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PALLADIUS DE EE RUSTIGA. 
 
THE MIDDLE -ENGLISH TRANSLATION 
 
 OF 
 
 PALLADIUS DE RE RU8TICA 
 
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 ^DITBD WITH CBmOAL AND KXPLANATOBT NOTES 
 BY 
 
 Mark Liddell. 
 
 PART I - TEXT. 
 
 BERLIN 
 
 E. EBERING 
 1896. 
 
TO 
 
 MT TEACHEK AND FRIEND 
 
 ARTHUR S. NAPIEE. 
 
Temporary Preface. 
 
 If the text of the Middle-English Falladius here pre- 
 sented needs an apology, it may be found in the editor's 
 belief that no carefully edited Middle-English MS. can be 
 without value for the study of the history of our language 
 and literature. While the poem itself may be of little 
 literary interest, it possesses a philological importance which 
 can scarcely be overrated. Besides having a great number 
 of words not elsewhere recorded in Middle-English literature, 
 it offers important evidence as to the history of the de- 
 velopment of English syntax, which, furnished by a member 
 of Duke Humphrey's household who boasted that the Duke 
 himself had taught him verse-making and that he wrote 
 his poem at the Duke's best, cannot fail to be entitled to 
 some consideration from English scholars. Both these points 
 will be fully treated in a second part of this edition. The 
 editor hopes, also, shortly to publish a brief discussion of 
 the interesting and important words which this text contains. 
 
 As the work has hitherto been accessible only in an 
 edition quite unsuited, on account of its inaccuracies, to the 
 purposes of scientific research, it has been thought worth 
 while to make it available in a more reliable form; and 
 the Fitzwilliam MS. has been chosen because of the internal 
 evidence it offers of having been prepared for Duke Humphrey 
 himself from the author's own copy. The later version 
 found in the Bodley MS. has been used to correct the text 
 where ever there apeared to be any deviation from the 
 original of the translation. In all such cases the reading 
 of the Fitzwilliam MS. is given at the bottom of the page. 
 To make the Bodley text accessible to all who might wish 
 to use it, a careful collation of the Early English Text 
 
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 Society's edition with the Bodley MS. has been appended. 
 Another reason for adhering as closely as possible to the 
 Fitzwilliam MS., is the care with >,hich it is written, and 
 the remarkable accuracy of its spelling. That it also re- 
 presents the dialect of the author will be clearly shown in 
 the introduction. 
 
 For the use of capitals, punctuation, and expansion 
 of abbreviations, (denoted in the usual way by being printed 
 ill italic type) the editor alone is responsible. His endeavor 
 has been to make the text as accurate as possible; an^l, 
 while he knows that there may be errors in it, he hopes 
 they may be as few as repeated careful collation can 
 make them. 
 
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 that he has been able to do his work in the Bodleian 
 Library, the resources of which find such an early appreci- 
 ation in the prologue to this poem. The editor's warmest 
 thanks are due to Bodley's Librarian, who made the work 
 possible by having Earl Fitzwilliam's MS. photographed; 
 and to Mr. Madan for patient and continual help; and 
 especially to Earl Fitzwilliam for the well-known hospitality 
 of Wentworth Woodhouse. It only remains to add a 
 word expressive of the gratitude which the editor feels to 
 the late Prof. Zupitza. It would be out of place here to 
 attempt to reveal the depth and warmth of the affection 
 with which he cherishes the memory of this dearly loved 
 master and friend; yet, he can but hope that, if this work 
 does not clearly enough bear the impress of his teaching 
 and that of the pupil who now represents his ideals and 
 aims, other work may follow to be more worthy of them. 
 
 Oxford, April 1896. 
 
 Marh lAddell. 
 
TABULA. 
 
 Tabula; a, b, c. [fol. 1.] 
 
 Ayer, watir, londe, and gouernaunce: 1; c, d. 
 Probacioun of holsum ayer: 1; e. 
 Aray, axis, and instrumentis for tilmen: 21; e, f, g. 
 Ablaqueacioun or excodicacioun of vynys: 23; a. 
 Almaunttre, settyng, and good lond for hem: 27; f, g, h. 5 
 Almaundis, steepynge or watterynge forto sette: 28; a, b, c. 
 Almaundis, to make tendir and swete: 28; e, f. 
 Almaundis, to be white & longe durynge: 28; g. 
 Almaundis, to growe writen with lettris: 28; h. 
 Almaundis, to so we & graffe in ffeueryeer: 50; f. 10 
 
 Appultreen, a general reule forto sette: 40; g. 
 
 Anyse, 1 f Ache, l . <> , c. 
 
 A , Ma ' Mn S. at Sowynge. 
 
 Aborace,) lArage,) "^ ° 
 
 Assis, to rere: 70; d. 
 
 Accharnys, gaderynge: 114; a. 15 
 
 Bildynge of housynge for husbondrie: 6; e. 
 How bildyng is best to stonde: 6; f, g. 
 Bildynge of wyntir housynge: 6; h. 
 Bildynge, stuffe and craft for the same: 7; a, b. 
 Bildyng, how to white: 8; c, d. 20 
 
 Bernys, to be drie sette: 9; d. 
 10 Ms. feu«i'yeer. 
 
2 Tabula. 
 
 Bildyng thoil celar: 9; g, h. 
 
 Bildynge the wyn celar: 9; b, c. 
 
 Bildynge or makynge the cisternc: 8; f, g, & 9; a. 
 
 Bildynge stablis, & stondyngc for hors & neet: 10; a, b. 25 
 
 Bildynge of muys: 10; d, g, & 11; a, b. 
 
 Bildynge the columbaire: 10; e. 
 
 Bricke wallis, and settynge of light: 7; g, h. 
 
 Bildynge for hay, chaf, and tymber: 14; c. 
 
 Bildynge of bathis: 20; c, d, e, f, g, h, &c. BO 
 
 Bildynge the backehous: 21; d. [fol. la.] 
 
 Bricke makynge for bildynge: 79; e. 
 
 Bildynge tymber, to falle in Nouember: 114; b, &c. 
 
 The bee yerd, how hit shal stonde: [19; a.] 
 
 fflouris for been, and a chast keper: 19; b, &c. 35 
 
 Been, to be bought: 20; a, b. 
 
 Been, seeknesse and helynge of hem; 70; e, &c. 
 
 Been beth sumtyme to wel at ese: 71; a, b, c. 
 
 Been, forto trace vnto their dwellyng: 74; f, &c. 
 
 Been beth encreced in May and may not slepe 40 
 
 ffor the bridde bee that must be slayn: 79; b. 
 
 Bee hyuys castracioun: 82; e, &c. 
 
 Be war lest the bee fie fro thee: 83; a, &c. 
 
 The kyng of been to knowe, & been to hyue: 83; d. 
 
 The batayl of been to ben appesed: 83; c. 45 
 
 Been, to replenysh aftir their pestilence: 83; h. 
 
 Bee hyuys, to dense & kepe in November: 112; a, b. 
 
 Balke not thi lond, in L. at Lond. 
 
 Boolis, to chese: 66; h, &c. 
 
 Boolis, to make engender malis or femalis: 67; b. 50 
 
 Boolis, to putte to their femahs, and for 
 
 how many femalis oon male may suffise: 86; c, d. 
 
 Blissounynge of sheep: 86; e, &c. 
 
 Brennynge of pasturis: 88; g. 
 
 Barly galatike,| jBeetis, 1 . q . q 
 Barly cateryne,/ iBrasike, I 
 
 84 Reference omitted. 38 Ms. atese. 
 
 55 
 
Tabula. 3 
 
 Benys to repe and keepe: 81; d. 
 
 Cisterne, celar for oilis, wyn celar, and 
 the columbary: in B. at Bildynge 
 Cucumber, in ffeueryeer to sowe, and make swete, 60 
 
 vfithouten core, or longe as a reed: 57; c, d, e. 
 
 Tabula; c, d, e, f. [fol. 2.] 
 Cucumber is so ferd of thundir that hit wole twrne, 
 and from oil hit wul clicche: 57; e. 
 Cucumber, to make of what I'ourme thee list: 57; f. 
 Cucumber, to graffe in brere and ferule: 57; g. 65 
 
 Cornys may not be touchid in flowryng: 76; a, b. 
 Chicchis 
 
 )\ 
 
 > < 
 
 ,Colcase, 
 Cappare, 
 Coriaunder, 
 Cerfoile, 
 
 "■Cucumber, 
 
 ■ in S. at Sowe. 
 
 70 
 
 Cressis, 
 
 Cunula, 
 
 Cojwmyn, 
 
 Cicera, 
 
 Cannetis, in ffeueryeer to make: 41; g, h. 
 
 Chastyntre, plauntynge & settynge in Nouember: 111; a. 
 
 Chastyntre, settynge in ffeueryeer: 50; f. 
 
 Citurtre, tilynge in Marche: 61; d, &c. 75 
 
 Citurtre, graffynge, & of his eternyte in fruyt & Hour: 62; c. 
 
 Citurtreis bitter mary to chaunge into swete: 62; e. 
 
 Citurtre, tilynge in May: 77; e. 
 
 Citurtre, plauntynge in Juyn: 86; b. 
 
 Citur fruyt, to keepe: 62; f, g. 80 
 
 Chiritre, in October graffynge & settynge, and 
 
 What lond is good for hem: 99; h, &c. 
 
 Chiryis, to growe withoute boonys: 100; d, &c. 
 
 Remedie for rotynge and for auntis: 100; f. 
 
 Coltis or folis of hors, to knowe: 69; e. 85 
 
 Causynge of coltis teeth: 69; g. 
 
 Caluys, geldynge in diuerse wise: 77; f. 
 
 Caluys castraciouw in Juyn: 82; d. 
 
 Chese, makynge kepynge & couwfltynge: 78; e. 
 
 60 Ms. (euerjer. 
 
4 Tabula. 
 
 Chese, makynge & counfitynge in Juyn: [82; d.] 90 
 
 Carene, defrut, & sape counfit in October: 105;. a. 
 Cidonyte counfit in October: 105; d, &c. 
 
 Dalis beth not to dwells inne: 8; e. [fol. 2a.] 
 
 Dowuys, to multiplie: 10; g. 
 Dowuys to be saued from the wesil: 10; f. 95 
 
 Donge or myddyng, liow to sette: 14; d. 
 Deluynge, diuerse tymes: 15; d. 
 Deluynge aboute vynys or treen : 41 ; b, c. 
 Date bonys, to sette in October: 99; c, d. 
 Defrut, to counfit in October: 105; a. 100 
 
 I^rthe, in L. at Londe. 
 -^ Excodicacioun in vynys in Janyueer: 23; a. 
 Eryng of londe in L. at Londe. 
 Exon, to chese in Marche: 66; c, &c. 
 
 Exon of dyuerse condiciouns: 66; f, g. 105 
 
 Exon, tamynge: 67; f, g, h. 
 Exon, tamynge in other wise: 68; a, b. 
 Emplasturynge solempne in Juyn: 81; h, &c. 
 Emplastwrynge in Juyl: 86; a. 
 Emplasturynge in Aust: 89; d. 110 
 
 Feelde, in L. at Londe. 
 ffeeldis, to bey, discrecioun: 6; a. 
 ffleen forto destroye: 17; b, c. 
 ffloorynge for thresshyng: 18; f, g,. h, &: 8; d, e. 
 ffallynge tymber in Janyueer: 30; g. 115 
 
 ffallynge of tymber for gutters: 77; a. 
 Figtre plauntynge in Marche: 63; e, &c. 
 ffygtre, londe, and settynge in iij maners: 63; f, &c. 
 ffigtre, tocaprifie fescarifie wi</i dyuerse remedie: 64; e, &c. 
 ffigtre, to remedie that castith his fruyt: 65; a, &c. 120 
 ffigis fele and fatte, to make: 65; c. 
 
 90 Reference omitted. 119 Ms. saccjfie. B scarifle. 
 
Tabula. 5 
 
 ffigis, sone ripe, to be latly ripe, & econtra: 65; c. 
 
 Tabula; f, g, h. [fol. 3.] 
 
 ffigtre, graffynge Yndir rynde in Apnle: 65; d. 
 
 ffigtre, plechynge and inoculynge: 65: e. 
 
 ffigtre, settynge in May: 77; e. 125 
 
 ffigtre, capnfiynge and graffynge in Juyn: 8J; li. 
 
 ffigis, kepinge: 65; g, h. 
 
 ffigis of diners colouris vpon oon tree: 66; a, b. 
 
 Feyngreek, heruest for fodder in Juyn: 81: c. 
 
 fficchis,! fffeyngreek, 1 . o ^ o 130 
 
 j!f 1 f- w > in S. at Sowe. 
 
 ffasele, ) (fforage, | 
 
 ffern and seggis, to distrie in Aust: 88: h. 
 
 fferment,. musty: 105; f. 
 
 ffesauntis, to rere and to fatte: 12; h, &c. 
 
 Gouernaunce, in, the greet part of husbondrio: 2; h. i;55 
 Graynys, in S. at Seed. 
 Grauel, preef, and grosshing grauel is best: 7: c, d. 
 Garner makyng: 9; e, f. 
 Gardyn, how hit shal stonde:' 14; f, g, h. 
 Gardyn closure: 15; a, b, c; and also 42; b, c. 140 
 
 Gardyn remedie: 15; g, h, &c. 
 Graffe in thi cuntre gise : 15; f. 
 Graffynge in iij maners in ffeueryeer: 38; c, &c. 
 Graffis, chesyng, gretnesse, and shape: 38: g, li, 
 Graffyng of vynys in elmis: 39: b, c. 145 
 
 Graffyng pechis to growe withoute bonys: 39; c, d, e. 
 Graffyng & settyng of pertreen in feueryeer: 44; o. 
 Graffyng of silique in ffeueryeer: 49; e. 
 Graffynge of mulberytre: 49; f, g: & 50; a, b, c. 
 Graffynge pertre and citMrtre in Aust: 89; d. 150 
 
 Graffynge flgtre in F. at ffigtre 
 Graffyng cucumbe?- in C. at Cucumber 
 Graffyng citwrtre in 0. at Oitwrtre 
 Graffyng of melis in M. at Melis. [fol. 3a.J 
 
 144 Ms. sharpe. B shappo. 
 
6 Tabula. 
 
 Graffyng of rayddellers in M. at Middillers. 155 
 
 Graffyng of mastiketre in M. at Mastiketre. 
 
 Graffyng olyuys in 0. at Olyuys. 
 
 Graffyng pechia in P. at Pechis. 
 
 Graffyng pertren in P. at Peris. 
 
 Graffyng pomgarnatis in P. at Pomgarnatis. 160 
 
 Graffyng of plumtre in P. at Plumtre. 
 
 Graffyng of quyncis in Q. at Quyncis. 
 
 Graffyng of tuberes in T. at Tuberes. 
 
 Graffyng of vynys in V. at Vynys. 
 
 Grape vngreyned, in diuers maner: 52; a, &c. 165 
 
 Grapis, white & blake in oon vyne: 53; a. 
 
 Grapis, whiche for the bord, whiche for the wyn: 33; [c] 
 
 Grapis, keepinge; good crafte: 95; g. 
 
 Grapis bireyned, to remedie: 98; a. 
 
 Grapis, to kepe in the vyne til veer: 112; f. 170 
 
 Greek reisouns: 105; g, h. 
 
 Garlec, 1 /Gooldis, 1 ■ c^ . c^ 
 
 Goordis,/ iGith, ) ^^ S- -"^ S^^^'^g^- 
 
 Gresse, to distrie in iij maners: 87; b. 
 
 Gees, to rere and fatte: 13; d, e. 175 
 
 Goot buckis, to chese and gouerno: 113; f, g, h. 
 
 Gynnys, makyng for foulyng: 94; f. 
 
 Gynnys and foulyng in December: 118; d. 
 
 Husbondrie stent in iiij thingis : 1 ; c. 
 Haliday hath nbo necessite: 4; b. 180 
 
 Housynge in B. at Bildinge. 
 Hempe, holihocke in S. at Sowynge. 
 Hors, stondynge: 10; a, b. 
 Hors, stalons putte to maris in Marche: 68; c, d. 
 
 Tabula; h, i, k, 1, m. [fol. 4.] 
 Hors shuld ha fournie, colour, meryte & pulcntude: 68; d. 185 
 Hors, stalons age, and maris: 69: d. 
 Stalons of assis, with her age: 70; b, c. 
 
 167 Beference-letter omitted. 
 
Tabula. 7 
 
 Hennys, to rere and make hem ofte hacche: 11; c, d. 
 
 Hennys, to hele of the pippe and of the cornys: 11; e. 
 
 Hony counfit: 82; h, &c. Hony onfake counfit: 91; h. 190 
 
 Heruest in Juyn: 80; f, g. Heruest in Juyl: 85; c. 
 
 Heruest of panyke in September: 94; f. 
 
 Houris in Janyueer: 30; h. In ffeueryeer: 53; b. 
 
 In Marcher 71; d. In Aprile: 75; f. In May: 80; a. 
 
