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FIUE HUNDRED POINTES
OF
GOOD HUSBANDRIE.
BY
THOMAS TUSSER.
W. PAYNE, ESQ., AND SIDNEY J. HERRTAGE, ESQ., B.A.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.
THE LAST WILL OF THOMAS TUSSER.
A Lesson.
A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month,& how to finde out huswiferie verses by the Pilcrowe, and Champion from Woodland.
The Table of Husbandrie.
A Table of the pointes of husbandrie mentioned in this booke.
FINIS.
1.
¶ The Author's Epistle to the late Lord William Paget, wherein he doth discourse of his owne bringing vp, and of the goodnes of the said Lord his master vnto him, and the occasion of this his booke, thus set forth of his owne long practise.
Chap. 1.
2.
¶ To the Right Honorable and my speciall good Lord and Master, the Lord Thomas Paget of Beaudesert, sone and heire to his late[1] father deceased.
Chap. 2.
3.
¶ To the Reader.
Chap. 3.
4.
¶ An Introduction to the Booke of Husbandrie.[1]
Chap. 4.
5.
¶ A Preface to the buier of this booke.
Chap. 5.
6.
The commodities of Husbandrie.
Chap. 6.
7.
Chap. 7.
8.
¶ The description of Husbandrie.
Chap. 8.
9.
¶ The Ladder to thrift.
Chap. 9.
10.
¶ Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.
Chap. 10.
11.
¶ An habitation inforced better late than neuer, vpon these words Sit downe Robin and rest thee.[E57]
Chap. 11.
12.
¶ The fermers dailie diet.
Chap. 12.
13.
A description of the properties of windes all the times of the yeere.
Chap. 13.
14.
¶ Of the Planets.
Chap. 14.
15.
¶ Septembers Abstract.
Chap. 15.
¶ Other short remembrances.[12]
16.
¶ Septembers husbandrie.
Chap. 15.
17.
A digression to husbandlie furniture.
[16 contd.]
18.
¶ Octobers abstract.
Chap. 16.
¶ Other short remembrances.[11]
19.
¶ Octobers husbandrie.
Chap. 17.
A digression to the usage of diuers countries, concerning Tillage.
20.
¶ Nouembers abstract.
Chap. 18
¶ Other short remembrances.
21.
¶ Nouembers husbandrie.
Chap. 19.
22.
¶ Decembers abstract.
Chap. 20.
¶ Other short remembrances.
23.
¶ Decembers husbandrie.
Chap. 21.
24.
¶ A digression to hospitalitie.
Chap. 22.[1]
25.
¶ A description of time, and the yeare.
Chap. 23.
26.
¶ A description of life and riches.
Chap. 24.
27.
¶ A description of housekeeping.
Chap. 25.
28.
¶ A description of the feast of the birth of Christ, commonly called Christmas.[1]
Chap. 26.
29.
¶ A description of apt time to spend.
Chap. 27.
30.
¶ Against fantasticall scruplenes.
Chap. 28.
31.
¶ Christmas husbandlie fare.
Chap. 29.
32.
¶ A Christmas Caroll of the birth of Christ vpon the tune of King Salomon.[E142]
Chap. 30.
33.
¶ Januaries abstract.
Chap. 31.
¶ Other short remembrances.
34.
Of trees or fruites to be set or remooued.
35.
¶ Januaries husbandrie.
Chap. 32.
36.
¶ Februaries abstract.
Chap. 33.
¶ Other short remembrances.
37.
¶ Februaries husbandrie.
Chap. 34.
38.
¶ Marches abstract.
Chap. 35.
¶ Other short remembrances.
39.
Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen.
40.
Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.
41.
Herbes and rootes to boile or to butter.
42.
Strowing herbes of all sortes.
43.
Herbes, branches, and flowers, for windowes and pots.
44.
Herbes to still in Sommer.
45.
Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physick, not rehersed before.
46.
¶ Marches husbandrie.
Chap. 36.
47.
¶ Aprils abstract.
Chap. 37.
48.
¶ Aprils husbandrie.
Chap. 38.
49.
¶ A lesson for dairie maid Cisley, of ten toppings gests.[E292]
50.
¶ Maies abstract.
Chap. 39.
¶ Two other short remembrances.
51.
Maies husbandrie.
Chap. 40.
52.
¶ Junes abstract.
Chap. 41.
A lesson of hopyard.
53.
¶ Junes husbandrie.
Chap. 42.
A lesson where and when to plant good Hopyard.
54.
