THE GOOD HUSWIFELY PHYSIC.

GOOD huswives provide, ere an' sickness do come,
Of sundry good things, in her house to have some:
Good aqua composita, and vinegar tart,
Rose-water, and treacle, to comfort the heart.
Cold herbs in her garden, for agues that burn,
That over strong heat, to good temper may turn,
White endive and succory, with spinage enough,
All such, with good pot herbs, should follow the
Get water of fumitory, liver to cool, [plough.
And others the like, or else go like a fool.
Conserves of barberry, quinces, and such,
With sirops, that easeth the sickly so much.
Ask Medicus counsel, ere med'cine ye make,
And honour that man for necessity's sake.
Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost,
Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost.
Good broth and good keeping do much, now and
Good diet with wisdom, best comforteth man. [than,
In health, to be stirring, shall profit thee best;
In sickness hate trouble, seek quiet and rest.
Remember thy soul, let no fancy prevail,
Make ready to God-ward, let faith never quail.
The sooner thyself thou submittest to God,
The sooner he ceaseth, to scourge with his rod.

GOOD MOTHERLY NURSERY.

Good huswives take pain, and do count it good luck, To make their own breast their own child to give suck.

Though wrauling and rocking, be noisome so near,
Yet lost by ill nursing, is worser to hear.
But one thing I warn thee, let huswife be nurse,
Lest husband do find thee, too frank with his purse.
What Hilback and Filbelly maketh away,
That help to make good, or else look for a fray.
Give child that is fitly, give baby the big,
Give hardness to youth, and to rope-ripe a twig.
We find it not spoken so often for naught,
That children were better unborn than untaught.
Some cockneys with cocking, are made very fools,
Fit neither for 'prentice, for plough, nor for schools.
Teach child to ask blessing, serve God, and to church,
Then bless as a mother, else bless him with birch.
Thou huswife thus doing, what further shall need?
But all men to call thee good mother indeed.

THINK ON THE POOR.

REMEMBER the poor, that for God's sake do call,
For God both rewardeth and blesseth withall.
Take this in good part, whatsoever thou be,
And wish me no worse, than I wish unto thee.

¶ A COMPARISON BETWEEN GOOD HUSWIFERY AND EVIL.

Comparing together good huswife with bad, The knowledge of either, the better is had.

1. ILL huswifery lieth

Till nine of the clock:
Good huswifery trieth,
To rise with the cock.

16. Ill huswifery letteth

The devil take all :

Good huswifery setteth
Good brag of a small.

Good huswife good fame hath, of best in the town;

Ill huswife ill name hath, of every clown.

Thus endeth the Book of Huswifery.

FOR MEN A PERFECT WARNING,

WHAT CHILD SHALL COME BY LEARNING.

1. ALL you that fain would learn the perfect way, To have your child, in music something seen; Ask Nature first, what thereto she doth say,

Ere further suit ye make to such a queen :
For doubtless (grossum caput) is not he,
Of whom the learned Muses, seen will be.

2. Once tried, that Nature, trim, hath done her part, And lady Music, far in love withall,

Be wise, who first doth teach thy child that art, Lest homely breaker mar fine ambling Ball. Not rode in mad brains hand, is that can help, But gentle skill doth make the proper whelp.

3. Where choice is hard, count good for well a fine, Skill, mixt with will, is he that teacheth best ; Let this suffice for teaching child of thine,

Chuse quickly well, for all the lingering rest. Mistaught at first, how seldom proveth well? Trim taught (O God) how shortly doth excell ?

4. Although as ships, must tarry wind and tide, And perfect hours, abide their stinted time: So likewise, though of learning daily tri'd,

Space, must be had, ere wit may thereto climb; Yet easy steps and perfect way to trust, Doth cause good speed, confess of force we must.

5. Thus in the child, though wit enough we find, And teacher good, near hand, or other where ; And time as apt, as may be thought with mind,

Nor cause in such thing much to doubt or fear: Yet cocking Mams, and shifting Dads from schools, Make pregnant wits, to prove unlearned fools.