 In Juyn: 85; a. In Juyl: 88; a. In Aust; 92: a. 195 
 
 In Septembre: 96; a. In October: 106; a. In 
 
 Nouember: 117; a; and houris in December; 118; e. 
 
 Xuglandis, tilynge: 50; f. 
 
 J\_arene, defruyt, and sape counfit: 105; a. 
 
 Londis electioun: 2: a, e, f, g. 200 
 
 Lond, feebil, and fertil lond: 2; b, c, d. 
 Lond is not to be balked: 4; c, & 28; c. 
 Lond, profounde for grete olyuys: 4; d. 
 Lond for whete and barly: 5; d, e. 
 
 Lond is to take on honde as me may tile: 4; g. 205 
 
 Lond ouergrowe is holpen with gouernaunce: 4; h. 
 Lond that is salt to be remedied: 5; f, g. 
 Lond, chesynge in cold contre: 6; c. 
 Lond, fenny nys not to plowe: 23; d. 
 
 Lond for vynys: 25; b. ffor mulberitre: 48: h. 210 
 
 Lond for melis: 47; a, b. ffor quincis: 48; c, d. 
 Lond, plowynge in Janyueer: [23; b, c, d.] In ffeueryeer: 
 [32; b, d.] In Marche: [54; g.] In Aprile: [72; g.J 
 Lond, plowynge in May: 76; e. In Juyn: 81; c. [fol. 4a.] 
 In Juyl: 85; c, d. In Aust: 88; [d.] In September: 92; d. 215 
 
 190 After this line in B: HoDy and wexe of dyvers herbes 19; e. 
 201 After this in B: Lande bareyn is to be fledde fro: 3; h. 206 
 After this in B: Lande for whete and barly: 5; d, c. 210 After this 
 in B: Lande ofte ereed or plowed: 30: d, e. 212 , 213 Befe- 
 
 rences in brackets omitted. 215 Reference-letter omitted. 
 
8 Tabula. 
 
 Lond, dongynge in September: 92; f, g. 
 
 Lond, to remedie for ille humour: 93; a, b. 
 
 Lond, to remedie for ille beestis: 93; b, c. 
 
 Lond, weet, wodi, wedi, or stony, to remedie: 76; e. 
 
 Lyme, the makyng therof: 7; f. 2'20 
 
 Lilies, to sette or sowe: 41; e, f. 
 
 Letuce, sowynge, and to make white letuce : 26 ; b, c, d. 
 
 Letuce -with other. herbis in a voride: 26; e, f, g. 
 
 Letuce, Lynseed in S. at Sowynge. 
 
 Leek, sowynge & to ha tendir & greet leek: 43; g, h. 225 
 
 Leek plauntis, how to kitte & sette: 44; a, b. 
 
 Lupyne, repynge, kepynge, & sowynge: 81; e. 
 
 Lambis to rere: 112; h, &c. 
 
 Liquamen castimonial: 46; g, h. 
 
 Larde, bacons and echyne fish, to salte : 11 8 ; c. 230 
 
 Moold is to be moued aboute a roote: 4; h. 
 Muyis in B. at Bildyng. 
 Middyng or donghil: 14; d. 
 
 Markyng of beestis, & makynge condymentes: 30; b. 
 Medis in lene & drie lond: 23; b. Medis in cold 235 
 
 lond, to dense: 54; g. Medis in tempur lond: 32; a. 
 Medis, newe to make: 93; h, and 14; a, b, c. 
 Melis, to graffe in ffeueryeer: 46; h. 
 Melis, Jond to growe in, and more graffyng: 4[1]; h, &c. 
 Melis, to remedie: 47; d, e. 240 
 
 Melis may be graffyd in diuers treen: 47; f. 
 Melis fruyt, kepyng: 47; f, g, h. 
 Melis, maad aisel and wyn of: 48; b. 
 Mixe sowynge and settynge in Marche: 50; e. 
 
 Tabula; m, n, o, p. [fol. 5.] 
 Melons, to sette in Marche, and make hem swete 245 
 
 as mylke, and smellyng as rosis: 57; b. 
 
 217 Ms. homour. 239 Ms. 4. 241 After this line in 
 
 B: Moldewarpps to sle; 56; g, h, & 17: 8, e. 
 
Tabula. 9 
 
 Middillers, to sette in Marclie: 62; g, li. 
 
 Middillers, to remedie for auntis.& castynge fruyt: 63; b. 
 
 Middillers, to graffre and to kepe: 63; b, c, d. 
 
 Molberytre, tilynge in ffeueryeer: 49; f, g, h. 250 
 
 Molberitre, plauntynge, remedie for hem, and 
 
 graffyng of the same: 50; a. b, c. 
 
 Mastike tre to graffe, and plaunte in Marche: 50: e. 
 
 Male appeltreen, in October to sette: 101; a. 
 
 Male applis, to counfit in October: 101; a. 255 
 
 f/1,'^^'1 ISf''l in S. at Sowynge. 
 Medica,) 'Milde, J "^ ^ 
 
 Maris, to chese and gouerne: 68; h, &c. 
 
 Mulis, to haue in dyuers wise: 69; h, &c. 
 
 Nuttren, to sette in Janyueer: 28; h, &c. 260 
 
 Nuttren, to remedie, & nuttis Tarentyne: 29; f. 
 Nuttis, to kepe: 29; g, h. 
 Neepis & rapis in Juyl, to sowe & make grete: 85; e. 
 
 Oliue is to be plauntid of children: 5; a. 
 Oliuis grete, stond in deep lond: 4; d. 265 
 
 Oliuis, to sette in ffeueryeer, and lond for hem: 39; f, g, h. 
 Oliue bayis of dyuers names, & her stonding: 40; d. 
 Oliuis, to rere withonten oliue plauntis: 4[0]; e. 
 Olyuys, sikkil, to hele in Marche: 55; h. 
 Olyuys, bareyn, to make here: 56; a, b. 270 
 
 Olyuys, graffyng, that fir distroye hem not: 72; d. 
 Olyuys, to ordeyne, sette & donge in October: 97; e, f, g. 
 Olyuys, bareyn, to brynge into bering cwn coitu suo : 97;li. 
 Olyuys, putacioun, and oil makynge: 107; c, d. 
 Olyuys, to sette and cure in Nouember: 507; e. [fol.oa.] 275 
 Oil mirtite maad in Janyueer: 30; c. 
 Oile lauryne maad in Janyueer: 30; e. 
 Oile lentiscyne maad in Janyueer: 30; f. 
 Oile liliate, counfit in May: 79; f. 
 
 247 After this line in B: Meddelers to remedie for wornies 
 and make fertile; 63: a. 26S Ms. 4. 
 
10 Tabula. 
 
 Oile de rose counfit in May: 79; g. 280 
 
 Oile verde counfit in October: 98; b. 
 
 Oile lauryno maad in October: 98; c. 
 
 Oile makyng in Nouember: 114; g, h. 
 
 Oile liburnyke in Nouember: 115; a. 
 
 Oile, filthy, to pure in Noember: 115; b. 285 
 
 Oile, ille smellynge, tamende: 115; b, c. 
 
 Oile, brousty smellynge, tamende: 115; [g]. 
 
 Olyuys to counfit in diners wise: 115; h, &c. 
 
 Oildreggis and vrine for olyues: 32; f, g. 
 
 Origon, Oynouns in S. at Sowe. 290 
 
 Oxen in E. at Bxen. 
 
 Pocok, to rere: 11; h & 12; til h. 
 Poondis for watir foullis: 14; b. 
 Pastynynge in diuers wise in Janyaeer: 24; c, &c. 
 Puis, sowynge in Janyueer: 32; b, c. 295 
 
 Plowyngc of lond in L. at Londe. 
 Pechis, to growe withoute bonys: 39; c, d, e. 
 Pechis, emplasturyng in May: 77; e. 
 Pechis, inoculacioun in Juyn: 81; h. 
 
 Pechis, settynge in Nouember; 107; h, &c. 300 
 
 Pechis, ablaqueacioun, putacioun, & sanaciouw : 108; c. 
 Pechis, to growe writen vrith lettris: 108; d. 
 Pechis of iij kyndis, and diuers remedie: 108; e. 
 Pechis, to make grete and swete: 108; h. 
 Pechis, graffynge, wi^A myche craftc for hem: 109; a. 305 
 
 Tabula; p, q, r. [fol. 6.] 
 Peris, settynge and graffynge in ffeueryoer: 44; e. 
 Peris, tendir, swete, saury, and longe lastinge: 45; a. 
 Pertren, sikkil, to hele in diuers wise: 45; c, d. 
 Pertren, that they blossom not to longe: 45; e. 
 Peris, stony, to remedye: 45; e, f, g. 310 
 
 Peris may be graffed in diuers treen: 45; f. 
 Peris to graffe bi good craft: 45; g. 
 
 288 Beference-letter omitted. 
 
Tabula. 11 
 
 Peris, to be saury to mete: 45; h. 
 
 Peris, to kepe, dyuerse crafte: 46; b, c, d. 
 
 Peris, to be ouertakeu in Juyn ; 81; g. 315 
 
 Perre, or wyn of peris in ffeueryeer: 46; e, f. 
 
 Peris, maad aisel of in ffeueryeer: 46; f. 
 
 Peris, maad liquamen castimouial: 46; g, h. 
 
 Pomgarnate, settynge in Marche: 59; d, &c. 
 
 Pomegarnate, to be swete: 59; g, h. 320 
 
 Pomgarnatis, from chappynge, from wormys, 
 
 and from corruptyng, to keepe: 60; a, b. 
 
 Pomgarnatis, to be fecounde & whit grayned: 60; c. 
 
 Pomgarnatis, to merueylously grete: 6[0]; d, and 
 
 also in May: 77; d, and in Juyn: 81; g. 325 
 
 Pomgarnatis, to multiplie: 60; e. 
 
 Pomgarnatis, graffynge in Marche: 60; e, f. 
 
 Pomgarnatis, kepynge: 60; f, g &c. 
 
 Pomgarnatis, maad wyn of: 61; b, c. 
 
 Pistace, to plaunte and graffe: 50; f. 330 
 
 Pistace, tilynge in October: 99; f, g. 
 
 Pynappultre, tilynge in ffeueryeer: 50; f. 
 
 Pynappultre, to so we & plaunte: 109; e, f, g. 
 
 Pynappultre, kittynge & kepynge their fruyt, 
 
 with more of plauntyng: 110; a, b. 335 
 
 Palme, deluynge aboute in Juyn: 81; h. 
 
 Palmys, to tile in Nouember: 99; c, &c. 
 
 Powdwrynge vynys in Marche: '55; c. [fol. 6a.] 
 
 Pastynynge londis in May: 77; c. 
 
 Puis and potageware heruest: 81; c, d. 310 
 
 Plumtre, to sowe, plaunte, remedie and to 
 
 graffe in- Nouember: 110; b, &c. 
 
 Pasture for sheep: 113; b, c, d. 
 
 Pastynynge the gardyn in September: 94; h. 
 
 Pasneep, l f Panyk,i . ^^ j, 345 
 
 Pelettour,^ ' Pesis, ' 
 
 324 3Is. 6 d. 346 Ms, pelectour. 
 
12 Tabula. 
 
 Pauynge solers in May: 79; f, g, h. 
 
 Pauynge solars in Juyn: 84; c. 
 
 Pauynge in September: 95; f. 
 
 Passe counfit in Nouember: 105; b, c. 350 
 
 Qvyncis, to graffe in ffeueryeer: 48; b, c. 
 Quyncis, tilynge, and reniedie for hem, 
 with graffynge, and kepynge hem: 48; e, &c. 
 
 Rosaryis, to make and repare: 41; d, e. 
 Rosis sone ripe, to haue: 41; e. 355 
 
 Rosis to kepe fresh: 79; h. 
 Rosarjis of fewe braunchis, to make: 112; e. 
 Rosate counfit in May: 79; f. 
 Rosate maad vjithouie. rosis: 104; e. 
 
 Rodomelle counfit in May: 79; g. 360 
 
 Rapis, to chaunge into neepis & econtra: 85: f. 
 Radish, to make swete, & how to sowe: 89 ;• b, c. 
 Rapis counfit in December: 118; b. 
 Reysons, Greek, to make in Nouember: 105; g, h. 
 Ranys, wylde; Rue, in S. at Sowe. 365 
 
 Repynge in Juyn: 80; f, g. Repynge of al the 
 corn wiiA an oxe: 80; g, h. Repyng in Juyl: 85: c. 
 
 Tabula; S. [fol. 7.] 
 
 Soil or grount, in L. at Lond. 
 Seed, is to considre: 5; .b. 
 Sowe in thi contrey maner: 15; f. Sowe in 370 
 
 Janyueer ficchis and feyngreck: 23; c, f, g; and 
 Sowyng of cressis: 27; h. 
 
 Sowe in ffeueryeer puis in drie lond: 32; b, c; 
 letuce, cressis, tasul, coriaundir, popy, saury, 
 senuy, oynet, oynouns, dile, and colseed: 42; 37o 
 
 c, &c; maluys, myntis, fenel, pasneep, cunula, 
 cerfoil, beetis, and leekseed: 43; e, &c. 
 
 371 Ms. ffichis. 373 In B followed hi/: Hcmppo and tares 
 
 32; d, e, f' 376 Ms. ffenel. 
 
Tabula. 13 
 
 chibols, colcase, comyn, and anyse: 44; c, d. 
 Sowe in Marche: myldc: 98; g; chichis & 
 cicera: 55; a, b, c; senuey & dile: 56; h; 380 
 
 hokke, armorace, wylde raue, leekis, bee- 
 tis, letuce, cappare, saurj', colcase, cressis, gool- 
 dis and raue: 57; a; cucumber: 57; c; sperage: 
 57; h; rue: 58; e, f, g; gourdis: 58; h, &c. 
 panyk: 54; h; blite & pelettour: 59; b, c. 385 
 
 Sowe in Aprile: medica: 72; a, b, c; brasike & 
 ache: 72: b; thre kyndis of ache: 73: a; arage: 
 73; d; basilicon and how hit chaungeth colowrs, 
 and into other herbis. Sowe cucumber, melons, 
 pelettour, cappare, leek, colcase, coriandir, 390 
 
 beetis, letuce, oynouns, myntis, gourdis and 
 gooldis: 73; e, f. 
 
 Sowe in May myldo and panyk: 76; a. Ache, 
 melons, coriander, gourdis, tasul, radish, and 
 sette rue and leek: 77; c. 395 
 
 Sowe in Juyn brasik, ache, betis, radish, & letuce : 
 81; f. Experience of seed: 84; c, d. 
 
 Sowe in Juyl: oynouns, radish, arage, nepis, & rapis: 85: e. f,g. 
 Sowe in Aust: rape, neep, and radishe: 88; h. 
 Sowe in September: whete &ador: 92; h; barly [fol. 7a.] 400 
 canteryne, lupyne, sisane, pesis, ficchis, feyn- 
 greek, forage and fasele: 93; d, e, f; popy, bra- 
 syk and origon: 94; g, h; cappare, gith, cressis, 
 dile, radish, pasneep, cerfoil, letuce, beetis, 
 coriaundir, rapis, and neepis: 95; a, b. 405 
 
 Sowe in October: whete and ador, sisane, fasele 
 and lynseed: 96; d, e, f; gooldis and senuey: 98; 
 d, e, f; dile, myntis, oynouns, pasneep, origon 
 Wylde neep, tyme, leekseed, beetis, and ba- 
 silicon: 99; a, b. 410 
 Sowe in Nouember: whete, fair benys, bar- 
 ly, lentis and lyne: 106; d, e, f, g; garlec, vlpike, 
 
 385 Ms. pelectour. 401 Ms. ffeyngreek. 411 Ms. ffair b. 
 
14 Tabula. 
 
 oynouws, tasil, cunula and armorace: 107, f, g; 
 
 almaundis and iuglandis: 111; h. 
 
 Sowe in December: whete, barly, benys and 415 
 
 lynseed: 117; d. 
 
 Sette saffroun in ffeueryeer: 41; f; cannetis: 
 
 42; a; sette and graffe peris: 44; e, f, g, h. 
 
 Sette in Marche: garlec, cunula, oynouns 
 
 and vlpike: 56; h; origon and melons: 57; 420 
 
 a, b; pomgarnat: 59; d, &c. 
 
 Sette in Aprile: ziziphus: 73; g, h. 
 
 Sette in May, ziziphe and figtre: 77; e. 
 
 Sette in September, and graffe tuberes: 95; c, d, e. 
 
 Sette in -Nouember wylde pertre, citurtre, 425 
 
 pomgarnate, serue, quynce, myddiller, si- 
 
 lique, molberitre, chiritre and figtre: 111; h. 
 
 Sette grete treen: 114; f. 
 
 Seruys sette in Janyueer: 27; a. Seruys, 
 
 bareyn, to make bere & to kepe hem: 27; d, e, f. 430 
 
 Scions of vynys, to sette in ffeueryeer: 33; f, g, h. 
 
 Tabula; s, t, v. [fol. 8.] 
 Scions their length & space bitwene hem: 33; f, g, h. 
 Semynary, what hit is: 35; a. 
 Semynary, deluynge in May: 77; b. 
 
