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 ...

¶Thinke on the poore.

REmember the poore, y^t for Gods sake do call, for God both rewardeth, & blesseth with all. Take this in good part, what soeuer thou be, and wish me no wurse, then I wishe vnto the.

For men a perfect warning, what childe shall come by learning.

AL you that faine would learne, y^e perfect way, to haue your childe, in musik some thing seene aske Nature first, what thereto she doth say. ere further sute, ye make to such a Queene. For doubtlesse (Grossum caput) is not he, of whom the learned Muses, seene will be.

Once tried that nature, trim hath done her part, and Lady Musicke, farre in loue withall: Be wise who first, doth teach thy childe that art, least homely breaker, marre fine ambling Ball. Not rod in madbraines hand, is that can helpe, but gentle skill, doth make the proper whelpe.

where choise is harde, count good for well a fine, skill mixt with will, is he that teacheth best, Let this suffise▪ for teaching childe of thine: chuse quickly well, for all the lingering rest. Mistaught at first, how seldome proueth well? trim taught (O God) how shortly doth excell?

Although as shippes, must tarry winde & tide, and perfect howers, abide their stinted time, So likewise, though of learning (dayly tride) space must be had, ere wilte may there to clime: Yet easy steps, and perfect way to trust, doth cause good speede, confesse of force we must.

Thus in the childe, though wit inough we finde, and teacher good, neare han••, or other where: And time as apt, as may be thought with minde, nor cause, in such thing, much to doubt or feare: Yet coeking Māms, & shifting Dads frō schooles, make pregnant wittes, to proue vnlearned fooles.

Ere learning come, to haue first art thou taught, apt learning childe, apt time that thing to frame, Apt cunning man to teache, else all is naught, apt parents glad, to bring to passe the same. On such apt ground, the Musks loue to builde, this lesson learne: adewe else learned childe.