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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14063	A hundreth good pointes of husbandry lately maried vnto a hundreth good poynts of huswifery: newly corrected and amplified with dyuers proper lessons for housholders, as by the table at the latter ende, more plainly may appeare: set foorth by Thomas Tusser Gentle man, seruant to the right honorable Lorde Paget of Beudefert.	Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.	1570 (1570)	STC 24373; ESTC S111444	36,086	88

¶ A hundreth good pointes of Husbandry lately maried vnto a Hundreth good poynts of Huswifery newly corrected and amplified with dyuers proper lessons for Housholders as by the table at the latter ende more plainly may appeare Set foorth by Thomas Tusser Gentle man seruant to the right honorable Lorde Paget of Beudesert In aedibus Richardi Tottylli Cum priuilegio Anno. 1570. The Preface WHat lookest thou here for to haue Trim verses thy fansie to please Of Surry so famous that craue Looke nothing but rudenesse in these VVhat other thing lookest thou then Graue sentences herein to finde Such Chaucer hath twentie and ten Ye thousandes to pleasure thy minde VVhat looke ye I pray you shewe what Tearmes painted with rethorike fine Of makers of Englishe looke that But neuer in me nor in mine VVhat lookest thou then at the last Good lessons for thee and thy wyfe Then kepe them in memorie fast From youth to the last of thy lyfe VVhat looke ye for more in my booke Things nedefull in tyme for to come Else misse I of that I do looke If pleasant thou findest not some The commodities of husbandrie Let house haue to fill her Let land haue a tiller No dweller what good doth the house for to stande What profite vnhabited bringeth the land No labour no meate No host dye in streate No husbandry vsed how soone shall we sterue House keping neglected what comfort to serue Ill father no gift No knowledge no thrift The father an vnthrift what hope to the sonne The ruler vnskilfull howe quickly vndone As true as thy fayth Thus husbandry saith I Seme but a drudge yet I passe any king To such as can vse mee great wealth I do bring Since Adam first liued I neuer did dye When Noe was a sea man there also was I. The earth is my store house the sea my fisheponde What they haue to pleasure with is in my hand what hath any life but I helpe to preserue What thing without me but is ready to sterue In Woodland or Champion Citie or towne If I be long absent what falleth not downe If I be long present what goodnesse can want Though thinges at my cōming were neuer so scant Of such as do loue me what neede to recite Ye though of the poorest whō make I not knight Great Kinges I do succour else wrong it would go The King of all kinges hath appointed it so To the right honorable and my speciall good Lorde and maister the Lorde Paget of Beudesert T TIme trieth the truth in euery thing H How euer man doth blase his mynde O Of woorkes which best may profite bring M Men apt to iudge be often blinde A As therefore truth in time doth craue S So let this booke iust fauour haue T Take you my Lorde and Master than V Vnlesse mischaunce mischaunceth me S Such homely gift of me your man S Since more in court I may not be A And let your prayse wonne heretofore R Remaine abrode for euermore M My seruing you thus vnderstand A And God his helpe and yours withall D Did cause good luck to take mine hande E Erecting one most like to fall M My seruing you I know it was E. Enforced this to come to passe Since being once at Cambrige taught Of Court tenne yeres I made assay No musike then was left vnsought Such care I had to serue that way My ioy gan slacke then made I chaunge Expulsed mirth for musike straunge My musike since hath bene the plough Entangled with some care among The gaine not great the paine inough Hath made me sing another song Which song if well I may auow No man I craue to iudge but you Your seruant Thomas Tussar To the Reader I Haue bene prayde to shewe mine ayde in taking payne not for the gaine but for good will to shewe such skill as shewe I coulde That husbandry with huswifery as Cocke and Hen to Country men all straungnesse gone might ioyne in one as louers should I trust both this perfourmed is and how that here if shall appere that I by prouse to thy behouse haue brought to passe That such as wiue and fayne would thriue may here be taught almost for naught to iudge and spye of husbandrye as in a glasse What should I gayne to shewe in vayne my losses past that ran more fast than running streame from reame to reame that fleeth so swift For that I coulde not get for golde to teach me howe as this do you so playne a way from day to day to come by thrift What is a grote or twaine to note once in thy lyfe for man and wife to saue a pounde in house and grounde eche other weeke VVhat more for vvelth vvhat more for health vvhat nedeth lesse runne Iacke helpe Besse to stay amisse thou hauing this not for to seeke I doe not craue more thanks to haue than gyuen to me al redy be but this is all that such as shall peruse this booke That for my sake they gently take vvhat ere they finde against their minde vvhen he or she shall minded be thereon to looke FINIS The description of Husbandrie OF husband doth husbandrie challēge that name of husbandrie husband doth likewise the same Where huswife and huswiferie ioineth with these there weith in aboundaunce is gotten with ease The name of a husband what is it to say of wife and of houshold the bande and the staye Some husbandly thriueth that neuer had wyfe yet scarce a good husband in goodnesse of lyfe The husband is he that to labour doth fall the labour of him I do husbandrie call If thrift by that labour be any way caught then is it good husbandrie else is it naught So housholde and housholdrie I do define for folke and the goodes that in house be of thine Houskeping to them as a refuge is set which like as it is so report it doth get Thus housholde and huswiferie louers must bee with husband and huswife yea further we see Housekeping and husbandrie if they be good must loue one another as cosins in bloud The Ladder to thrift 1 TO take thy calling thankfully To shunne the path to beggery 2 To grudge in youth no drudgerie To come by penny luckely 3 To get more to it wittily To kepe thy gettings couertly 4 To spende at first but nigardly To lay for age continually 5 To hearke to profite earnestly To currey fauell willingly 6 To get good plot to occupie To store and vse it husbandly 7 To get good wyfe for company To liue in wedlock honestly 8 To store thy house with housholdrie To make prouision thriftilie 9 To ioyne to wyfe good family To kepe no more but nedefully 10 To gouerne houshold skilfully To suffer none liue ydely 11 To courage wife in huswifery To vse well doers gentely 12 To buy and sell with pollicie To meddle not with pylferie 13 To kepe thy touch substancially To make thy bondes aduisedly 14 To vse thy