The Ladder to thrift. chap. 8. (Book 8)
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TO take chy calling thankfully,
and shoonne the path to beggery.
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To grudge in youth no drudgery,
to come by knowledge perfectly.
Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and other needefull matters : together with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the saide moneth : with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the better understandinge of the booke / set forth by Thomas Tusser ...
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- Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and other needefull matters : together with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the saide moneth : with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the better understandinge of the booke / set forth by Thomas Tusser ...
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- Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.
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- 1573.
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- Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
- Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps & gardening, and other needefull matters : together with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the saide moneth : with a table & a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the better understandinge of the booke / set forth by Thomas Tusser ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14064.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2025.
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To compt no trauell slauery,
that brings in peny sauerly.
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To folow profit earnestly,
but medle not with pilfery.
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To get by honest practisy,
and kepe thy gettings couertly.
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To lash not out too lashingly,
for feare of pynching penury.
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To get good plot to occupy,
and store & vse it husbandly.
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To shew to landlorde curtesy,
and kepe thy couenants orderly.
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To holde that thine is lawfully,
for stoutnes, or for flatery.
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To wed good wyfe for company,
and liue in wedlocke honestly.
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To furnish house with housholdry,
and make prouision skilfully.
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To ioyne to wyfe good famely,
and none to keepe for brauery.
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To suffer none liue idlely,
for feare of idle knauery.
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To courage wife in huswifery,
and vse well doers gentely.
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To keepe no more but needefully,
and coumpt excesse vnsauery
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To rayse betimes vp readely,
both snorting Hob & Margery.
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To walke thy pastures vsually,
to spie ill neighbours suttlety.
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To hate reuengement hastely,
for loesing loue & amity.
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To liue by neighbour neighbourly,
and shew him no discurtesy.
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To answer stranger ciuely,
but shew him not thy secresie.
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To vse no frynd disceitfully,
and offer no man villeny.
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To learne how foe to pacifie,
but trust him not too trustely.
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To keepe thy touch substancially,
and in thy worde vse constancy.
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To make thy bandes aduisedly,
and come not bond through suerty.
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To hate to liue in infamy,
through craft & liuing naughtely.
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To banish house of blasphemy,
least Crosses crosse vnluckely.
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To stop mischance, through polecy,
for chansyng too vnhappely.
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To beare thy crosses paciently,
for worldly things are slippery.
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To trayne thy childe vp vertuously,
that vertue, vice may qualify.
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To brydle wilde otes fantazye,
to spend thee naught vnthriftely.
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To pray to god continually,
to ayde thee against thine enemy.
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To spend the Saboth holyly,
and help the poore in misery.
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To liue in conscience quietly,
and keepe thy selfe from malady.
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To ease thy sicknes spedely,
er help be past recouery.
Thease be the steppes vnfaynedly:
to clyme to thrift by husbandry.
Notes
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* 1.1
The lesson.