 Sperage, sponge, and to haue good sperage: 43; c, d. 435 
 Sponge of sperage, to make in Marche: 43; c, d. 
 Siliqua, to plaunte and sowe in ffeueryeer: 49; d. 
 Sisane, aboue in Sowe. 
 Sape counflt in Nouember: 105; a. 
 
 Swyn, sowis to chese longe sided: 50; b. 440 
 
 Sowis, how longe gooth ^ith pigge: 51; b. 
 Swyn, what soil is best fore: 51; c, d. 
 Stalons, in H. at Hors. Stalouw assis, in H. there. 
 Sheepsherynge in May, witt good enoyntyng: 78; c, d. 
 Sheepsherynge in Juyn: 82; d. Sheep, febil to 445 
 
 putte awey in Juyl: 87; b, c. Sheep, rammys 
 
 432 Ms. lengh. B lengthe. 436 The reference should be 44; a, b, c. 
 
Tabula. 15 
 
 to chese, and ewis for hem, and for to make 
 
 hem here mails or femalis: 86; e, &c. 
 
 Sheep or lambis, rerynge: 112; h, &c. 
 
 Sheep, to pasture in Nouember: 113; b, c, d, e. 450 
 
 Taris, to sowe in Janyueer: 23; h. 
 Taris, to sowe in ffeueryeer: 32; f. 
 Tasil, tilynge in Marche: 56; c, &c. 
 Tasil, plauntynge in October: 98; e. 
 
 Tuberes, to sowe and graffe in ffeueryeer: 50; e. 455 
 
 Tuberes, settynge in Septembre; graffynge' 
 and kepynge their fruyt: 95; c, d, e. 
 
 Water, to preue: 1; f, g, h. 
 Watir, to fynde for makynge of wyn- 
 chis or of wellis: 89; e, &c. 460 
 
 Watir is diuers in diuers groundis: 89; f, g, h. 
 "Watir, to knowe by diuers signys: 89; h, &c. [fol. 8a.] 
 Watir wynchis, makynge -with gopA craft: 90; e, f, g. 
 Watir, preuynge bi dyuers assayis: 91; a, b. 
 Watir conditis maad in dyuers wise: 91; c, d. 465 
 
 Vynys, where forto sette & how to kitte: 3; a, &c. 
 Dyuers vynys, dyuers wynys: 4,; a. 
 Vyne brauncliis, to enoynte: 4; d. 
 Vynys, how high they shal be: 4; e. 
 
 Vynys, pastynynge & tablis for hem: 24; c, &c. 470 
 
 Vynys, soil and aier: 25; b, &c. 
 Vynys, whenne, where, and w^hat maner vynys 
 beth best forto sette: 32; h, &c. 
 Vyne Amynee, and vyne Apyane : 33 ; c, &c. 
 Vyne scioujis, to sette: 33; f, g. Vyne scions, 475 
 
 how many may stonde in an akir lond: 34; c, d. 
 Vynes, to make a groue of: 35; a, &c. 
 Vynys, prouyntlal: 36; a. 
 
 477 After , this line in B: Subtil crafte for vynes in ffeuerer: 39. 
 per iotum. 
 
16 Tabula. 
 
 Kyttyng of comyn vyne in cold contre: 36; b. 
 Kyttynge bush vynys with myche craft: 37; a, &c. 480 
 Vyne prouyntial, kittynge : 37 ; e. 
 Vynys, plechinge, prouynynge or propagaciouw: 37; h. 
 Vynys, deluynge, stakinge & byndynge: 41; b, c. 
 Vyne, lacrymose, to helpe: 52; e. 
 
 Vyne, to here grapis vngreyned: 52; a, b, c, d. 485 
 
 Vyne, to bere grapes white and blake: 53; a. 
 Vynys, graffynge in Marche: 54; a. 
 Vynys, to be poudred in Marche: 55; c. 
 Vynys, stakynge and byndynge: 55; c, d. 
 Vynys, olde, to repare: 55; e, f. 490 
 
 Vynys, hurt or sike, forto hele: 55; g. 
 Vynys tendir, to tile in May: 76; c. 
 Vynys pampynacioun in May: 76; d. 
 Vynys ablaqueate, to couert in May: 77; a. [fol. 9.J 
 Vynys, couerynge in Juyn: 81; d. 495 
 
 Vyne couerynge and vindage apparayle: 88; d. 
 Vyne yeerdis, lene, to helpe in Aust: 88; f. 
 Vyndage, solempne in September: 95; d, e. 
 Vynys whos grapis rotith, to remedie: 96; h. 
 Vynys that beth fertile, marke hem in Sep- 500 
 
 tenipbe?- for scions to sette in settyng seson : 95 ; g. 
 Vynys, to traile in Septempber in hoot lojid: 96; h. 
 Vynys, graffynge in September: 97; d. 
 Vynys, ablaqueacion in September: 97; b, c. 
 Vynys, ouerlonge, to. repare in Nouember: 107; a, b. 505 
 Vynys, putacioun in Nouember: 107; c. 
 Vynys, pampynose and not fructuose, to reme- 
 die in Nouember: 112; c. 
 
 Vynys, bareyn, to remedie in Nouember: 112; d. 
 Vryne, to putte aboute vyne rootis: 32; f, g. 510 
 
 Wyn mirtite counfit in ffeueryeer: 51; e. 
 Wyn mirtite counfit in Janyueer: 30; d. 
 
 501 The reference should be 96 ; g. in October, not September. 
 502 Ms. trale. B traile. 
 
Tabula. 17 
 
 Wyn tiriake, right helful to make: 51; f, g. 
 
 Wyn mirtyte maad in other wise: 52; f, g. 
 
 Wyn absinthiate, rosate, & violate: 5'2; h. 515 
 
 Wyn of ponlgarnat, counfit in Marche: 61; a, b. 
 
 Wjm rosate, counfit in May: 79; f. 
 
 Wyn of grapis bireyned, to remedie: 98; a. 
 
 Wynys, dyuersite & makyng of hem: 101; c, &c. 
 
 "Wynys of dyuerse colouris beth of dyuerse qwalite 520 
 
 and of dyuerse sauouris: 101; c, d. 
 
 "Wyn, makynge of muste by decoccioun in oon 
 
 maner and in another maner by see watir fy- 
 
 nyd and tried: 101; e, f, g. 
 
 Wyn, to make longe endurynge: 101; g. 525 
 
 Wyn or must that is birayned, to helpe: 101; h. [fol. 9a.] 
 
 Wynys, sowre to make swete: 102; a. 
 
 Wynys, wel smellynge to make: 102; b. 
 
 Wynys, swete drynkynge to make: 102; c. 
 
 Wynys, newe to make seme olde: 102; d, e. 530 
 
 Wynys, to remedie for enfeccioun: 102; e, f. 
 
 Wynys, blake to make white & econtra: 102; h, &c. 
 
 Wynys, smale to make grete: 103; b, c. 
 
 Wynys, austere to make cleer and gentil drinke: 103; d. 
 
 Wynys, troubul or feculent, to clere anoon: 103; e. 535 
 
 Wynys in fyn confeccioun: 104; c. 
 
 Wyn pestilence: 104; c. 
 
 Wyn in other confeccioun: 104; d. 
 
 Wyn ynomelle: 104; f, g, h. 
 
 Wyn of peris: 46; e, f. 540 
 
 Vyolet settynge in ffeueryeer: 41; f. 
 
 Wortis, hoor as frost, and tendir; wth tyme of the 
 
 Wortis settynge in ffeueryeer: 43; a, b, c, d. 
 
 Y 
 
 pomelides, settynge in December, and fruyt 
 keepynge of the same: 117; g, &c. 545 
 
 515 Ms. rosale, B rosate. 530 After this line in B: Wynes of 
 oon yere to seme passyng olde 102; f. g. 
 
18 Tabula. 
 
 Ziziphus, settynge & tilyngc: 73; g, li. 
 Ziziphus, to glade if hit be soroiiful, and 
 Ziziphus fruytis forto keepe: 74; a, b. 
 
 Explicit tabula. Deo graiias. 
 
prohemium; 
 
 [fol. 10.] 
 AGEICULTURE AS JN NATURE AND ART 
 Tendure, of creature al Creatour, 
 List to prouide; and due H[iin]frid]e his part 
 Diuide of either side, a[dd]ynge honour 
 So high that we of princis se tlie flour 5 
 
 Hyni be. So sende he me sense and science 
 Of my balade away to rade errour, 
 Pallade and do, to glade his excellence. 
 
 His excellence, Trine and Oon, cterne 
 
 Almyghty Lord, alsapyent al good, 10 
 
 Thy Prouidence, as sterismon and sterne 
 
 Emforth this word now refluent, now flood. 
 
 Now in concord, now violent and wood. 
 
 By lif present, so hst extende in grace, 
 
 That of his woord, his werk, entent or mood 1 5 
 
 Noon inuident may reprehende an ace. 
 
 An ace apoynt, y vndirstonde, is werk [fol. 10 a.] 
 Disioynt, mys take, on honde of his support. 
 
 1 See notes. 3, 4 fl|umfride]e (H and e still legible) 
 
 and two letters not reaching helow line in afddjynge covered by 
 blot. 6 sense and science] over erasure. 8 glade] gl and 
 
 part of a covered by blot, though still legible. 
 
 * The pi'oem and epilogues are written in hand A, in colored 
 inks, the arrangement of which is described in the notes. 
 
 2* 
 
20 Prohemium. 
 
 Wroght euer kynge, or prince, or knyght, or clerk, 
 
 A thynge other then right, by his confort? 20 
 
 Though opon fame ha maad thus pleyn report, 
 
 Yit lame is she tatteyn unto the dede. 
 
 Of myghtiest, to hym is glad resort; 
 
 Of meest and leest, is had his loue and drede. 
 
 His loue and drede in brestis sprede; his wit 25 
 
 And grace in sondri place is so fecounde, 
 
 That sapience in his prudence is knyt. 
 
 As seyn in trewthis pleyn — (that list abounde 
 
 In myn entent, the sapient secound 
 
 Is fonde) inte euery londe whos fame is born, 30 
 
 And worthy straunge her londis chaunge, & founde 
 
 Expresse of his prowesse at eye aforn. 
 
 At eye aforn, is hym right here in sight 
 
 To here; and noon was lorn of their labour 
 
 Whos vwtu seyn and doon, disport aright. 35 
 
 Resort han summe ayeyn, y^ith gret honour 
 
 And yiftis grete; and summe vnder this flour 
 
 Are heer, and thyngis trete of high emprise 
 
 ffor lif present, for lif future, vche hour. 
 
 His cure and iust entent who kan comprise? 40 
 
 Prohemium [fol. 11.] 
 Who kan comprise in werkis wise, in right. 
 In sadde avise as forto wise a londe? 
 The due periure, who made assure in flight? 
 Calise endure who made, and sure in honde? 
 The kyngis right, who made vp right to stonde? 45 
 Who hath insight to stynte vnright, aduerse? 
 "Who hath be prest the chirche in rest to londe? — 
 As trewthe is best let feithfullest reherce. 
 
 Let feithfullest reherce, y treste hym beste. 
 
 Yf heretike ought kouthe pike him fro, 50 
 
 19 Wrought] added above in same hand and ink. 49 Ms. 
 reheuce. 
 
Prohemium. 21 
 
 Yf Sharp or Wawe haddo of the lawe a feste, 
 
 Tf right was fond in al this londe [undo], 
 
 Hit to gouerne he doon the sterne vnto. 
 
 Of euerj poynt, a "kyng ennoynt of bothe 
 
 Englond and ffraunce hath conysaunce also. 55 
 
 Nis ther noo lord that nil record hem sothe. 
 
 Record hem sothe; hit self the dede apperith, 
 Wul he for bothe, alyue and dede, esploye 
 To saue vs here and hem in ffraunce; hit cherith 
 His wit to here and Orliaunce ennoye. 60 
 
 Wei myght a kynge of suche a flour enioye, 
 To seen hit sprynge in fyn odour & buys, 
 Strenght & sauour, hym oueral to ioy, 
 In whos fauour science and al vertu is. 
 
 Uertu is fonde if goldon sapience [fol. 11a.] 65 
 
 Haue intellect, and consel fortitude; 
 
 If pite stonde enaured with science 
 
 That hem connect; the Lordis drede enclude. 
 
 Man thus confect is voide of dedis rude. 
 
 This kyngis dere vncul, & sone, and brother, 70 
 
 Hath God prouect, His werkis to conclude. 
 
 His werkis here — or where is suche another? 
 
 Another felyng so — the philosopbre 
 
 In bokis natural, as is phisic, 
 
 Metaphisic; also thus prompt to profre 75 
 
 Vche art quadriuial; and hath practic. 
 
 With theoric, moral, as is ethic, 
 
 Politic, monastic yconomye, 
 
 In gramer, ground of al, growyng logic 
 
 ffor fruyt and rethoric to florifie? 80 
 
 To florifie in artificial 
 
 Science and al thorgh se philosophie, 
 
 Beth thyngis hie. And yiftis natural 
 
 52 Ms. unto — a cross stands opposite this line in the margin. 
 
22 Prohemium. 
 
 Hit is not smal to haue, as memorie — 
 
 What thynge engyne vpfynde, or reson trio 85 
 
 And iustifie. In tresor to reclyne, 
 
 Is not indigne, if good phisiononiye 
 
 Vclic organ eye, and al figure & lyne. 
 
 Proheniiiim [fol. 12.] 
 At Oxenford tiiys lord liis bookis fele 
 Hath euery clerk at werk. They of hem goto 90 
 
 Metaphisic; phisic these other feele; 
 They natural, moral they rather trete. 
 Theologie here bye is with to mete; 
 Hem liketh loke in boke historial. 
 In deskis xij hymselue, as half a stretc, 95 
 
 Hath boked thair librair vniuersal. 
 
 For clergie, or knyghthod, or husbondrie, 
 
 That oratour, poete, or philosophre 
 
 hath tretid, told, or taught, in memorie 
 
 Vche lef and lyne hath he, as shette in cofre; 100 
 
 Oon nouelte vnnethe is hym to profre. 
 
 Yit Whethamstede, and also Pers de Mounte, 
 
 Titus, and Anthony, and y laste ofre 
 
 And leest. Our newe is old in hym tacounte 
 
 But that his vertu list vs exercise, 105 
 
 And moo as fele as kan in vertu do. 
 
 He, sapient, is diligent to wise 
 
 Alle ignoraunt, and y am oon of tho. 
 
 He taught me raetwr make, and y soso 
 
 Hym counturfete, and hope, aftir my sorow, 110 
 
 In God and hym to glade; and aftir woo, 
 
 To ioy, and aftir nyght, to sey good morow. 
 
 And hym that held, as doubil mortal foo [fol. 12 a.] 
 Ten yeer, myself and myne in wrong oppresse, 
 
 89 fele] glossed plures s. CXXZ. 91 Feele] glossed, 
 
 sentiunt. 
 
Prohemium. 23 
 
 And yit my chirclie and al my good me fro 1 15 
 
 Hath in effect, yit treste y God redresse. 
 
 But this niatere as here is not texpresse; 
 
 As y seid erst, in hope y thynke abide, 
 
 And to that princis werli, my wit compresse; 
 
 My wronge, my woo, my care y sette aside. 120 
 
 And Hym, that Lord that ^ith his woundis wide 
 ffrom deth vs bought, and hath our lif in cure — 
 Thorgh al this werk so derk he be my gide; 
 My wight he right, my number and mesure, 
 That first for hym, and thenne his creature, 125 
 
 His princis flour, good fruyt & fresh plesaunce 
 Vpgrowe on hit, in his Agriculture 
 Maad at his best and his Consideraunce. 
 
 Explicit Prohemium' 
 
 pro emulis. 
 
I. 
 
 Aier, Watir, Loud, and Gouernaimce. 
 
 Aier and watir. 1. [fol. 13.]* 
 JDe preceptis rei rustice. copitulum prmum. 
 
 Consideraunce is taken at prwdence 
 
 What man me must enfowrme; and husbondrie 
 
 No rethorik do teche, or eloquence, 
 
 As sujnme ban doon, hemself to magnifie. 
 
 What cam therof? That wise men folie 5 
 
 Her wordis held. Yet other thus to blame 
 
 We stinte, in caas men do by vs the same. 
 
 Tilynge is vs^ to write of euerj'^ londe, 
 
 With Goddis grace, eek pasture and housynge 
 
 for husbondrie; how watir may be fonde; 89. e. 10 
 
 What is to rere or doon in euery thinge 
 
 Plesaunce and fruyt the tilman forto bringe 
 
 As seeson wol; his appultreen, what hour 
 
 Best is to sette, is part of oure labour. 
 
 1. The illuminated initial which extends the width of the stanza 
 encircles the arms of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. 4 -Mis. 
 
 summen, B sum. 14 Mn. graffe, B sette {Lat. ponenda). 
 
 1 interest nosira. 
 * In hand B. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. 25 
 
 De iiij reins in gin'6us agricultura consistit. Capitulam secuudxim. 
 
