Hundreth good poyntes of husbandrie : reprinted verbatim ... with all its inaccuracy of orthography, punctuation, etc., from the original edition of 1557; being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the middle of the sixteenth century. To which is added, The life of Thomas Tusser, written by himself, in verse; and a glossary.

  • Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Hundreth good poyntes of husbandrie : reprinted verbatim ... with all its inaccuracy of orthography, punctuation, etc., from the original edition of 1557; being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the middle of the sixteenth century. To which is added, The life of Thomas Tusser, written by himself, in verse; and a glossary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3Lffe of gliomas JCussct, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, IN VERSE* 1. Now, gentle friend, if thou be kind, Disdain thou not, although the lot, Will now with me no better be, Than doth appear : Nor let it grieve, that thus I live, But rather guess, for quietness, As others do, so do I too, Content me here. 2. By leave and love of God above, I mind to shew, in verses few, How through the briers, my youthful years, Have run their race ; And further say, why thus I stay And mind to live, as bee in hive. Full bent to spend my life t’an end, In this same place, t 3. It came to pass, that horn I was, Of lineage good, of gentle blood, In Essex layer, in village fair, That Rivenhall bight: J Which village lied, by Banktree side ; There spend did I mine infancy, There then my name, in honest fame. Remain’d in sight. 4. I yet but young, no speech of tongue, Nor tears withal], that often fall, From mother’s eyes, when child outcries, To part her fro, Could pity make, good father take, But out I must, to song he thrust, Say what I would, do what I could, His mind was so. * This poetical Life appears to have been first added to the edition of his Husbandry of 1573, and is the chief source from whence biogra- phers have drawn their supplies. •f The author means London. J Rivenhall, near Kelvedon and Witbam, in Essex, about forty miles from London.