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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.

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.

Thomas Tusser
Lying, Garden, Yards
Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.38

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

Thomas Tusser
Agriculture, Debt, Prison
Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.114

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser
Years, Shining, Age

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser
Sadness, Misery, Borrowing

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