 In thingis iiij, al husbondrie mot stonde: 15 
 
 In watir, aier, in londe, and gouernaunce. ^ 
 And iij the first, as watir, aier, and londe, 
 Beth natural; the flrthe* is of plesaunce 
 And crafte of man. But this consideraunce 
 Is first to haue, how thing is of nature^ 20 
 
 In placis ther thou wolt ha the culture. 
 
 And first biholde aboute, and se thyn aier; 
 
 If hit be deer and hool, stond out of fere. 
 
 Thy watir eek bihold if hit be feier, 
 
 Holsum & light, and outher springynge there, 25 
 
 Or ellis thidir brought from ellis where*. 
 
 Or that hit come of rayn. Eic se thy londe 
 
 Be fertile, and commodiously stonde. 
 
 De aieris pxohacione. Capitulum tercium. [fol. 13a.] 
 
 Good aier is there as dalis depe ar noone, 
 And mystis derk no dayis makith nyght; 30 
 
 The contrey men colourid wel vchoone. 
 Their wittis cleer and vnoffensid sight. 
 Her voicis feire, her herynge pure and light — 
 Al this is preef of holsum aier and clene, 
 And ther as is contrair is aier vnclene. 35 
 
 De aqua probanda. Capitulum quartum. 
 ryihe watir out of gaseyn* or of myre" 
 J- Be not ybrought, ner out of metal synke. 
 That hit be fresh coloured first desire, 
 Not moddy, but plesaunt and good to drynke; 
 And smylle also therto in caas hit stynke. 40 
 
 If hit be cole in hete an luke' in colde. 
 The bettir may me with that watir holde. 
 
 21 Ms. a man wol ha c, B thowo wilt haue the c. 
 
 1 industria. 2 g. gouernaunce. 3 g. aer, aqita, terra. 
 * ab aliunde. B lacuna. 8 palude. '? tepida. 
 
26 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Tet al though these in watris feire appere, 
 
 An hid defaut is sumtyme in nature 
 
 Vndir couert, and therof thus enquere, 45 
 
 If contrey men in likyng hele endure — 
 
 Her hedis goode, her chekis also pure, 
 
 And lite or no complaynt inwith the brest, 
 
 The longis^ hool and wynded with the best. 
 
 The longis woo comth ofte of yvel eire; 50 
 
 The stomak als, of aier is ouertake. 
 
 Take heede ek if the dwellers in that leir 
 
 Her wombis, sidis, reynys, swelle or ake, 
 
 If langour in their bladdris^ ought awake. 
 
 And yf thou se the puple sounde and fair, 55 
 
 No doute is in thi watir ner thyn aier. 
 
 Londe. 2. [fol. 14.] 
 Be terre eleccione. Capitulum quintum. 
 
 Fecundite se thus inwith thi londe: 
 Se not the swerd^ al nakid, white, vnclene; 
 Al chalk*, or grauel* grosshyng in thyn honde, 
 Withouten moold admyxt, ner sondy" lene, 60 
 
 Nor hungry cley', ner stonys ful vche reno; 
 To ronke & weet, yolgh, bittir, salt, ragston*; 
 Valeyis hard and deep eek be ther noon. 
 
 A roten swerd* and welnygh blak, hit selue 
 Suffisyng wel with gras^° to ouerwrie, 65 
 
 And tough to glewe ayeyn though hit me delue; 
 The fruyt therof not scabby", roostid^^, drie; 
 With walwort^^ that good lond wol signific, 
 With risshis^*, reed^®, gras^", trefoil", pluMimys^** wylde 
 And breris^^ fatte also go hit with childe. 70 
 
 50 Space left for large initial and afterward filled in ivith 
 smaller one. 62 3Is. better, B bitter. 69 Ms. trofoil, B trefoil. 
 
 1 pulmone. 2 vesicis. 3 glebam. * creta. 5 arena. 
 6 sabulo (repeated in margin.) 1 ieiuna glarea. 8 tepiiua. 9 putris 
 gleba. 10 gramine. n scaber. 12 torridus. 13 ebulo. l* iunoci's. 
 15 calamis. 16 gramine. l'? trifolia. 18 prunis. ''' rubis. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, aud Gouernauiice. 27 
 
 Coloiired, stond not on to bisily 
 
 To se thy lond, but rather fatto and swcte. 
 
 To preue hit faat, a clod avisily 
 
 Let take, and with good watir wel hit wete, 
 
 And loke yf hit be glewy, tough to trete; 75 
 
 Or make a diche, and yf the molde abounde 
 
 And wol not in ayeyn, hit is fecounde. 
 
 Tf hit be lene, hit gooth in al and more; 
 
 Yf hit be mene^ hit wol bo with the brinke. 
 
 But fortu take hit sw'ete, atast alore 80 
 
 The bittrist erthe and werst that thou canst thynke, 
 
 An erthen potte as take and y[i]f hit drynke 
 
 In watir sweete, and therupon let deme^. 
 
 ffor vynys, lond to chese, eek most me yeme^: 
 
 In coors* and in colour, solute and rare; [fol. 14a.J 85 
 
 The treen" theron light, fertil, faire, & longe 
 
 As peris wilde and plummys, busshis are; 
 
 Not crokid, lene, or seek, but hool & stronge. 
 
 Ne poole* hit not, but goodly playn elonge; 
 
 Ne picche hit not to soore into the vale, 90 
 
 Ne breke hit not al doun aboute a dale. 
 
 Tempest, yf hit be hilly, most assayle; 
 
 An euen feeld do chese, and in the mene. 
 
 That watir be the cleef awey trauayle. 
 
 Or liil or dale in mesure let demene, 95 
 
 But se thyo ayer be feir, and lond vnlene'. 
 
 An hier hil, that wynd that wold offende 
 
 Let holde of, if no wodis thee defende. 
 
 The londis fatte, or lene, or thicke, or rare, 
 
 Or drie or moyst, and not withouten vice — 100 
 
 ffor dyuers seed, yet, they right needful are. 
 
 82 Ms. yf, B yeue. 83 Ms. swete, corrected hy scribe A. 
 
 1 mediocris. 2 an terra sit dulcis. 3 attendendum est. 
 i corpore. 5 arbores. 6 stagnet yerbuw est. '^ pinguis. 
 
28 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunoe. [Book I 
 
 But take the fatte and moyst is myn auise, 
 
 Ther werk is leest and fruyt is meest of price; 
 
 And aftir hit the thikke q,nd ronke is best; 
 
 But thikke and drie, espie & graunte hit rest. 105 
 
 De industria agriculture. Capitulum sextum. 
 
 Ayer, watir, lond considred in nature, 
 Now corath the craft. The craft is gouernaunce — 
 Now euery word and sentence is of cure. 
 The lord present, his feeld may best auaunce. 
 The lond is good, the colour nought, perchaunce; 110 
 Therfore in hew^ be no greet diligence, 
 ffor Grod by His plesaunce' al wol dispense. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 3. [fol. 15. J 
 Yche graffe^ and grayne^ is good; but aftir preef. 
 Do sowe or graffe; and seedis newe eschewe 
 To sowe or graffe and triste in their boncheef. 115 
 Out of their lond eek seedis wol renewe 
 And chaunge hem silf, as writith clerkis trewe. 
 In placis weete al rather then in drie. 
 ffor vynys now, a poynt of husbondrie: — 
 
 Northward, in placis hoot; in placis colde, J 20 
 
 Southward; and temperaunt, in est and west. 
 
 Yet of tilynge is dyuers resoun holde, 
 
 But thuse* of thy prouynce, hit holde I best. 
 
 To fructifie also this is honest. 
 
 That yonge folk obey vnto their eldron 125 
 
 In gouernaunce as good and boxum childron. 
 
 To kitte* a vyne is thingis iij tiattende^: 
 The vyne, and fruyt, & place in whom they growe. 
 Of eerly kittyng, braunchis fele ascende; 
 Of lat kittyng comth grapis right ynough. 130 
 
 130 lat] erasure of e after t. 
 
 1 colore. 2 surculus. 3 semen. * vsui». 3 putare. 
 6 considerare, 
 
Book 1] Aier, Watir, Lend, and G-ouernaunce. 29 
 
 ffro febul lond, ek chaunge hem yf thou mowe, 
 
 ffor man and tre fro febil lend to good, 
 
 Who can, and wol not chaunge, I holde hym wood. 
 
 And kitte^ hem streit aftir thi good vyndage, 
 
 And, grapis fewe yhad, let kitte hem large. 135 
 
 Thyn yrons keep in hard & sharp vsage 
 
 ffor graffyng & for kittynge, y the charge, 
 
 A-nd do thy dede er flour or gemme^ enlarge; 
 
 Bek yf the plough mys do, the spade amende. 
 
 In londis drie and hoot, no vyne extende. 140 
 
 In placis hoot, in placis ouerdrie [fol. 15a.J 
 
 Hit is no boote his vyne a man to sette, 
 
 There as for hete he must hem ouerwrie^. 
 
 Yet yf that wynd Vultwrnus ouersette 
 
 A vyne in heete, or other blastis lette 145 
 
 Or brenne' a vyne, in stre or other thyng 
 
 To couert here is holden husbondyng. 
 
 The bareyn braunche, yf* ronke & grene hit be, 
 
 Eyght by let kitte liym of as mortal foo 
 
 Of al thy tre. But bareyn lond thou fle 150 
 
 As pestilence. In donged lond also 
 
 To sette* vynys yonge, as do not so. 
 
 Eek Grekis sayn that aftir yeeris thre, 
 
 Saue wortis", sowe in hem what euere hit be. 
 
 Uche herbe also, they seyn, hit is to sowe 155 
 
 In londis drie, outake of hem the beene. 
 
 The beene in londis weete is best to throwe. 
 
 And sette' not out thi londis faat or lene 
 
 To hym whos lond^ adioyneth on thy rene; 
 
 ffor harm & stryf of that vpon thy selue 160 
 
 May rise, yhe & perchaunce ouer thee whelue. 
 
 135 And] glossed h" d". 167 In left margin: No<a. 
 
 1 puta. 2 gemma. 3 operire * qwamuis. 5 igel sowe in. 
 6 caulis. ■? non locabis. 8 g. vicino. 
 
So Aier, Watir, Lond, and Goiiernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Tyle al thy feeld or al thy feeld is lorn. 
 
 Thy whete, a wondir^ chaungyng, thryis sowe 
 
 111 lond to faat wol turne into other corn, 
 
 And rie of whete ysowen wul vp growe, 165 
 
 As they that are expert in tilynge knowe. 
 
 Iliche fre fro thingis iij thou tvvynne: 
 
 Sterilite, infirmyte, and synne. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 4. [fol. 16.] 
 In bareyn londe to sette or foster vynys, 
 Destroyeth al the labour and expense. 170 
 
 In feeldis more^, in hillis nobler wyn is. 
 Aboundaunt wyn the north wynd wol dispense 
 To vynys sette vppon his influence, 
 The southern wynd enspirith bettir wyn; 
 Now niyche' or noble*, chees, the clioys is thyn. 175 
 
 Necessite nath neuere halyday — 
 
 Talc hede of that, and feeldis teniporate, 
 
 Although hit be good sowynge; yet alway 
 
 Or longe yf hit be drie in oon estate. 
 
 Let sowe hit on, and God hit fortunate. 180 
 
 And yf thy wey^ be foul, hit is dampnable 
 
 And neithir plesaunt, neither profitable. 
 
 To tile a feeld, me most ha diligence; 
 
 And balk hit not, but ere" hit vp bydenc. 
 
 A litel tiled wel wul quyte expence; 185 
 
 So take on honde as thou may wel sustene. 
 
 The vynys blake away let take; eek grene 
 
 And tendir vynys kitte, ar therby shent, 
 
 And stakis longe ar vynys increment. 
 
 Turne euery kirf aweyward from the grape 190 
 
 Lest droppyng do hit harm; ennoynteth eke 
 
 175 Ms. cloys, B choys. 176 In right margin: Note. 
 
 1 interpositio. - s. vini. 3 s. viiiuro. * s. vinuj«. 3 via. 
 6 ara. 7 incisuram. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouertiaunce. 31 
 
 The braunchis kitte, and vp they faste eschape 
 
 Al faat & sad; deep lond also thou seke, 
 
 OJyuys^ grete out of that lond wol reke^ 
 
 With drasty wattry fruyt, and latte and lite, 195 
 
 Unsuffisaunt the costis forto acquyte. 
 
 Luke^ ayer and tempur wynd, olyuys loue; [fol. 16a.J 
 
 And vynys that "vppon the hillis stonde, 
 
 By processe vp beeth brought to their aboue — 
 
 Yet not but footis iiij in febil londe, 200 
 
 And seuen foote in fatt, vp may they stonde; 
 
 Eke as the grope is grene and wol not shake, 
 
 Vpbynde hit softe, and hit is vndirtake. 
 
 Thy vyne in oon stede* alway, thou ne bynde, 
 
 And delue hir cloos, for harmynge thy vyndage.* 205 
 
 Eek deep and fertil lond hit is to fynde; 
 
 And too feet deep" is good for corn tilage, 
 
 And doubil that for treen', in depnes gage. 
 
 A novel vynevp gooth by diligence 
 
 As fast as hit gooth doun by negligence. 210 
 
 And take on bond, in husbondynge of londe, 
 
 As thou may here in maner and mesure. 
 
 War arrogaunce in taking thyng on honde, 
 
 ffor aftir pride in scorn thou mayst assure. 
 
 And elder than oon yeer, no grayn in vre* 215 
 
 Thou putte, in drede hit die. Eek hillis yeld is 
 
 Wei gretter grayn and fewer, then in feeld is. 
 
 In spryngynge of the mone is best to sowe. 
 
 In dayis warm; and treen vnproiitable, 
 
 If that thy lond mth hem be ouergrowe, 220 
 
 Diuide hit thus: that fatte & bering, able, 
 
 Let plowe hit vp, and leef the lene, vnable, 
 
 213 In left margin: Noia. 204 Ms. noman b., B thou ne b. 
 209 Ms. nobul, B novel (Xat. novella). 214 Ms. me may, B thou maist. 
 
 1 olive. 2 crescere. ^ tepidum. ^ loco. 5 vindimie. 
 6 alta. "^ arboribus. 8 experiencia. 
 
32 Aler, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Coue»-t in woode; yet wul this, ^ith trajiaile 
 And breiinynge hit, thi fat lond countwruayle. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 5. [fol. 17.] 
 But when hit is so brent, by yeris fyue 225 
 
 As nygh hit not, and aftir shaltow se 
 That hit as fatter lond wol crece and thryue. 
 Tholyue, as Grekis seyn, shal plaunted be 
 Of children clennesse in virgynyte, 
 Perchaunce in remembraunce how olyue tre 230 
 
 Is premynent to virgyne chastite. 
 
 The greynys namys is no ned to telle, 
 
 Ner, aftir tynie and placis, how they chaunge; 
 
 Suffise hit thee, ther as thou kestist dwelle. 
 
 To se the contrey seed, and sepd estraunge. 235 
 
 Preue eek thonpreued greyne afore eschaunge. 
 
 Lupyne and ficchis'- slayn, and on their roote 
 
 Vpdried, are as dongyng, londis boote. 
 
 And let hem drie vnslayn, and vp they drinke 
 
 The londis iuce^- In place eek hoot and drie, 240 
 
 In champayn eek, and nygh the seis brinke 
 
 By tyme vpon thy werk in vynys hie; 
 
 And placis cold & raoyst, or shade and hie 
 
 Hathou noon hast. And this to kepe ia houris. 
 
 As wel as month, or dayes, thyn honour is. 245 
 
 And tilyng, whenne hit tyme is hit to do. 
 
 Is not to rathe yf dayis thryis fyue. 
 
 Hit be preuent; and not to late also. 
 
 As for as longe. Bek cornys best wole thryue 
 
 In opon lond, solute, acclyued blyue 250 
 
 Vpon the sunne; and lond is best for whete 
 
 If hit be marly,* thicke, and sumdel weete. 
 
 226 Ms. And, B As glossed dimitte iacere. 234 After 
 
 hit erasure of 2 letters — to ? 
 
 1 eruujn. 2 suucum. 3 crotosa {sic). 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Goueruaunce, 33 
 
 And barly lond is good solute and drie — [fol. 17a.] 
 
 That maner molde, hath barly in delite; 
 
 In cley lond if me sowe hit, hit wole die. 255 
 
 Trymenstre seedis^ eek is to respite 
 
 To placis colde, of wyntir snowis white, 
 
 Ther as the lond is weet in somer seson; 
 
 And other way to worche, is countwr^ reson. 
 
 Trymenstre* seed in heruest forto sowe 260 
 
 In londis cold is best; and yf thee nede 
 
 In londis salt that treen or graynys growe, 
 
 Thou must anoon on heruest plaunte or seede, 
 
 The malice of that lond, or cause of drede, 
 
 That wyntir with his shouris may of dryue. 2G5 
 
 Yet most hit haue an other thing to thryue, 
 
 Sum grauel or sum watir lond kest vndir. 
 