¶ Julies abstract.
Chap. 43.
55.
¶ Julies husbandrie.
Chap. 44.
56.
¶ Augusts abstract.
Chap. 45.
Works after haruest.[15]
57.
¶ Augusts husbandrie.
Chap. 46.
Works after Haruest.[13]
58.
¶ Corne Haruest equally deuided into ten partes.
Chap. 47.[1]
59.
¶ A briefe conclusion, where you may see, Ech word in the verse, to begin with a T.
Chap. 48.
60.
[Mans age deuided into twelue seauens. 1614.]
Chap. 49.
61.
¶ Another diuision of the nature of mans age.
Chap. 50.
62.
Comparing good husband with vnthrift his brother, The better discerneth the tone from the tother.[E380]
Chap. 51
63.
¶ A comparison betweene Champion countrie and seuerall.
Chap. 52.
64.
¶ The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.[E394]
Chap. 53. [1]
64.*
To light a candell before the Deuill.[E403]
65.
¶ A sonet against a slanderous tongue.[E406]
¶ Chap. 54.
66.
¶ A sonet vpon the Authors first seuen yeeres seruice.
Chap. 55.
67.
¶ The Authours Dialogue betweene two Bachelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.[E412]
Chap. 56.
Thus endeth the booke of Husbandrie.
68.
To the right Honorable and my especiall good Ladie and Maistres, the Ladie Paget.[E424]
69.
¶ To the Reader.[1]
70.
¶ The Preface to the booke of Huswiferie.
71.
As true as thy faith, Thus huswiferie saith.
72.
¶ A description of Huswife and Huswiferie.[E428]
73.
Instructions to Huswiferie.[E429]
74.
A digression.
75.
¶ Huswiferie.
¶ Morning workes.[1]
76.
¶ Breakefast doings.
77.
¶ Huswifely admonitions.
78.
¶ Brewing.
79.
¶ Baking.[E439]
80.
¶ Cookerie.
81.
¶ Dairie.
82.
¶ Scouring.
83.
Washing.
84.
Malting.
85.
¶ Dinner matters.
86.
¶ Afternoone workes.
87.
¶ Euening workes.
88.
¶ Supper matters.
89.
¶ After supper matters.
90.
¶ The ploughmans feasting daies.
91.
¶ The good huswifelie Physicke.
92.
¶ The good motherlie nurserie.
93.
¶ Thinke on the poore.
94.
¶ A comparison betweene good huswiferie and euill.[E461]
95.
For men a perfect warning How childe shall come by larning.
96.
¶ The description of a womans age by vi. times xiiij yeeres prentiship, with a lesson to the same.
A Lesson
97.
¶ The Inholders posie.[1]
98.
¶ Certaine Table Lessons.
99.
¶ Lessons for waiting servants.
100.
¶ Husbandly posies for the hall.
101.
¶ Posies for the parler.
102.
¶ Posies for the gests chamber.
103.
¶ Posies for thine owne bed chamber.
104.
¶ A Sonet to the Ladie Paget.
105.
¶ Principall points of Religion.
106.
¶ The Authors beleefe.
107.
Of the omnipotencie of God, and debilitie of man.
108.
Of Almes deedes.
Eleemosyna prodest homini in vita, in morte, & post mortem.
109.
Of malus homo.
Malus homo, out of S. Augustine.
110.
Of two sorts of people.
Of two sorts of men, the tone good, and tother bad, out of S. Augustine.
111.
Of what force the devil is if he be resisted.
112.
¶ Eight of S. Barnards verses, both in Latine and English with one note to them both.[1][E485]
113.
¶ Of the Authors linked Verses departing from Court to the Country.[1]
114.
The Authors life.[1]
FINIS.
[115.]
Of Fortune.
Fortuna non est semper amica, Superbiam igitur semper devita.
A Table of the points of Huswiferie mentioned in this Booke.
¶ A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie.
¶ To the right honorable and my speciall good lord and maister, the lord Paget, Lord priuie seale.
¶ Concordia paruæ res crescunt Discordia maximæ dilabuntur.
¶ August.
¶ September.
¶ October.
¶ November.
¶ Decembre.
¶ Christmas.
¶ January.
¶ Februarij.
¶ Marche.
¶ A digression from husbandrie: to a poynt or two of huswifrie.
¶ Aprill.
¶ May.
¶ June.
¶ Julii.
¶ A sonet or brief rehersall of the properties of the twelue monethes afore rehersed.
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
GLOSSARY.
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