40 Quotes by Thomas Tusser

Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand; Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand. Make dry over-head both hovel and shack. Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run; Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun. Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon; And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on. At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes; And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes; Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown; The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.