 If thou hit plante; and yf thou wolt hit sede, 
 
 A comyn moolde amonge hit part asundir, 
 
 And al the better wol thi werkis spede. 270 
 
 The stonys on thy lond is forto drede, 
 
 ffor they beth somer hoot and wyntir coldc; 
 
 That vyne, & grayne, & tre distenipur wolde. 
 
 The lond aboute a roote* is to be moued 
 
 Al vpsodoun, and flekis'* shal we make 275 
 
 Of donge and molde; and first be molde admoued 
 
 And after, dgnge. A premynent to make 
 
 Vppon thi feeld, hym nyl y undirtake 
 
 That is thy dere entere; and why? for he 
 
 Wol wene his werk be wel, how so euer hit be. 280 
 
 268 Ms. me shal, B thou wolt. 278 nyl added above 
 
 the line hy scribe A. 
 
 1 trinicntris {sic) satio. 2 contra. 3 tn'mentvis. * raJi- 
 cem. 5) crutis. 
 
 3 
 
34 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouemannoe. [Book I 
 
 De agri elecciowe vel situ. Cnipitulum vij. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 6. [fol. 18.]* 
 
 T^o chese* or bie^ a feel[d], consider this — 
 That is nature and his fecundite 
 Be not fordoon by husbondyng hit mis; 
 Vnhusbondynge vndoth fertilite. 
 
 Yet pose"' y that hit might amendid be, '285 
 
 The seurer is to treste in thingis sure; 
 The hole is saaf, the hurte is forto cure. 
 
 Yet as for seed, hit may wel ben amendid , 
 
 But vines may ha vices worthy blame: 
 
 To longe or brode, vptrailed or extendid, 29U 
 
 As diuers men han doon to fresshe her fame 
 
 And fewe or febil grapis in the same 
 
 Han growe, — a gret labour is to correcto 
 
 A moold in this maner that is enfecte. 
 
 The lond is thus to chese: in costis colde, 295 
 
 On south & est, se that hit feire'encline, 
 
 And that noon hil the Sonne owt from hit holde: 
 
 But from the cold Septemtrion decline, 
 
 And from northwest ther chilling sonnys sliine; 
 
 In costis hoot, Septemtrioun thow take 300 
 
 Ther fruit & high plesaunce & helthis wake. 
 
 And se the flood be good ther thow wilt dwclle, 
 
 For oft of hit exalith myst ympure; 
 
 And fie therfro[m] in caas hit myght the quelle. 
 
 Be mire* also to dwelle, hit is not sewre, 305 
 
 And namly sowth & west that drie & dure''' 
 
 In.'seson hoot; for causis pestilent 
 
 Engendereth ther & wormes violent. 
 
 281 Ms. feel, B felde. 296 Ms. so, B so. 301 Ms. 
 
 helth is, B helthes. 304 Ms. therfro, B ther from. 306 Ms. 
 manly, B namely. 
 
 1 eligere. 2 co»Hi)erare. 3 pono. * paludeiu. " aront et 
 iwdurant verba sujit. 
 
 • Folios 18 to 25 are written in hand C. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lend, and Gouernaunce. 35 
 
 -De edificio. Capitulum viij. [fol. 18a.] 
 
 Thyn ho us, as wol tin fortune & thi feeld, 
 Let make hit vp, in craft and in mesuro 310 
 
 Hit to repare as may thi londe foryeldc; 
 Demened so that, if mysauenture 
 ffordo thyn hous, a yeer or too recure^ 
 Hit atte mest. And sette hit sumdel hie 
 ffor gladsom & for saddir ground & drie. 315 
 
 The fundament enlarge hit half a foote- 
 
 Outwith the wough'^; but first thy grount assay. 
 
 If hit be ragge or roche, on hit thow foote* 
 
 In depth a foote or too, but uppon clay 
 
 If thow wilt bilde, another is tliaray: 320 
 
 Let delue & caste hit vp, vntil thow fyndo 
 
 Hit hard & hool, and tough hit self to byndc. 
 
 Wyth orchard, or with gardyn, or with raede" 
 
 Se that thyn hous with hem be vnibironne". 
 
 The side in longe vppon the south, let sprede, 325 
 
 The cornel rise vppon the wynter sonne; 
 
 And gire hit from the colde west, if thow co«ne. 
 
 Thus shal thyn hous be wynter warme & light. 
 
 And somer cold. And lo this craft is lyght'. 
 
 De hihernis & estiuis mauciombus pauimentis. ix cnpituliini. 
 
 Eek fourme hit so that faire hit stowde yforo, 330 
 The wintir wonyng on the sonny side 
 Ther Phebus with his bemys may hit chere. 
 And timbur strong enlace, hit forte abide. 
 Eke paue or floore hit wel in somer tyde; 
 But tymbre not thyn hous with diuerse kyndo 335 
 Of treen, as asshe, & bircho, & ook, & lyndo. 
 318 Ms. &, B on. 
 
 1 recuret. 2 pede. •'' extra paricteiH. ^ fiiiiilcs. 5 prato. 
 fi circumdara {sic). 1 I'aeilis. 
 
 3' 
 
36 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Gouernauace. 7. [fol. !&.] 
 
 This mapil, ook^, & asshe^ endureth longe 
 
 In floryng, jf me feme hit wel or chaue'' 
 
 That in the tre the morter do no wronge*. 
 
 On part of lyme and tweyne of rubel"' haue: 340 
 
 Six finger thicke a floor therof thow pane 
 
 With lyme & askys mixt ^Yith cole & sonde, 
 
 A flake aboue in thiknesse of an hond. 
 
 This flooryng wul be blak & wynter warm, 
 
 And, licor shede, anon hit wol updrie. 345 
 
 But, lest the sonne in somer do hit harm, 
 
 Thi somer hous northest & west let wrie. 
 
 With marbil or ^ith tile thy floryng wrie, — 
 
 Or thus thow maist thy wynter floryng take, 
 
 Or lyme & grauel mynge & therof make. '350 
 
 De arena & calce. Cnpitulum x. 
 
 The bilder eke to knowe is necessary. 
 What grauel and wlwt lyme is profitable. 
 Grauel lis dolue" in iij naturis" vary: 
 In red, & boor, & blak vnvariable. 
 Of hem the reed is best, the bore is able, 355 
 
 The blake is werst: yet gripe hem in thyn lionde, 
 ffor grossing grauel finest wol be fonde. 
 
 Ek preue hit thus: in clothus white hit kest, 
 And, shaken out, if that the cloth be clene 
 Withouton spot, that grauel is the best. 360 
 
 And if me may noon delue, in flood, or lene 
 Cley lond, or nigh the see, grauel let glcne'*. 
 The see grauel is lattest for to drye. 
 And lattest may thow therwith edifie, 
 
 364. For to drye over erasure. 
 
 1 quercus. 2 fraxiiwts. 3 palia sternas. ^ piitriflcando. 
 5 rudere. 6 fosse. '^ vel colouris. ^ coligwe (sic). 
 
Book I] Aior, Watir, Loiid, and Gouernaunce. 37 
 
 Tho salt in hit tlii werkis wol resolue; [fol. 19 a.] 365 
 
 And lond grauel anoon sette in worchinge 
 
 Er Sonne or wynde or sliouris^ hit dissolue. 
 
 And flood grauel is good for couerynge. 
 
 Out of the see grauel the salt to bringe, 
 
 Let drenche hit for a tyme in \yater swete. 370 
 
 Thy lym- of stonys hard is thus to gete: 
 
 Stoon tiburtine, or floody coluuabine, 
 
 Or spongi red, let brenne, or marbiil ston; 
 
 ffor bildyng, better is the harder myne; 
 
 The fistulose & softer let hit goon 375 
 
 To couer with. & tweyn'' of lynie in oon 
 
 Of grauel raynge, and chalk in flood grauel 
 
 A thredendell, wol sadde hit wonder wel. 
 
 De lateric[i]is parietibus Oapitulum xj. 
 rjlhi wallis bricke*, with bricke thou most corone 
 A A foote aboue & sumdel proniynent 380 
 
 That they be storm or rayn be not fordone, 
 And let hem drie erthen the bemys bent 
 Or roof be layd uppon, lest al be schent 
 ffor lacke of craft. Eke this is husbondrie — 
 To couert hem with sumwhat whil they drie. 385 
 
 De lumine statione & altitudine. C'apitulum xij. 
 
 Make lyght ynough aboute on euery side, 
 And loke, as the is taught, that est & west, 
 And north & south thyn houses thou deuyde; 
 In wynter, south, in veer & heruest, est. 
 Septemtrioun in somer houseth best; 390 
 
 369 see added above the line in hand A. 379 Ms. me 
 
 most, B thou must. 380 Mss. aboute. 388 Ms. deuyse, 
 
 B deuyde. 
 
 1 ymbres. '^ calcem. 3 partes. * mures {sic) latericios. 
 
38 Aier, Watir, Lond, aiid Gouernauiioe. [Book I 
 
 And half as high thvn chamber & triclino 
 Thou make, as hit is mesure long by lync. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 8. [fol. 20.] 
 Be cameris canniciis. Copitulum xiij. 
 
 Of suche a stufe as esy is to fynde 
 Is best to biklc. And bordis of ciprcsse 
 Playn & direct, vpsette hem in tlieir kyndo 395 
 
 A foote atwyn, and hem to gedir drcsse 
 Wit iunipwr, box, oliue, or cupresse, 
 So worchyng up thy wo wis by & by. 
 But sc that hit l)e tyrahred myghtyly. 
 
 Faat reed of mire, ygrounde & tempred tough, 400 
 
 Let daube hit on the wough on vche aside, 
 
 And with a trowel make it playn ynough, 
 
 That hit uppon thy tymber fast abyde; 
 
 Lyme & grauel commixt ther on do glide, 
 
 With uiarbul greet ygrounde & mixt viith iyme; 405 
 
 Polish al vp thy werk in goodly tyme. 
 
 De ox>ere alhario. Capitulum xul.'). 
 
 Eek whyting werk is thyng of gret delyte. 
 Lyme is for that in tymes long maad Icno; 
 That hit be profitable, preue astite. 
 As tymber, hewe hit y^ith an axe and sene 410 
 
 If hit be not in thegge, and sum sustene 
 In thaxe, al gluy, tough & soft, relent; 
 ffor whytyng that Iyme is conuenyent. 
 Be tectorijs. Capitulum xv. 
 
 I'The parget of thy wough be strong & bryght; 
 - The trewel first ful ofte hit most distreyne, 415 
 
 391 Mtirginal gloss tncUnium est locustriiia cessione discum 
 beraoiuwj. Rubric over 393 3In. cannioijcys. 393 Ms. off (ff is the 
 majuscule which the scribe oftenwrites immediately after the initial). 
 395. Ms. him. 401 dauhe] u added above the line and dawbo 
 
 written opposite in left margin — both corrections in hand A. Rubric 
 over 4.14:. Ms. capitilum. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernauncc. 39 
 
 And, as hit drieth, eft & eft hit dight. 
 
 Thro kyrtils do theron, of marbul greyne; 
 
 But first let on be drie, & then engre[y]ne 
 
 A smMJler cote aboue on that, & thenne 
 
 The thridde on al, as smal as liit may renne. 420 
 
 l)e vitanda valle frigidn. Capitulum xvj. [fol. 20 a.] 
 
 And war a tliyng that mony men haue vsed, 
 . To drenche her dwellyng place in dalis dope, 
 Lest water shuld hem wonte, & foule excused; 
 ffor helth is rather then the lust to kepe. 
 The langour of thy lond is to biwepe, 425 
 
 In stede of welle or wenche haue a sisterne 
 And rayn of al thy place in hit gouerne. 
 
 De cisteriiis. Capitulum xvij. 
 
 Let craft hit vp plesaunt as may suffice 
 Vnto thi self; as best is brood & longe. 
 The gootys left in, sad thy ground assise, 430 
 
 And yote on hit tyl pauyng playn & stronge. 
 This pauyng most me cure & labour longe, 
 And clere hit vp; but frote hit wel with larde 
 ffaat & decoct — thy werk wol the rewarde. 
 
 When that is drie, vp walle hit euery side 435 
 
 In lyke maner, eek larde hit, harde hit wel 
 
 Tyl water wol endwelle hit and abyde; 
 
 And feede in hit thy waterfissh & eel 
 
 To moue & clere & fressh hit euery deel, 
 
 As though hit were a riuer or a welle. 44.' 
 
 Now chenys how tamende, y am to telle. 
 
 The chenys, holys, pittis, poolis mende. 
 
 And thorgh the ston, yf that the water synke, 
 
 418 Ms. engrene, B engreyne. Bubric over 428. Ms. 
 
 xviij. 
 
40 Aier, Watir, Loud, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Take picche & talgh, as need is the to spende, 
 And boyle hem tyl they ryse vnto the brynke 445 
 And let hit cole; eek yef hit lime to drynke 
 A lyte, and lyte & smal, but mynge hit yurne 
 Tyl euery part vntyl on body turne. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 9. [fol. 21.J 
 When this siment is maad, hit most insinke 
 Vche hole & chene and euery lekyng ston; 450 
 
 And presse hit tliyke aboute on euery brinke. 
 And holsum is that pipis from hit goon 
 To bringe aboute in water,- oon by oon; 
 To drynke is this of waters iirst & best, 
 Lycour of grace aboue, a thyng celcst. 455 
 
 Be cella viiiaria. Capitiiliim Kviij. 
 
 1A\\j wyn scler in cold Septeratrion, 
 - Wei derk & fer from ostis, bath, & stable, 
 Middyng, cisterne, & thyngis euerychon 
 That euel smelle. Ek se that hit be able 
 As for thi fruit; another thyng notable — 460 
 
 Aboue hit al thi calcatori make. 
 On either half a pitte, in wyn to take. 
 
 Thre grees or iiij is up therto to go. 
 
 Canels or pipis, wynes forth to lede 
 
 Into the vat & tonnys, make also. 465 
 
 And pane hit, yf the list, in leng[t]h & brede. 
 
 A pitte in hit for wynes white or rede 
 
 That ouerrenne of ignoraunt kepynge 
 
 To make, is oon good poynt of husbondyng. 
 
 De orreo S granario. xix capituluni. 
 
 Thy bernys fer fro stynke & sumdel hie, 470 
 
 Thy stabil fer away therefro, thou sette. 
 Ek se that they be wyndy, cold, & drie. 
 
 450 Ms. clene, B chene. 466 Ms. lengh, B lenght. 
 
Book IJ Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernauuce. 41 
 
 Tliy borne also bo playn & hard tlio fletic; 
 
 And footis too to tbicke hit, thou no lettc. 
 
 ffor euery groyne a place is to deuise, 475 
 
 As large as for thy tyling wul suffice. 
 
 Thy garner and thi vessel for thy grayn, [fol. 21a.] 
 
 Make sujjzdel high, & wallo hit thus to thriuo: 
 
 Oildreggis niixt with cley me may ymplayn 
 
 The wowis with: & leuis of ohue 480 
 
 In stedo of chaf, vppon thy wowis driue; 
 
 And drie hit wol, & then oyldreggo hit ofte, 
 
 And safly may thy whete in hit be Icfte. 
 
 This maner craft wol hold out of thi whete 
 
 Gurgolions and other noyis bestis. 485 
 
 The coriaunder leuis, lest hit swete, 
 
 Is put theryn. Another craft vnlest is: 
 
 ffro floor to floor to chaungo hit ofte, his fcst is. 
 
 Conisa is an herbe as Grekis sayn 
 
 That drie is goodo to kest vnder the grayn. 490 
 
 Se olefactorio. Capitulum xx. 
 rj ^hyn oilcelar sotte on the somer side, 
 JL Hold out the cold & let cum in the sonne 
 At holys, so that in the wyntertide 
 Thyn oil, mth esi pressinge, out be wonne. 
 Oilmilles, wholis, wrongis, not bigonno 495 
 
 Of now, y nil not speke of now; but clone, 
 Thyn oiles receptaclis thow demeno. 
 
 Me uiay also doon other dihgonco 
 
 Aboute an oilcelar, hit for to warmo; 
 
 The pament vnderthirled & suspense, 500 
 
 Beeto vnder fir, so smoke hit may not harme 
 
 A doel; & bote ok wul thyn hous enarme 
 
 As from the swyrd of wynter kono & colde. 
 
 Now husbondry for stablis write y wolde. 
 
42 Aier, Watir, Loud, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Gouernaunce. 10. [fol. 22.] 
 J)e stabulis equuram S houm. Ctipitulum xxj. 
 
 Toward the sowtli tlii stabul & thi stal 505 
 
 ffor hors & neet tliou sctte, & geto in light 
 Out of the north, & winter close hit al 
 To holde out colde; in somer yef hit siglit 
 Thyn hous to cole. And nygh thi bestis dight 
 A flr in colde; hit wol thin cxon raende, 510 
 
 And make hem feire, if thfey the fir attende. 
 
 For hannynge of theire houf, eek sette hem drie; 
 And for vche yok of exon in thi plough, 
 Eighte foote in brede & goodly lenght outtrie — 
 The length, as from the horn into the sough 515 
 
 The brede is crosse. And planke hit stronge ynough 
 Vnder thin hors, that hit be lyggyng softe 
 Ynough & harde ynough to stonde olofte. 
 