6. Ere learning come, to have, first art thou taught, Apt learning child, apt time that thing to frame; Apt cunning man to teach, else all is naught, Apt parents, glad to bring to pass the same. On such apt ground, the Muses love to build, This lesson learn: -adieu else, learned child.

¶ THE DESCRIPTION OF A WOMAN'S AGE,

BY SIX TIMES FOURTEEN YEARS 'PRENTICESHIP,

WITH A LESSON TO THE SAME.

14. Two first seven years, for a rod they do whine, 28. Two next as a pearl in the world they do shine. 42. Two next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, 56. Two next for matrons or drudges they serve. 70. Two next doth crave a staff for a stay, 84. Two next a bier to fetch them away.

A LESSON.

Then purchase some pelf,
By fifty and three:
Or buckle thyself,

A drudge for to be.

THE INHOLDER'S POSY.

Ar meals, my friend, who vict'leth here, and sitteth with his host, [lesser cost. Shall both be sure of better cheer, and 'scape with

But he that will attendance have, a chamber to himself, [worldly pelf. Must more regard what pains do crave, than pass of

Let no man look to purchase Lynn, with pinching by the way, [to pay. But lay before he takes his inn, to make his purse

For nothing pay and nothing pray, in inn it is the guise; [if you be wise. Where no point gain, there no point pain, think this

For toiling much, and spoiling much, great charge, small gains or none, [the beggar's bone. Soon sets thine host at Needham's shore, to crave

Foreseeing this, come day or night, take up what place ye please, [thine ease. Use mine as thine, let Fortune spite, and boldly take

1 CERTAIN TABLE LESSONS.

1. FRIEND, eat less, and drink less, and buy thee a knife,

Else look for a carver, not always too rife. Some, kniveless, their daggers for bravery wear, That often for surfeiting, need not to fear.

2. At dinner and supper, the table doth crave,
Good fellowly neighbour, good manners to have.
Advise thee well therefore, ere tongue be too free,
Or slap sauce be noted, too saucy to be.

3. If any thing wanteth, or seemeth amiss,
To call for, or shew it, good manner it is;
But busy fault-finder, and saucy withall,
Is roister like ruffian, no manner at all.

4. Some cutteth the napkin, some trenchers will nick;
Some sheweth like folly, in many a trick:
Let such apeish body, so toying at meat,
Go toy with his noddy-like ape in the street.

5. Some cometh unsent for, not for thy good cheer,
But sent as a spiall, to listen and hear;
Which being once known, for a knave let him
For knave will be knavish, his nature is so.

¶ LESSONS FOR WAITING SERVANTS.

go;

1. ONE diligent serviture, skilfull to wait,
More comelieth thy table, than other some eight,
That stand for to listen, or gazing about,
Not minding their duty, within or without.

2. Such waiter is faulty, that standeth so by, Unmindfull of service, forgetting his eye: If master to such give a bone for to gnaw, He doth but his office to teach such a daw.

3. Such serviture, also, deserveth a check,
That runneth out fisking, with meat in his beck:
Such ravening puttocks for victuals so trim,
Would have a good master, to puttock with him.

4. Who daily can suffer, or else can afford, [board? His meat, so upsnatched, that comes from his So teazed with cormorants, here and there some, And others to want it that orderly come.

5. Good serviture weigheth (once dinner begun) What asketh attendance, and what to be done : So purchasing master a praise with the best, Gets praise to himself, both of master and guest.

HUSBANDLY POSIES FOR THE HALL.

1. FRIEND, here I dwell, and here I have a little worldly pelf, [on myself. Which on my friend I keep to spend, as well as

2. Whatever fare you hap to find, take welcome for the best, [of the rest. That having then, disdain thou not, for wanting

3. Backbiting talk, that flattering blabs, know wily how to blenge, [en'my will revenge. The wise doth note, the friend doth hate, the

4. The wise will spend, or give or lend, yet keep to have in store, [upon no more. If fools may have from hand to mouth, they pass

5. Where ease is sought, at length we see, that plenty waxeth scant, [often want. Who careless live, go borrow must, or else full

6. The world doth think the wealthy man, is he that least shall need, [speed. But true it is, the godly man, is he that best shall

1 POSIES FOR THE PARLOUR.

1. As hatred is the serpent's noisome rod; So friendship is the loving gift of God.

2. The drunken friend is friendship very evil; The frantic friend is friendship for the devil.

3. The quiet friend, all one in word and deed, Great comfort is, like ready gold at need.

4. With brawling fools, that wraul for every wrong, Firm friendship never can continue long.

5. In time that man shall seldom friendship miss, That weigh'th what thing, touch kept in friendship is.

6. Oft times a friend is got with easy cost,

Which used evil is as quickly lost.

