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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie
Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

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  1. 1 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.
  2. 2 THE LAST WILL OF THOMAS TUSSER.
  3. 3 A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month,& how to finde out huswiferie verses by the Pilcrowe, and Champion from Woodland.
  4. 4 A Table of the pointes of husbandrie mentioned in this booke.
  5. 5 FINIS.
  6. 6 ¶ 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.
  7. 7 Chap. 1.
  8. 8 ¶ 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.
  9. 9 Chap. 2.
  10. 10 Chap. 3.
  11. 11 ¶ An Introduction to the Booke of Husbandrie.[1]
  12. 12 Chap. 4.
  13. 13 ¶ A Preface to the buier of this booke.
  14. 14 Chap. 5.
  15. 15 Chap. 6.
  16. 16 Chap. 7.
  17. 17 Chap. 8.
  18. 18 Chap. 9.
  19. 19 ¶ Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.
  20. 20 Chap. 10.
  21. 21 ¶ An habitation inforced better late than neuer, vpon these words Sit downe Robin and rest thee.[E57]
  22. 22 Chap. 11.
  23. 23 Chap. 12.
  24. 24 A description of the properties of windes all the times of the yeere.
  25. 25 Chap. 13.
  26. 26 Chap. 14.
  27. 27 Chap. 15.
  28. 28 ¶ Other short remembrances.[12]
  29. 29 Chap. 15.
  30. 30 A digression to husbandlie furniture.
  31. 31 [16 contd.]
  32. 32 Chap. 16.
  33. 33 ¶ Other short remembrances.[11]
  34. 34 Chap. 17.
  35. 35 A digression to the usage of diuers countries, concerning Tillage.
  36. 36 Chap. 18
  37. 37 ¶ Other short remembrances.
  38. 38 Chap. 19.
  39. 39 Chap. 20.
  40. 40 ¶ Other short remembrances.
  41. 41 Chap. 21.
  42. 42 Chap. 22.[1]
  43. 43 ¶ A description of time, and the yeare.
  44. 44 Chap. 23.
  45. 45 ¶ A description of life and riches.
  46. 46 Chap. 24.
  47. 47 Chap. 25.
  48. 48 ¶ A description of the feast of the birth of Christ, commonly called Christmas.[1]
  49. 49 Chap. 26.
  50. 50 ¶ A description of apt time to spend.
  51. 51 Chap. 27.
  52. 52 ¶ Against fantasticall scruplenes.
  53. 53 Chap. 28.
  54. 54 Chap. 29.
  55. 55 ¶ A Christmas Caroll of the birth of Christ vpon the tune of King Salomon.[E142]
  56. 56 Chap. 30.
  57. 57 Chap. 31.
  58. 58 ¶ Other short remembrances.
  59. 59 Of trees or fruites to be set or remooued.
  60. 60 Chap. 32.
  61. 61 Chap. 33.
  62. 62 ¶ Other short remembrances.
  63. 63 Chap. 34.
  64. 64 Chap. 35.
  65. 65 ¶ Other short remembrances.
  66. 66 Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen.
  67. 67 Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.
  68. 68 Herbes and rootes to boile or to butter.
  69. 69 Strowing herbes of all sortes.
  70. 70 Herbes, branches, and flowers, for windowes and pots.
  71. 71 Herbes to still in Sommer.
  72. 72 Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physick, not rehersed before.
  73. 73 Chap. 36.
  74. 74 Chap. 37.
  75. 75 Chap. 38.
  76. 76 ¶ A lesson for dairie maid Cisley, of ten toppings gests.[E292]
  77. 77 Chap. 39.
  78. 78 ¶ Two other short remembrances.
  79. 79 Chap. 40.
  80. 80 Chap. 41.
  81. 81 A lesson of hopyard.
  82. 82 Chap. 42.
  83. 83 A lesson where and when to plant good Hopyard.
  84. 84 Chap. 43.
  85. 85 Chap. 44.
  86. 86 Chap. 45.
  87. 87 Works after haruest.[15]
  88. 88 Chap. 46.
  89. 89 Works after Haruest.[13]
  90. 90 ¶ Corne Haruest equally deuided into ten partes.
  91. 91 Chap. 47.[1]
  92. 92 ¶ A briefe conclusion, where you may see, Ech word in the verse, to begin with a T.
  93. 93 Chap. 48.
  94. 94 [Mans age deuided into twelue seauens. 1614.]
  95. 95 Chap. 49.
  96. 96 ¶ Another diuision of the nature of mans age.
  97. 97 Chap. 50.
  98. 98 Comparing good husband with vnthrift his brother, The better discerneth the tone from the tother.[E380]
  99. 99 Chap. 51
  100. 100 ¶ A comparison betweene Champion countrie and seuerall.