 Be corte. Capitulum xxij. 
 
 Eek on the south let make an hous for bestis. 
 But ouerhoot attemporat to holde 520 
 
 (Of husbondri a poynt not this the lest is) 
 Of forkis, & of boord, & bouwes colde, 
 A stondyng most be maad and ouerfolde 
 And couered wel with shingil, tile, or broom — 
 Or segges ar as gode to my dome. 525 
 
 De auiariji. Capitulum xxiij. 
 
 Aboute, also, this hous make up thi mewis, 
 ffor donge of fowlis is ful necessary 
 To londtiling; but dong of gees eschewe is — 
 Hit is right noght, hit is an aduersary 
 To euery seed. Now euery brid hem wary, 530 
 
 And, whil the donge of hem is so to blame, 
 Let hem not sitte among thi foulis tame. 
 
 liubric ovi^r 505 Ms. bouun. 507 Mss. winterclose. 
 
 521 Ms. apoynt, B apointe. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Goueriiaunce. 43 
 
 [fol. 22 a.] 
 Ve columbario. Copitulum xxriij. 
 
 And in a tour v/ith playn and wliited wallcs 
 And fcnstellis iiij, a columbaire, 
 As is the gise, away fro ther tliyn hallo is, 535 
 
 Let sette, as dowuys may therto repairo; 
 And inwith make hem nestis raony a paire. 
 Old spartea, that beestis with beeth shood, 
 To spryng among the dowuys, is ful good. 
 The wesil shal for this doon hem noon harm, 540 
 
 So hit be doon secre that no man se. 
 Yet for the wesil vsc another charm: 
 Sum of the bond wherwii/i hath strangled be 
 Sum mon (y pray god lete hit neuer the) — 
 Hang part of that in euery fenestel, 545 
 
 And from the wesil this wol wite hem wol. 
 Yef hem comyn ynough & baume her pejmys, 
 And dowuys mo ynowe in wol they brynge. 
 And if me wul ha mony briddis thcnnys, 
 Let bene or barly bake or ficches fling 550 
 
 Aforn hem ofte. Also for her helping 
 Let hong aboute, in dinerse stedis, rewe, 
 And bestis aduersaunt hem wol eschewe. 
 
 [De ttirturibus. Capitulum ooxv.] 
 Vnder thi coluerhous, in al the brede 
 Make mewis tweyn, on lytel & obscure. 555 
 
 With whete & milk in this thi turturs fede 
 In sonier faat ynough Vfith lytel cure. 
 But boile hit in swetnesse and oon mesuro, 
 A strik, is for six score on dayes mete; 
 But water oft yfresshed thou hem gete. 560 
 
 Bubric over 533 3Is. columbaro. 534 Ms. fenstellis, B 
 
 fenstolles andr. added later between t and 1). 540 Opposite this 
 stanza in the left margin, in a handwriting comparatively recent : 
 frivolous and filthy. 554 Bubric omitted. 556 Ms. milk, B 
 
 mylde. 
 
'44 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernauuoc. [Book I 
 
 Gouernaunce. 11. [fol. 23.] 
 Be auiarijs turdomm. Capitiilum xxvj. 
 
 And thrusshis feedo vppon that other side 
 (To fatte hem is auailaunt and plesaunt) 
 But maak this hous wherin they shal abide 
 Light, clene, and playn, with perchis transuersaunt 
 To sitte vppon, & bouwis in to chaunte 565 
 
 Ychaunged oft. Eek yef hem figis grounde 
 Commixt with flour, to make hem faat & rownd. 
 The seed of mirte, if that thow maist hit gete, 
 Of crabbe, yuy, lentiske, and wilde oliue 
 Let yeue hem now & now for cbaunge of meto 570 
 With chaungid water oft. Eek fressh, asbliue 
 As they both take vnhurt, with iiij or v 
 Of thrusshis tamed, putte hem in this mewe 
 To do disport among this gestis newe. 
 
 Be galUnis incubaturis. Capituliim xxvij. 
 
 What wommon connot sette an lien obrood 575 
 And bringe her briddis forth? The craft is lite; 
 But askis, smoke, & dust is for hem gode. 
 Ek best are hennis blake, & werst ar white 
 And good ar yolgh. But if their appetite 
 With draf of win be fed, anoon bareyne 580 
 
 They beth; forthi therfrom thow hem refreync. 
 Wiltow they oftyn hacche & eyron grete 
 They legge, half boiled barly thow hem brynge; 
 Twey crusis is oon day aji [hjennis mete 
 That goth at large. & odde eyron in sprynge 585 
 Of Echates vnder thyn hen sittynge 
 Do putte; as when the mone is dales dene 
 Of age is good, and til he be xv."^ 
 
 And other while an hen wul ha the pippe, [fol. 23 a.] 
 A whit pilet that wul the tonge enrounde; 590 
 
 That softly of wol with thy naylis slippe 
 Anoon, & askis after on the wounde 
 
 576 Ms. the the. 584 Ma. ennis, B hennes. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Goucmaunce. 45 
 
 Do keste, & dense hit, lej' on garlec grounde. 
 Grounde alum ek -^ith oil put in her mouthis, 
 Is good, & other tliyng that not vnkouth is, 595 
 
 As staphisagre, minget in theire mete 
 
 Wol hele her tong. Another nialadie 
 
 Wol rise of sour lupine, 3'f they hit ete, 
 
 As cornis that wol vnder growe her eye 
 
 That, but nie lete hem out, the sight wol die. COO 
 
 Al esely me may vndo the skjm 
 
 WiifA prickyng of a nelde or of a pyn. 
 
 Taak wommans milk and luce of portulake, 
 
 And therwii/i me may hele her eyen sooro; 
 
 Or hony, mixt mth salt arraoniake 605 
 
 And comyn euenlich, is good therfore. 
 
 And if thyn hen be louse, ther is more : 
 
 Sle luys ^ith staphisagre & comyn 
 
 I grounde in wyn & luce of sour lupyn. 
 
 \I)e pavonibim. Capituliim xx.viiiij.] 
 The pocok me may rere vp esely 010 
 
 If l)eestes wilde or theuys hem ne greue. 
 Her briddis wul they feede vp bysily 
 In feeldis forth, & up they goth at eue 
 Intil a tre, lest they by nyght myscheuc. 
 But war the fox as whil they sitte abrood. CIS 
 
 To sette hem in an iland is ful good. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 12. [fol. 24.] 
 And for a cok both hennys flue ynowe. 
 The cok his eyron and his briddis hateth 
 Vntil the crest uppon theire hedis growe. 
 And first in ffeueryeer of loue he prateth, C20 
 
 And benis bake alite his loue abateth — 
 
 610 No designation of chapters occurs until scribe B 
 begins again. 620 Ms. feueryecr. Ms. pretcth, B. prateth. 
 
46 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernauce. [Book I 
 
 Ryght nere a del yf that he ete hem warme, 
 
 ffor they wol rather his corrage enarme. 
 
 The cok confesseth emynet Cupide 
 
 When he is gemmy tayl bygynnyth splay 625 
 
 About hymself, so fair on eiiery side 
 
 That neuer foul was in so fressh aray. 
 
 A shoughtwryng, a flusshyng, & a fray 
 
 He niaketh then, & turneth hym aboutc, 
 
 Al gold bygoon his tail & wyngis stoutc. 630 
 
 The pohen ek excusid, if me sette 
 
 Anotlier hen her eyron forth to brynge, 
 
 Wol legge in on yeer thries dew as dette; 
 
 V at the first, and iiij at eft leggynge, 
 
 And after, iij or ii. But for bredynge, 635 
 
 To sette an hen on eyron ix is good, 
 
 ffoure of hir owne & v of pocok blood. 
 
 The first day of the mone is this to do — 
 
 The x*^® day the iiij away bo take, 
 
 And other iiij enstore her place into. 640 
 
 To turne hem ofte, also, good heed to take, 
 
 ffor sche may not the turnyng vndertake. 
 
 Yet take for that a strong hen & a gret: 
 
 A litel hen on fewer most be sette. 
 
 The xxx"'^ day gooth all out of the shcllo, [fol. '24a.] 645 
 
 And oon norice may xxv lede — 
 
 So say not y, but [so] sayth Columelle — 
 
 ffyftene, y sey, suffice oon hen to fede. 
 
 And first for hem spryng wynes white or reed 
 
 On barly seed; or puis decoct & cold 650 
 
 To yef hem first, is good & holsum holde. 
 
 And after, hacked leek or tendir chesis 
 
 Let fede hem with; but whey let hold hem fro: 
 
 625 emynet] B eniynent— see twie. C32 Ms. or, Ji licr. 
 
 643 Ms, hem, B hen. 647 Ms. but sayth, B but so saith. 
 
Book IJ Aier, Watir, Loud, and Grouernamice. 47 
 
 Eek plucke away the feet & yef hem bresis. 
 
 And monthis vj hit is to fede hem so, G55 
 
 And after yef hem barly to & to 
 
 Right as the lyst; but xxx daies olde, 
 
 They with their norce into the feld be tolde. 
 
 She now behynde, & now sche goth byfore 
 
 And clocketh hem; but when she fynt a corn, 600 
 
 She chicketh hem & layth hit hem byfore, 
 
 Hem ledyng hom at nyght lest they be lorn. 
 
 Eke hele hem of the pippe, as is byforn 
 
 Of hennys taught. But when their crestis apryngo, 
 
 As seek ar they as childron in tothynge. 665 
 
 [De fasiania. Capitulinn xxix^ 
 
 Fesauntis vp to bryng, is thus to do: 
 
 Tak noon but of oon yecr, for infecounde 
 
 Are old; and iirst in Marche vppon they go 
 
 Theyr wyuys, but the malis nought aboundc 
 
 In coitu, though they be fatte & rownde. 670 
 
 On cok for hennys tweyne, and euery hen 
 
 Wol onys sitte on eyron twycs ten. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 13. [fol. 25.] 
 A cow?mune hen may wel apon xv 
 Of hem be sette, and of hyr owne a fewe; 
 And chaunge hem as byforn at dayes dene^ 675 
 
 At xxx dayes ende owt wol they schewe; 
 ffyrst feede hem dayes thries flue arewe 
 With barly coct & cold & wyu bispronge-; 
 And after bresed whete & bresis'' longe. 
 
 Aunt eiron* yef hem eke. And kepe hem fro 680 
 The water for the pippe; and yf hit haue hem, 
 With garlec stampid wel & tar'* therto 
 
 660 Ma. acorn, B acorne. 680 Ms. kept, B kepe. 
 
 1 X. 2 asperse. •' locustis. * forraicarJOB oua. ^ pix liquida. 
 
48 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernamice. [Book I 
 
 Her bekis^ frotyd hard & saad, wol saue hem. 
 Her tongis eke, ryght as an hen, to shaue hem, 
 And ryght as hennys- hele her maladye, fi85 
 
 Is good. To fatte hem eke is husbondrie. 
 
 With whete a strike, or other half a stryke 
 
 Of barly mele, enoyled" offed lyte, 
 
 In dayes thries x, let make hem slyke 
 
 And faat ynough, so that theyr appetite 690 
 
 Be seruyd wel, and that non offis white 
 
 Englame vppon the rootes of theyr tonge, 
 
 ffor that and honger sleth this briddis yonge. 
 
 [Be anserihus. Capitulum xxx.] 
 The goos with grasse* & water vp is brought; 
 To plaunt and tre an open foo is she: 6iJ5 
 
 Her bytyng harmeth corn, her dong is nogiit. 
 Take for oon male of hem females thre, 
 And twie a yeer deplumed may they be. 
 In spryngyng tyme and heruest tynie. Eke make 
 ffor hem, if other water wont, a lake. 700 
 
 For wont* of gresse, on trefoil" let hem byte, [fol. 25a.] 
 
 On gooldis wilde', on letuce^, greekish hey" 
 
 The hoddid*" goos, the broun" goos, as the white 
 
 Is not fecounde. And why? ffor, as they sey, 
 
 Out of the kynde of wilde gees com they. 705 
 
 ffro Marche kalendis gees to sette obrood 
 
 Vntil the day be lengest, is ful good. 
 
 691 Ms. ofiice, B offes. 095 Ms. The, B To. 707 
 
 omitted by the scribe and added by him at boitmn of pa ye. No 
 space between this and folltwing stanza. 
 
 1 rostris. 2 gallinarum. 3 oliato. i liorlin. B dofcctu. 
 6 trifilio (sic). '' ijitu&is ngrestibifs. ^ lactiice. 9 feno greco. 
 10 vaiii colnrKH^. H fusca. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. 49 
 
 An hen vppon the[y]r eyron maist thou sette, 
 
 As of the pocok seid is now bifore; 
 
 But lest thyn hennys eyron shuld ought lette, 710 
 
 Ley nettelys^ vndir ^ith, and euermore 
 
 The laughter last. Vnto the moders lore 
 
 Is to bo left, that they may ^ith their children 
 
 Laugh & be glad, as wiiA hem were her eldron. 
 
 Ten dayes first let hem be fed withinne, 715 
 
 And thenne in wether feire do forth hem lede. 
 
 But nettelis^ war from hem, this briddis twynne. 
 
 And fatte hem xxx dales old for nede; 
 
 At monthes foure al faat, me may hem fede 
 
 fllour thrye a day; and let hem not go large. 720 
 
 In warme & derke to close hem y the charge. 
 
 Eek myld" is good; also in euery mete. 
 
 Al manor puis is good, the ficche outake. 
 
 Swyn heris bristlis* keep hem lest they ete. 
 
 Twey partis bran^ viith flour" this Grekis take 725 
 
 Wit water hoot commixt. Also they make 
 
 Her water thryes fresshed euery day 
 
 And onys in the night, this is no nay. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 14. [fol. 26.]* 
 Tf thou desirest that thi gees' be tendir. 
 When they in age ar passid xxx dales, 730 
 
 Of figis grounde and watir temprid, sclendir 
 Gobbettis* yef thy gees. But these ^ arayis 
 To speke of heere, for nought but myrth & play is ; 
 Yet as myn auctor spak so wold I speke, 
 Sith I translate, and looth am from hym breke. 735 
 
 708 Ms. ther, B thaire. Ms. me may, -B maist thou. 716 
 Ms. fere, B faire. 732 Ms. goblettis, B gobbettes. 
 
 1 vrticas. 2 vrticas. 3 milium, * setas. 5 furfurio. 6 polenta 
 T ance. 8 offulas. 9 interpositio translatoris. 
 * In hand B. 
 
50 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Be pissinis. Capitulum xxxj. 
 
 riMiis doonS is other thyngis forto do: 
 
 J- Twey poondis^ must thou make in erthe or stoon, 
 
 Not fer from liome, and bryng watir therto 
 
 Of sprynge or rayn^; for watir foul* that oon 
 
 To swymme, also thy beestis to to goon; 740 
 
 That other weete in hidis^ yerdis drie, 
 
 Lupyne and other [thyng] for husbondrie. 
 
 Se fenili paleario Ugnariogne. Oapitulmn xxxij. 
 
 For hey," for chaf, for tymber-'*, and for reedis" 
 Mak housyng as thee list, hit is no charge^". 
 In drie and wyndy placis ther no drede is 745 
 
 Of firyng hem; and for that, al at large. 
 Away from home ordeyne hem y thee charge"; 
 A fyr is foul affray in thingis drie. 
 And now for donge^^, another husbondrie. 
 
 De stercuUnio, Capitulum xxxiij. 
 
 ^^\lJ rayddyng sette hit weete, as hit may rote 750 
 - And sauour nought; eek sette hit out of sight. 
 The seed of thorn in hit wol dede and dote. 
 Thyn assis^** donge is rathest forto dight 
 A gardyn with; sheep" donge is next of myght, 
 And aftir geet^^ and neet," eek hors and maris^'; 755 
 But donge of swyn^** the werst of al this ware is. 
 
 Askis^* beth good and so hoot is no donge [fol. 26 a.] 
 Of foul as of the dowue^", a," quyshte^^ out take. 
 And oon yeer oold is nought for herbis yonge 
 
 740 Mss. togoon. 742 Ma. omits thyng, B thing. 
 
 1 ]jO ,jo_ 2 pissinas. 3 scatebra vel pluuia. 4 auibM« a,qua- 
 ticis. 5 madefacias coria. 6 feno. 7 palea, 8 ligno. 9 cannis. 
 10 now refert. H prccipio tibi. 12 fimo. 13 assinorum [!] 1* ouium 
 15 caprarwrn. 16 bourn. 1'^ equorum et equarMw. 18 porcorMm. 
 19 cineres. 20 cohuiibe. 21 y^o jo '^(.■nidently re.ferrmy to the clause 
 which folloiDS.] 22 palurubo. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Goueruaunce. 51 
 
 And good for corn, but elder thou forsake. 760 
 
 ffresh donge is best thy meedis^ mth to make. 
 See sly me ^ al fresh ywesshe and slyme of flood, 
 With other donge ymynged, is right good. 
 
