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Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie
Thomas, 1524?-1580 Tusser and Sidney John Hervon Herrtage
Rhyming couplets ran this Tudor farm. Thomas Tusser's verse almanac delivers five hundred points of good husbandry month by month, from plowing and sowing to the housewife's duties, all in memorizable meter. This scholarly edition adds his biography and his last will. The book English farmers quoted for three centuries. Agriculture you can recite.
Every copy includes a printable PDF edition, a beautifully typeset book you can print, mark up in the margins, and keep on your shelf. Yours the moment you own it.
345 chapters
- 1FIUE HUNDRED POINTES
- 2OF
- 3GOOD HUSBANDRIE.
- 4THOMAS TUSSER.
- 5W. PAYNE, ESQ., AND SIDNEY J. HERRTAGE, ESQ., B.A.
- 6PREFACE.
- 7CONTENTS.
- 8BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.
- 9THE LAST WILL OF THOMAS TUSSER.
- 10A Lesson.
- 11A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month, how to finde out huswiferie verses by the Pilcrowe, and Champion from Woodland.
- 12The Table of Husbandrie.
- 13A Table of the pointes of husbandrie mentioned in this booke.
- 14FINIS.
- 151.
- 16¶ 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.
- 17Chap. 1.
- 182.
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