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 ...
- Author
- Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.
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- [London] :: Imprinted at London in Flete strete within Temple barre at the signe of the Hand & Starre, by Richard Tottill,
- 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 March 28, 2025.
Contents
- title page
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¶The Table contayning the contentes of thys booke w
t a lesson how to cōfer euery abstract wt his moneth. - author's note
- To the ryght honorable & my speci∣all good Lord & Master, the Lord Paget of Beudesert. Chap. 1.
- The authors epistle to the late Lorde william Paget, wherein be doth discourse of his owne bringing vp, and of the goodnes of the sayd Lorde his Master vnto him, and the occasion of this his booke, thus set forthe of his owne long prac∣tise. Chap. 2.
- To the Reader Chap. 3.
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The Preface. Chap.
4. -
The commodities of Husbandry. chap.
5. -
The prayse of Husbandry. Chap
6. - The description of husbandry. Chap. 7.
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The Ladder to thrift. chap.
8. - Good Husbandly lessons worthy to be followed of suche as will thriue. Chap. 9.
- An habitation enforced aduisedly to be followed better late then neuer: made vpon these wordes, sit downe Robin and rest thee. Cap. 10.
- Septembers abstract. Cap. 11.
- Chap. 12.
- Octobers abstract. Chap. 13.
- Octobers husbandry. Chap. 14.
- Nouembers abstract. Chap. 15.
- Nouembers Husbandry. Chap. 16.
- Decembers abstract. Chap. 17.
- December, Husbandry. Chap. 18.
- A digression to hospitalitie. Chap. 19.
- A discription of time and they are▪ Chap. 20.
- A description of life & riches. Chap. 21.
- A description of house keeping. Chap. 22.
- A description of Christmas. Chap. 23.
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A discription of apt time to spend. chap.
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Against fantasticall scruplenesse. chap.
25. - Christmas husbandly fare. chap. 26.
- A Christmas Karrol of the byrth of Christ, vppon the tune of King Salomon. Chap. 27.
- Ianuaries abstract. Chap. 28.
- Ianuaries Husbandry. Chap. 29.
- Februaries abstract. Chap. 30.
- Februaries Husbandry. Chap. 31.
- Marches abstract. Chap. 32.
- Marches Husbandry. Chap. 33.
- Aprills abstract. Chap. 34.
- Aprills Husbandrie. chap. 35.
- Mayes abstract. Chap. 36.
- Mayes Husbandrie. Chap. 37.
- Iunes abstract. Chap. 38.
- Iunes husbandrie. Chap. 39,
- Iulies abstract. Chap. 40.
- Iulies husbandry. Cap. 41.
- August abstract. Chap. 42,
- August husbandrie. Chap. 43.
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A brief conclusion where yow maye see, eache worde in the verse to begin with a T. Cap. 44. -
Mans age deuided, here ye haue, By prentiships, from birth to his graue. Chap. 45. -
A briefe declaration, of mannes inclination. Chap. 46. - ¶Comparing good husbād, with vnthrift his brother the better decernith, the tone from the tother. Chap. 47.
- A Comparison betweene Champion & Seueral. Chap. 48.
- The dialog betweene two batchelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.
- To the right honorable and my espe∣cial good Lady and Mistris the Lady Paget.
- The preface of the booke of Huswifrie.
- ¶As true as thy faith, Thus huswifrie saith.
- A description of huswife and Huswiferye.
- Enstructions to Huswiferie.
- A Digression.
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Now listen good huswiues, what huswifrie here, set out for a daye, as it should for a yere. - The plowmans feasting daies.
- The good Huswifelye Phisicke.
- The good motherly Nurserye.
- ¶Thinke on the poore.
- A Sonet to the Lady Paget.
- A Comparison betweene good Huswiferie & euill.
- The description of womans age by .vi times xiiii. yeres prentiship, with a lesson to the same.
- Husbandly Poesies for the hall.
- Poesies for the Parler.
- Posies for the gests Chamber.
- Posies for thine owne bed Chamber.
- Certaine table lessons.
- ¶Table lessons for wayting seruants.
- Principall pointes of Religion.
- The Auctors beliefe.
- Of the omnipotentie of God, and debilitie of man.
- Eleemosina prodest homini in vita, in morte & post mortem.
- Malus homo.
- Of two sortes of men, tone good, and tother bad.
- Diabolo cum resistitur, est vt formica, Cū vero eius suggestio recipitur, fortis est vt Leo
- The description of an enuious & naughty neighbour.
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Fortuna non est semper amica, Superbiam igitur semper deuita. - Of thauthors departing from court to the Countrey.
- The Auctours life.
- Faultes escaped in the printinge.
- The table to the booke of Huswifery▪