 De locis orti & pomarij sepesgue serendo. Capitnlam xxxiiij. 
 
 Thy gardyn and thyn orchard,** sette hem nygh. 
 The gardyn fro the myddyng* softe enclyne 765 
 That luce'^ of that amonge thyn herbis sigh; 
 And watir in sum stede away declyne. 
 Eek yf thee lakke a welle", a wynche' enmyne; 
 And yf thou may not so, let make a stewe* 
 With rayn watir, thyn herbis to renewe; 770 
 
 And yf that helpe hit not, let delue hit deepe 
 
 Thre foote or iiij in wise of pastynyng. 
 
 That hit may in hit silf his moystour kepe. 
 
 And euery lond al though a man may bryng, 
 
 With help of dongyng hit, into tilyng, 775 
 
 Yet is the chalk *• or cley lond forto eschewe, 
 
 And from the rede also thy garth" remewe. 
 
 Eek yf thy garth be drie in his nature, 
 
 Departe hit, and in wyntir southward delue 
 
 Hit vp, and in the somer do thy cure 780 
 
 Vppon Septemtrioun to ouerwhelue 
 
 Hit vpsodoun; thus wol hit saue hit selue. 
 
 The garth eek closed is in dyuerse wise — 
 
 Diuersed wittis dyuersly diuise. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 15. [fol. 27.] 
 Hym liketh" best a daubed wougy^ and he^^ 785 
 Wol haue a wal of cley and stoon, and stonys 
 Withouten cley another wol hit be; 
 Another with a diche aboute ygoon is — 
 
 1 prata. 2 Umus. 3 pomarum (sic). * sterculinio. 5 sucous. 
 6 fens. '? puteum. 8 piscinam. 9 creta. l" ortum. H alicui placet. 
 12 paries. 13 alius. 
 
52 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Grouernaunoe. [Book I 
 
 War that, for that the werst of euerychoon is, 
 
 That diche wol drie vp humours of thy londe; 790 
 
 Yit if thy garth^ be mire, a diche may stonde. 
 
 OoH plaunteth thorn, another soweth seedis; 
 
 But brembil^ seed" and seed of houndis thorn* 
 
 Booth wel; and gedir that as ripe as nede is. 
 
 With ficchis^ flour ywattrid wel biforn, 795 
 
 Let modle al this seed. Lest hit be lorn, 
 
 In ropis kept this confect meddillynge 
 
 Be, til the tyme of veer or of spryngynge. 
 
 Thenne ere" a doubil forgh' iij foote, asondir 
 
 As fer as thou wilt close, and deepe a foote, 800 
 
 This roopis with this seedis close hem vndir; 
 
 Light molde aboute and on, anoon let wroote. 
 
 This doon,* at xx dayis ende a roote 
 
 In erthe, a braunche in ayer, wol reche aboute. 
 
 Now rayle hem, and of closure is no doute. 805 
 
 Let veer go delue, if heruest shal go sowe. 
 
 If veer shal sowe hit, heruest most go delue; 
 
 So shal ereither werk ben ouerblowe 
 
 With coold or hoot vndir the signys twelue. 
 
 Mark out thi tablis® vchon bi hym selue; 810 
 
 Six foote in brede, and xij in length is best 
 
 To dense and make on euery side honest. 
 
 [fol. 27a.] 
 In placis weete^" or moyst", mak euery brinke 
 Too foote in heigth, oon foote in placis drie. 
 And yf thyn humour from thyn herbis synke, 815 
 
 804 In right margin opposite : tropus. 807 In right 
 
 margin opposite: Metonomia. 
 
 1 ortMS. 2 rubi. 3 iiior[i id est b]ati The gloss is hlotted. 
 i rubi canini. 6 erui. 6 ara. 7 sulcum. 8 h° i". 9 vel beddis. 
 10 humidis. H irriguis. 
 
Book IJ Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. 53 
 
 Dispose hit so that hit fro phicis hie 
 Descende, and do^ thy lond to fructfie, 
 And thennys to another part precede; 
 And so to euery part as hit is nede. 
 
 To sowe and graffe although y sette a tyme, 820 
 
 Yet graffe and sowe as men do thee biside. 
 
 In placis cold, thyn heruest seed bytyme 
 
 Is best to haste, in springinge seed tabide; 
 
 In placis hoot eek chaunge ereithir tide. 
 
 To graffe and sowe in growynge of the mone, 825 
 
 And kitte or mowe in wanyng, is to done. 
 
 f6 
 
 De remedis ortorum vel agri. Gapitulam xxxv. 
 
 For blychenyng^ and myst° take chaf* & raf^ 
 And ley hit on thy lond in dyuers stedis; 
 And when thou sist the myst, let brenne vp chaf 
 And raf. Eek as for hail" a russet weede' is 830 
 To kest vpon the querne.* Also hit nede is 
 Al blody axis" here, and heuen threte 
 In hardy wise, as hym to sleen or bete. 
 
 Crirde eek thy garth" aboute in vynys white, 
 
 Or, sprad^^ the wyngis out, sette vp an oule^^ — 835 
 
 Why laugh ^^ ye so? this craft is not so lite; 
 
 Or take thy spadis^*, rakis'*^, knyf, and shoule". 
 
 And euery toole in beris grees" defoule. 
 
 Eek summe han stamped oil with grees of beris 
 
 To grece her vynys knyf, for dyuers deris; 
 
 822 Ms. And ther is cold, B In places cold. 825 Opposite 
 in left margin: Nota. 830 Ms. as r. w. B a r. w. 839 Opposite 
 in left margin: ypalage. 
 
 1 faciat. 2 rubigine. ^ nebula. ^ paloas. 5 puj'gamenta. 
 6 grandine. "^ ya.nnus russeus. 8 molam. 9 cruentas secures. 
 10 ortuw. 1^1 h° d". 12 bubonem. 13 interpositio. 1* vangas. 
 15 rastra. 16 tribulam. i'' vrcino cepo. 
 
54 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Gouernaunce. 16. [fol. 28.] 
 But that a man most do ful pryuely, 
 That nere a werkman wite. And this is good 
 ffor frost and myst and wormys sikirly, 
 But as y triste in Crist that shedde his blood 
 ffor vs, whos tristith this, 1 hold hym wood. 845 
 
 Myn anctour eek, whos list in hym trauayle, 
 Seith this prophaned thyng may nought auaile. 
 
 Oildreggis^ fresh for gnattis and for snaylis. 
 
 Or chamber soot is good to kest aboute. 
 
 ffor auntis^ eek an oulis herte' auayle is 850 
 
 To putte vppon her bed, and al the route 
 
 A trayne of chalk or askis* holdith oute. 
 
 Thy seed with luce"^ of rukel or syngrene" 
 
 To wete, vp sleeth the rukel, as men wene. 
 
 Eek figtre askis oon on rukul throwith, 855 
 
 Another hangith vp or sowith squylle, 
 
 The thridde amonge his wortis chicchis^ sowith, 
 
 ffor wondris* fele; and he seith as to kille 
 
 The rukul and fele other thyngis ille, 
 
 A menstruate vngird womman, vnshood, 860 
 
 Vntressed, al aboute to goon is good. 
 
 Flood crabbis heer and ther to crucilie, 
 
 He seith is good. But beestis forto sle 
 
 That dooth thy vynys harrae — let sle the flye, 
 
 The cantaride* in rosis that we se; 865 
 
 Putte hem in oil, and roten when they be. 
 
 Thy vyne yf thou shalt kitte, enoynte aforn 
 
 Thy knyf with this, for this craft is no scorn. 
 
 [fol. 28a.J 
 Oil dreggis^" and oxe galle" is good for gnattis^^, 
 
 845 In right margin: Auctor loquitur. 
 
 1 Eimurca. 2 formicas. 3 noctue cor. 4 crete vel cineris. 
 5 succo. 6 eruce vel semperuiue. '^ cicer. 8 portentis. 9 cantaridem. 
 10 amurca. H fel bubulum. 12 aontra cunices vel culices. 
 
Book IJ Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunoe. 55 
 
 So that the beddis therwith thou enoynt; 870 
 
 Eek oil and yuy"- grounds as good as that is, 
 
 Or watir lechis^ brent. Another poynt: 
 
 Thy wortis that the worrays not disioynt", 
 
 The sedis in a tortous skyn* thou drie, 
 
 Or mynte'* amonge thy cool thou multiplie. 875 
 
 Eek ficchis* brese, of hem that radish' spryngith, 
 
 Or rape; or thus: tak luce of liennebane * 
 
 With sour aysel, and hem to gidir myngith, 
 
 And kest hem on youre cool" in euery pane. 
 
 Ereithir wol be wort[e]wormys bane^". 880 
 
 Brenne" heer and ther" the heedles garlek stolis^", 
 
 The stynke of hit for hockis" help & hele is. 
 
 The vyne knyf with garlec forto frote^^ 
 
 Is good. Eek cley and brymston^" yf mo bronne 
 
 Aboute a vyne, anoon this hockis rote^'. 885 
 
 Or hocke in watir yf me sethe, and thenne 
 
 Aboute in al the gardyn do hit renne. 
 
 The hocke hit sleeth; but bringe hit fro withoute, 
 
 Myn auctowr seith, fro sum garth nygh aboute. 
 
 Yppon thy whetstoon^^ sle the cantaride, 890 
 
 The canteride a vyne if he enfeste". 
 
 And Demotrie^" he seith that mysbitide 
 
 Shal neither seed or tre by wornie or beeste 
 
 Of flood or see, x crabbis^^ yf thou keste 
 
 With watir in an erthen potte ywrie,^^ 895 
 
 Ten dayis throut^■^ vntil the vapur die. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 17. [fol. 30.]* 
 And herbe or tre to moyste^* in this licour 
 
 880 Ms. wortwormys, B worte wormes. 
 
 1 hedera. 2 sanguisuge. 3 destruant. * tostudinis coreo (5(c). 
 5 mentam. ^ eruum. '^ radix. 8 iosquiami (hyosciamus). 9 cauleni. 
 10 pulicum oleruHi destrucci'o vel mors, n combui'e. l"-^ divisim. 
 13 fusticulos. 1* contra campas. i^ falcom putatoriam cum allio 
 frioare. 16 bitumiwe. -sulphur, i'^ vel dote. 18 cotem. 19 nooeat. 
 20 s. talis auctor. 21 cancros. 22cooperta. 23 gui, (jimj. 24niadidare. 
 *See Introduction. 
 
56 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Vche eightith day is suffisaunt, seith he/ 
 
 To hele and helpe hem forth in fruyt and flour; 
 
 But hold ay on, hit holpen tyl thou se. 900 
 
 Pismyris^ yet, yf thou wolt make hem fle, 
 
 Kest origane ystamped with brymstoon 
 
 Vppon their hole, and oute they fleeth anoon. 
 
 The same is doon -^ith cokul shelhs^ brent. 
 
 Eek brymstoon and galbane out chasith gnattis.'' 905 
 
 Also the fleen^ wol sleen, on thy pament 
 
 Oildreggis^ ofte yspronge'. Eek mys & rattis^ 
 
 This dreggis mo wol sle than dooth thy cattis, 
 
 So hit be thicke and pourid® in a ponne;" 
 
 The mous" by nyghtertale^^ on hit wol fonne. 910 
 
 Elebur blak^^ with fatte," or breed, or chesc, 
 
 Or flour, coMimyxt and offrid hem wol sleen. 
 
 Cucumber^^ wyld and colloquynt^" do brese — 
 
 The luce wole sle the mys, as dyuers men 
 
 Han seid. A yet another craft sleeth fleeii^': 915 
 
 Wattrid cucumber seed, or comyn grounde,^** 
 
 Lupyne, or psilotre^', kest on the grounde.^" 
 
 As for the feeld mous,^^ Apuleyus^^ 
 
 Seith, good is all his greyne in oxis galle^" 
 
 A man to stepe^* and sowe hem thenne; or thus: 920 
 
 With affadille^* vp close her holis alle; 
 
 They gnawe^" hit out, but deed doun shal they falle 
 
 Right forth with al, they shal hit not eschewe. 
 
 The moldy warp ^' the Grekis thus pursue^*: 
 
 902 Ms. stamped, B ystamped. 
 
 1 s. Demotriti^s. 2 formicas. '^ coclearMW testis. * culices. 
 5 pulices. 6 amwrca. 7 aspcrsa. 8 mures et i-attones. 9 infusa. 
 10 patena. H mus. 1^^ noctu. adu«j-bialit«r. 13 eleboru?» nigrum. 
 1* adipe vel pane vel oasio {sic)A^ cucumer. 18 coloquintidam. I'^macctat 
 {sic) pulices. 18 coniinum tritum. 19 psilotrum. 20 terram. 21 argesti 
 mure. 22 jHe auctor. 23 semen in bubulo felle. 24 macerate. 
 25 rododaphnes. 26 rodunt. 27 talpam. 28 persecuMtur. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Goueruaunce. 57 
 
 [fol. 30 a.] 
 Thej' thurle a nutte\ and stuffe hit so withynne 925 
 With brymstoon, chaf, and cedria, this thre; 
 Thenne alie her hoolis ther the mold^ is ynne 
 Saue oon, the moost, vnstoppid must they be. 
 The fired nuttis smolder"' throgh shal fie 
 This grettist hole, as wol the wynde' hem serue, 930 
 And outher shal this talpis^ voide or sterue. 
 
 Yet for the mous^ kest oken askis" so 
 
 Aboute her hole, in hit that thei' may trede. 
 
 The scabbe* anoon wole rise and hem fordo. 
 
 ffor eddris, spritis, monstris," thyng of drede, 935 
 
 To make a smoke and stynk is good in dede. 
 
 Brent hertis horn, or gootis cleen, or rootis 
 
 Of lily brent, or galbane — al this boote is. 
 
 The Greek ^'' seith eek that if a cloude arise 
 
 Of bresis'^ smert, men must in house hem hide, 940 
 
 And they wol voide. A craft eek they dyuyse: 
 
 That^^ bresis seyn,^^ men fie to house and bide 
 
 In house, and as they'* come, away they glide. 
 
 Cucumber wylde, or sour lupyne, in drestis 
 
 Of oil commyxt, wol dryue away this beestis." 945 
 
 And other seyn that scorpions and these,^" 
 
 If summe of hem be brent, wul voide vchon. 
 
 And other als seyn hockis" forto lese^* 
 
 Keste figtre aske" on hem, and, but they goon. 
 
 Oil dregge^* and oxe vryne yliche anoon 950 
 
 Let mynge and boile, and when hit coled is, 
 
 Birayne^^ aboute vppon thy wortis this. 
 
 1 perforant nucem. 2 talpa. 3 nucis fumis. * tulpo {sic) 
 5 mure. ^ quernos cineres. "^ s. mures. 8 scabies. " serpentibits, 
 spiritibus, portentis. ' 10 Grecus. " locustaritm. 12 h" d". 13 lo- 
 custis visis. i* s. locuste. 15 locustas. 16 loouste. " campas. 
 18 -periere. confundere. 19 ficulneum cinerem. 20 amurcam. 
 21 complue. 
 
58 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Grouernaunce. [Book I- 
 
 Gouernaunce. 18. [fol. 29.] 
 The Grek seith that a beest,* prosacoride, 
 The garth ennoyeth^ myche, and remedie 
 Is this for that: a rammys paunche" at hide 955 
 
 Al h'ghtly so, ther as they multiplie; 
 When Phebus chare hath goon aboute hit twye* 
 Ther shaltou fynde hem heped; sle hem tliere 
 A. twye or thrie, and they ne shal thee dere. 
 
 Tet eff* for hayl," a cocodrillis hide, 960 
 
 A seecalf skyn, or of a leonesse 
 
 Bere vp aboute thy londe' on euery side; 
 
 And whan thou dredist hail or heuynesse. 
 
 Let honge hit in thy yatis and ingresse** 
 
 Of lious or toun. Or thus: in thy right honde 965 
 
 A myris tortous* bere aboute thy londe; 
 
 But bere hir bolt vpright,^" and turne ayayn 
 
 Eight as thou went, and ley hir doun vpright, 
 
 And vndirsette hir crokid bakke, that mayn" 
 
 Hir lakke agayn to turne hir silf dounright.^^ 970 
 
 This f " is a. craft of witte, a thing of myght, 
 
 ffor al the lond that thou hast goon aboute 
 
 ffro cloudis wicke is saaf, this is no doute. 
 
 Whenne other seen derke cloudis ouerhowue. 
 
 The shappe" of hit they take in a myrrour", 975 
 
 And outher thus from hem his harm they showue, 
 
 Or to sum other doublith his terrour. 
 
 Amydde a vyne another thyng socour 
 
 ffor euery myscheef is a seecalf hide, 
 
 Aboute a quykke calf girde on euery side. 980 
 
 957 Left margin: circumlocutio. 962 3h. a yerd, B thi 
 
 lande (Lat. per spatia possessionis). 967 Ms. hit, B hir. 973 
 BigM margin: yronia. 
 
