all manner of field-sheepe Sommer-stir rich stiffe grounds foyle