7. Hast thou a friend, as heart may wish at will? Then use him so, to have his friendship still.

8. Would'st have a friend, would'st know what friend is best?

Have God thy friend, who passeth all the rest.

POSIES FOR THE GUEST'S CHAMBER.

1. THE sloven and the careless man, the roynish nothing nice, [suffered twice. To lodge in chamber, comely deckt, are seldom

2. With curtain some make scabbard clean, with coverlid their shoe, [use to do. All dirt and mire, some wallow bed, as spaniels

3. Though boots and spurs be ne'er so foul, what passeth some thereon, [tumbling thereupon. What place they foul, what thing they tear, by

4. Foul male some cast on fair board, be carpet ne'er so clean, [man is seen. What manners careless master hath, by knave his

5. Some make the chimney chamber-pot, to smell like filthy sink, [houses stink?

Yet who so bold, so soon to say, faugh! how these

6. They therefore such, as make no force, what comely thing they spill, [against their will. Must have a cabin like themselves, although

7. But gentlemen will gently do, where gentleness is shew'd [beshrew'd. Observing this, with love abide, or else hence all

POSIES FOR THINE OWN BEDCHAMBER.

1. WHAT wisdom more, what better life, than pleaseth God to send, [God to lend. What worldly goods, what longer use, than pleaseth 2. What better fare, than well content, agreeing with thy wealth, [and in health?

What better guest than trusty friend, in sickness 8. What better bed than conscience good, to pass the night with sleep, [to keep? What better work, than daily care, from sin thyself 4. What better thought, than think on God, and daily him to serve, [sterve? What better gift than to the poor, that ready be to

5. What greater praise of God and man, than mercy for to shew, [to few? Who merciless, shall mercy find, that mercy shews 6. What worse despair, than loth to die, for fear to go to hell? [Christ in heaven to dwell? What greater faith than trust in God, through

A SONNET TO THE LADY PAGET.
SOME pleasures take,
And cannot give,

But only make,

Poor thanks their shift: Some meaning well, In debt do live, And cannot tell, Where else to shift.

Some knock, and fain
Would ope the door,
To learn the vain,
Good turn to praise :
Some shew good face,
And be but poor;
Yet have a grace

Good fame to raise.

Some owe and give,
Yet still in debt,
And so must live,

For aught I know:
Some wish to pay,

And cannot get; But night and day, Must still more owe.

Even so must I, for service past,
Still wish you good, while life doth last.

PRINCIPAL POINTS OF RELIGION.

1. To pray to God continually, 2. To learn to know him rightfully, 3. To honour God in Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Father in his majesty, The Son in his humanity, The Holy Ghost's benignity, Three persons, one in Deity. 4. To serve him always, holily, 5. To ask him all thing needfully, 6. To praise him in all company, 7. To love him alway, heartily, 8. To dread him alway, christianly, 9. To ask him mercy, penitently, 10. To trust him alway, faithfully, 11. To obey him alway, willingly, 12. To abide him alway, patiently, 13. To thank him alway, thankfully, 14. To live here alway, virtuously, 15. To use thy neighbour, honestly, 16. To look for death still, presently, 17. To help the poor, in misery, 18. To hope for Heav'n's felicity, 19. To have faith, hope, and charity, 20. To count this life but vanity, Be points of christianity.

1 THE AUTHOR'S BELIEF.

1. THIS is my stedfast creed, my faith, and all mytrust, [mild, and just: That in the heavens there is a God, most mighty, A God above all Gods, a King above all Kings, The Lord of Lords, chief Governor, of heaven and earthly things.