  101. 101 Chap. 52.
  102. 102 ¶ The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.[E394]
  103. 103 Chap. 53. [1]
  104. 104 To light a candell before the Deuill.[E403]
  105. 105 ¶ A sonet against a slanderous tongue.[E406]
  106. 106 ¶ Chap. 54.
  107. 107 ¶ A sonet vpon the Authors first seuen yeeres seruice.
  108. 108 Chap. 55.
  109. 109 67.
  110. 110 ¶ The Authours Dialogue betweene two Bachelers, of wiuing and thriuing by Affirmation and Obiection.[E412]
  111. 111 Chap. 56.
  112. 112 Thus endeth the booke of Husbandrie.
  113. 113 To the right Honorable and my especiall good Ladie and Maistres, the Ladie Paget.[E424]
  114. 114 ¶ To the Reader.[1]
  115. 115 ¶ The Preface to the booke of Huswiferie.
  116. 116 As true as thy faith, Thus huswiferie saith.
  117. 117 ¶ A description of Huswife and Huswiferie.[E428]
  118. 118 Instructions to Huswiferie.[E429]
  119. 119 A digression.
  120. 120 ¶ Huswiferie.
  121. 121 ¶ Morning workes.[1]
  122. 122 ¶ Breakefast doings.
  123. 123 ¶ Huswifely admonitions.
  124. 124 ¶ Brewing.
  125. 125 ¶ Baking.[E439]
  126. 126 ¶ Cookerie.
  127. 127 ¶ Dairie.
  128. 128 ¶ Scouring.
  129. 129 Washing.
  130. 130 Malting.
  131. 131 ¶ Dinner matters.
  132. 132 ¶ Afternoone workes.
  133. 133 ¶ Euening workes.
  134. 134 ¶ Supper matters.
  135. 135 ¶ After supper matters.
  136. 136 ¶ The ploughmans feasting daies.
  137. 137 ¶ The good huswifelie Physicke.
  138. 138 ¶ The good motherlie nurserie.
  139. 139 ¶ Thinke on the poore.
  140. 140 ¶ A comparison betweene good huswiferie and euill.[E461]
  141. 141 For men a perfect warning How childe shall come by larning.
  142. 142 ¶ The description of a womans age by vi. times xiiij yeeres prentiship, with a lesson to the same.
  143. 143 A Lesson
  144. 144 ¶ The Inholders posie.[1]
  145. 145 ¶ Certaine Table Lessons.
  146. 146 ¶ Lessons for waiting servants.
  147. 147 ¶ Husbandly posies for the hall.
  148. 148 ¶ Posies for the parler.
  149. 149 ¶ Posies for the gests chamber.
  150. 150 ¶ Posies for thine owne bed chamber.
  151. 151 ¶ A Sonet to the Ladie Paget.
  152. 152 ¶ Principall points of Religion.
  153. 153 ¶ The Authors beleefe.
  154. 154 Of the omnipotencie of God, and debilitie of man.
  155. 155 Eleemosyna prodest homini in vita, in morte, & post mortem.
  156. 156 Malus homo, out of S. Augustine.
  157. 157 Of two sorts of men, the tone good, and tother bad, out of S. Augustine.
  158. 158 Of what force the devil is if he be resisted.
  159. 159 ¶ Eight of S. Barnards verses, both in Latine and English with one note to them both.[1][E485]
  160. 160 ¶ Of the Authors linked Verses departing from Court to the Country.[1]
  161. 161 The Authors life.[1]
  162. 162 FINIS.
  163. 163 Of Fortune.
  164. 164 Fortuna non est semper amica, Superbiam igitur semper devita.
  165. 165 A Table of the points of Huswiferie mentioned in this Booke.
  166. 166 ¶ A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie.
  167. 167 ¶ To the right honorable and my speciall good lord and maister, the lord Paget, Lord priuie seale.
  168. 168 ¶ Concordia paruæ res crescunt Discordia maximæ dilabuntur.
  169. 169 ¶ August.
  170. 170 ¶ September.
  171. 171 ¶ October.
  172. 172 ¶ November.
  173. 173 ¶ Decembre.
  174. 174 ¶ Christmas.
  175. 175 ¶ January.
  176. 176 ¶ Februarij.
  177. 177 ¶ Marche.
  178. 178 ¶ A digression from husbandrie: to a poynt or two of huswifrie.
  179. 179 ¶ Aprill.
  180. 180 ¶ May.
  181. 181 ¶ June.
  182. 182 ¶ Julii.
  183. 183 ¶ A sonet or brief rehersall of the properties of the twelue monethes afore rehersed.
  184. 184 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
  185. 185 GLOSSARY.