 1 animal. 2 orto nocet. "* veruetis ventncMlttm. * post duos 
 dies. 5 iteram. 6 grandine. 7 circa ortum. ** ingressu. 9 pa- 
 lustrem testudincni. i" rcsupinain. n vigore. 12 siipinam. 13 jn- 
 terpositio. l* ymagincm. 15 speculo. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. 59 
 
 Tliji- seedis with cucumber rotis grounde [fol. 29a.] 
 
 Let stepe,^ aud saaf of euerj mys they are. 
 
 Another thyng that lightly may be founde, 
 
 The caluair of an horsid asse^ or mare," 
 
 Sette vp that — that wole make al wel to fare 985 
 
 On eue»-y side as fer as hit may se; 
 
 Thus* seith the book, and thus I trowe* hit be. 
 
 De area triture. Capitulum xxxvj. 
 
 Thy thresshyng* floor be not to fer away 
 ffor beryng and for stelyng as the gise is 
 Of seruauntis. Of llynt ek, yf thou may, 990 
 
 This floor be maad, or hewen stoon bi sisis. 
 Or watir myxt the grount, the iij*** wise is, 
 Vpshette aboute, and trampled vfith catel, 
 Maad playn and [dried] aftir, wol do wel. 
 
 And nygh hit make a place high, playn, & pure, 995 
 
 When neede is, ther to cole'' vpon thy corn. 
 
 This wol auayle and make hit longe endure; 
 
 Thenne aftir to thy berne hit may be born. 
 
 Eek lest thy grayn in shouris* shul be lorn. 
 
 Right holsum is to haue an hqus biside, 1000 
 
 That for a shour" in that hit myght abide. 
 
 But make hit high, on euery half perflable, 
 
 ffer fro thy garth,^" thyn orchard, & thy vynys; 
 
 ffor right as chaff and donge is profltaI)le 
 
 On rootis, and vpbryngith breed & wynys, 1005 
 
 Right so the same, vppon the top a pyne is. 
 
 The llouris and the buddis wol they drie, 
 
 And thorle hem thorgh, and make hem so to die. 
 
 991 Ms. bisisis, B besides. 994 Ms. omits dried, B dried. 
 1005 Bight margin: metonomia. 1006 Ms.yeny is, B pynne is. 
 
 1 macernre. '^ s. now virgin?*. 3 aquae non virginis. 
 i interpositio. 5 quia talia non vident. 6 area. 7 refrigerare. 8 jnj. 
 bribus. ^ imbre. 10 orto. 
 
60 Aier, Watir, Loiid, and Gouernaunoe. [Book I 
 
 Gouernaunce. 19. [fol. 31.] 
 
 De apium castris. Gapitulum xxxvij. 
 
 The be yerd^ be not fer, but fair aside, 
 Gladsora-, secrete, andhoote, alfro thewynde, 1010 
 Square, and so bigge, into hit .that no theef stride, 
 Ther flouris in colouris of their kynde. 
 In busshis, treen, & herbis they* may fynde — 
 Herbe origane, and tyme, and violette; 
 Eek affadille* and sauery there be sette, 1015 
 
 And curiage', and gladiol the longe; 
 
 Eek aniarak, and other fresshest flouris — 
 
 Eosraary," yuy, rose, and lily spronge 
 
 In busshis. Eek the blossom greet socour is 
 
 Of euery tre ther swethesse in the flour is — 1020 
 
 Ook, fold, and birche, eek terebynt and lynde. 
 
 But vtre' that is nought, leue hit byhynde. 
 
 Of tyme is ■wex* and hony maad swettest; 
 
 Of tymbra, peletur and origon. 
 
 Is next to that; and aftir hem is best 1025 
 
 Of rosemary and sauery; thenne is noon 
 
 So good as they but rustyk swete vchoon. 
 
 Septemtrion sette treen vppon his side; 
 
 And busshe' aboute vndir the wal diuide. 
 
 And aftir busshis, herbis to the playn, 1030 
 
 A sobur brook amydde or ellis a welle 
 
 With pullis" faire; and bowis ore hit trayn 
 
 So lough and rare, on hem that bees^^ may dwelle 
 
 1016 No space between this and preceding stanza, 
 
 1 apium ortus. 2 apricus. 3 apes. * rododapbnes. 5 curiago. 
 6 ros raarinus. '' taxus. ^ cera. 9 Iruticcs. i" lacunus {sic). 
 11 bees (sic). 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Gouernaunce. CI 
 
 And drynke ynougli; but fer awey propelle 
 Horrepde odour of kichen, bath, gutteris^ 1035 
 
 Eddris^ to sleen and foulis' out to fere is. 
 
 The keper pure and chast and with hem ofte, [foI.Sla.] 
 
 His hyuys* hauynge redy forto take 
 
 His swarmys'' yonge, and sette hem feire olofte. 
 
 The smelle of donge and crabbis brent, aslake 10-10 
 
 Awey from hem; and placis that wole make 
 
 A voys" ayeyn, as ofte as me wole calle, 
 
 Is nought for hem; eek nought is titymallc. 
 
 This tapsia, this wermot, and eleure,' 
 
 Cucumber wiide, and euery bitter kynde 1045 
 
 Of herbe is nought for hem. As hem is louere, 
 
 Let make her hyuys alle of thynner rynde^ 
 
 Hit is not angry hoot ner coold vnkynde. 
 
 Take ferule eek, or saly twiggis take 
 
 Ye may, but pottei-s hyuys thou forsake. 1050 
 
 Or make an hyue of boordis lyk a stonde," 
 
 ffor that is good, or hewe anholowe treo^" 
 
 And therof make hem hyuys [in] to stondo". 
 
 But thre foot hie on stulpis must ther be 
 
 A floor for hem; wel whited .thou hit see, 1055 
 
 So maad that lisardis^^ may not ascende, 
 
 Ner wickid worm, their castels forto offendc. 
 
 Thyn hyuys^^ heer thou sette alite a sundir. 
 
 Her entre turne hit faire vp[on] the south. 
 
 No larger than a be may trede in vndir. 1060 
 
 Wikettis" too or thre let make hem couth, 
 
 That yf a wickid worme oon holis mouth 
 
 1053 Ms. omits in, B into. 1058 Ms. a litil, B alite. 1059 
 Ms. vp the south, B upon the s. 
 
 1 fusoriis. 2 serpentes. 3 aues. * apiaria. b examina. 
 6 s. ecco. ^ eleborus. 8 intmori cortice. 9 cupe. W cauiun lig- 
 num. 11 stare. 12 lacerte. is apiaria. i* portnlas. 
 
62 Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Bisege or stoppe, another opun be,^ 
 
 And from the wickid worm thus saf thy bee^. 
 
 Gouernaunce. 20. [fol. 32.] 
 
 De apihiis emendis. Capitulum xxxviij. 
 
 To bey^ thy been biholde hem riche and fulle, 1065 
 Or preue hem by their murmurs* magnitude, 
 Or se the swarme; and cair^ hem yf thou wulle, 
 By nyght vpon thy bak; hem, softe enclude, 
 And toward nyght her yatis thou reclude. 
 But bey hem not to fer out from thyn ayer, 1070 
 ftor chaunge of ayer may putte hem in dispeir. 
 
 Thre dayis thenne hit is to taken heede 
 
 If al the swarm out at the yatis go; 
 
 And yf they do, thenne hit is forto drede 
 
 Lest they purpose in hast to ben ago. 1075 
 
 Yet wene" men that they wul not do so, 
 
 Aboute her hole a heyfer caluy[s] thost' 
 
 So that me cleme", and this is htel cost. 
 
 De balneis. Capittilum xxxix. 
 
 Hit is not straunge, if watir wole suffise, 
 An husbonde on his bath to be bithought, 1080 
 ffor therof may plesaunce and helthe arise. 
 Toward the sonne on drie hit must be wrought. 
 Southwest and south the sonnys" in be brought. 
 Til at al the day hit may be warm and light. 
 The cellis suspensuris thus thou dight: 1085 
 
 First floore hit ij feet thicke enclynynge softe 
 The fourneis ward, so that the flaume vpbende 
 The cellis forto chere and cliaufe olofte: 
 And pilis^" maad of tills must ascende 
 
 1063 In left margin traduccio. 1067 cair] B carie see 
 
 note. 1077 Ms. caluy, B calues. 
 
 1 sit. 2 apeni. 3 coinparave. * murmuns. » \roliere. ^ cre- 
 dunt. 7 yituli pj'imogeniti stercus. 8 allinatur. 9 vel lightis. 10 pile. 
 
Book I] Aler, Watir, Lond, and Grouernauncfe. 63 
 
 Too feet and half, and twey feet wyde attende 1090 
 Hem forto sette; and vpon hem thou spreede 
 A marbul floor, or tile hit yet for nede. 
 
 A milyair of leed\ the bottum^ brasse", [fol. 32 a.] 
 
 Anend the setis sette hit so withoute 
 
 The fourneys, and the fier therundir passe. 1095 
 
 A condit coold into hit bringe aboute. 
 
 Make pipi^, watir warm inward to spoute. 
 
 The cellis square oblonge, as x in breede 
 
 As for XV in lengthe, is out to sprede, 
 
 Tor heet in streit is grettir than in large. 1100 
 
 But setis* make yfourmed as thee list. 
 
 Thy somer cellis lightis let enlarge 
 
 Vppop the north; buf^ wyntir cellis wist" 
 
 ffrom north; the southern wynd is best, as wist' 
 
 Is wel. And al the wesshe* out of thi bathis 1105 
 
 The gardyn thorgh to go, therto no scathe is. 
 
 The chaumbMrs in the bathis may be wrought 
 
 As is cisterne, hit wul be wel the strenger, 
 
 And other weyis fele, if they be sought. 
 
 As clene as hit, al though they be vnstrenger. 1110 
 
 Thy wynter hous to sette eek study lenger 
 
 Vppon thy bath, for lo the grounde is maade. 
 
 -4nd hete of hit thy wyntir hous wol glade. 
 
 Be malthis calidarijs «el frigidarijs. xl capituluni. 
 
 Conuenyent hit is to knowe, of bathis 
 Whil speche is mad, what malthis bote & colde 1115 
 Are able, tlier as chynyng, clift, or skathe is. 
 To make hit hool and watir wel to holde. 
 ffor bathis hoot, ammoniak is tolde 
 
 1102 Ms. lightis lightis. 1118 Left margin: 1. romedium. 
 
 1 miliariuw plunibeuni. 2 fundiim. 3 ereum. * solia. 
 5 h" d". 6 seruatis. '^ scitura. 8 ekiuies. 
 
64 Aier, Watir, Loiid, and Gouernaunce. [Book I 
 
 Eight good, wii/j brymstoon resolute ypitte 
 
 Aboute in euery chynyng, clift, or slitte. 1120 
 
 Gouernaunce. 21. [fol. 33.] 
 Or thus: hard picche and wex tak euen wight 
 And herdis^ with; pix liquyde herto eche^ 
 An haluendel; and grounden shellis dight 
 With flour of lym — al this comroyxt wul deche" 
 Euery defaute and al the woundis leche. * 1125 
 
 White wax, hard picche,' remysse ammonyake — 
 This iij commyxt therefore is good to take. 
 
 Or thus: aminoniak remysse and flgis* 
 
 With pix liquide''' and herdis" sore ygrounde', 
 
 To cleme* vppon, right suffisauntly bigge is. 1130 
 
 Or flour of lyme in oil if thou confounde. 
 
 And heldo hit in, vphelith hit bigrounde; 
 
 But kepe hit drie a while. Eek bolis blood" 
 
 With oil and flour of lynie admyxt, is good. 
 
 Eek oister shellis drie and al togrounde^" 1135 
 
 With hard picche and with figis dooth the same. 
 
 But malthis colde in other craft let founde: 
 
 Qx blood with picche and syndir^' al toframe^^, 
 
 And make hit lyk a salue, and ouerflame 
 
 Vche hole and chen.e; or siftid askis^^ clene 1140 
 
 And seuum molton, held in euery chene. 
 
 A 
 
 De pistrino. Capitulum xlj. 
 
 nd yf thy watir come in aboundaunce, 
 As myche as may thy bathis ouerflowe 
 
 1120 Ms. yputte, B ypitte. 1121 In left margin 2. reme- 
 
 diuTO and in left margin opposite following: 1126 3. remedium, 
 
 1128 4. remedium, 113} 5. remedium, 1133 6. remedium, 
 
 ]135 7. remedium, 1137 8. remedium, 1140 9. remedium. 
 1138 Ms. fyndir. 
 
 1 stupam. 2 appone. S claude (sic). * flcus. 5 pjce liquide. 
 6 stupa. 7 tusa. 8 allinere. 9 taurin«s sanguis. 1" contuse. 
 11 scorio (sic). 12 comminue. 13 cribellatum cinerem. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Lond, and Gouernaunoe. 65 
 
 Thy bakhous'^ therwithal good is tauaunce; 
 
 A watir mylle herwith thou may auowe 1145 
 
 To make, in sparyng b6estis that shal plowe, 
 
 As hors and oxe; and so with litil care 
 
 Shal watir cornys grynde and beestis spare. 
 
 Be instrumentis agrestium. Capitiilum xlij. [fol. 33 a.] 
 
 Mak redy now vche needful instrument. 
 Let se the litel plough, the large also 1150 
 
 The londis forto enhaunce and vp to hent , 
 Ther as the soil is moyst; yet tolls mo, 
 The inattok,^ twibil," picoys* forth to go — 
 The sawis* longe and short, eek knyuys crokid 
 ffor vyne and bough, with sithis, ciclis hokid," 1155 
 
 And crokid sithis egged' on the bakke; 
 
 Shewe forth also the cambwr" knyuys lite, 
 
 In plauntis yonge a braunche away to takke, 
 
 The hokis that the fern" away shal bite, 
 
 And billis*" al this breris" vp to smyte. 1160 
 
 Get rakis, crokis, adsis,^^ and bicornys,^'' 
 
 And doubil bityng axis^* for this thornys. 
 
 Heer most be markyng^* yrons for cure beestis, 
 
 And toolis forto gelde,^" and chppe, and shore. 
 
 Eek lether cootis vs to were honest is, 1165 
 
 So their cuculle aboute our senile were;*' 
 
 And botis, cokirs, myttens most we were*^ — 
 
 ffor*' husbondis and hunters al this good is, 
 
 ffor^" they must walke in breris & in woodis. 
 
 1168 Ms. hunteris, B hunters. 
 
 1 pistrinum. 2 bidens. 3 dolobra. * ligo. ^ serre. 6 falsi- 
 hus (sic) et falcibus messoris. '' acute. 8 curuos. 9 felicem. 
 
 10 runconess. ^ vepres. 12 rastro, sarculos, ascias. i^ bicornes. 
 
 11 secures, i^ cauteres. IB forramenta oastratorMw. i'' s. caput 
 esset. 18 uti. 19 pro. 20 quia. 
 
66 A'ier, Watir, Lond, and Goueriiau'iioe. [Book I 
 
 [fol. 34.] 
 
 And heer an ende as of this first[e] hook .''. 1170 
 Of hushondrie, and thor heth other twelue 
 Vntouchid yit that y not Tndirtook 
 To do. But thus y seide vnto my selue: 
 'Y wul assay hem vp to plowe & delue'. 
 A lord to plese, how swete is to laboure: 1175 
 
 ffor that men heue and slioue and ouerwhehie. 
 
 Lo thus hit is, and thus y Crist honoure: 
 
 t 
 Laude, ymne, honour, empire & songe vnto 
 The flour of lesse spronge in Bethleem, 
 Whom Symeon seid of, and Anne, and moo 1180 
 
 In oon bisought Osanne at lersalem; 
 ffor now is goon, hope y, the werre of hem 
 My foon, and y doon nerre His prince Humfrey. 
 This incorrect, aferd lest fuke or wem 
 Enfect, y to this due directe, and sey: 1185 
 
 Serenous prince! or thus: princis flour! 
 Or thus: prince in pees and due in werro! 
 Or nay: Goddis knyght and Cristis tour! 
 Or ellis thus: londis lif and sterre 
 Of light! Or ellis: Thynge of thyngis derre! — J 190 
 Or y noot what, excedyng so nature. 
 That who thow art to sayn my wittis erre, 
 Not oonly god ner oonly creature. 
 
 [fol. 34a.] 
 But God, me semeth, best thou mayst resemble 
 ffor verite, lustice, and mansuetude, 1195 
 
 And other mo that in thy brest assemble 
 Whiche euerj lif suffisith to conclude. 
 To the these incorrectid versis rude, 
 
 1170 This epilogue is not found in B. 1181 In right 
 
 margin in same hand and in red inle: sincopa. 1189,1190 Ms'. 
 
 Orellis. 
 
Book I] Aier, Watir, Loud, and Gouernaunce. 67 
 
 Noot y not why ner how mys raetrified, 
 
 Thus ofre y, pra[i]yng thy celcitude 1200 
 
 Do that my wrong and they be iustifled. 
 
 My bone is graunt and to correctioun 
 
 That half is doon; that other half mot stonde 
 
 In hope as yit vndir protectioun. 
 
 As while y speke apart with this husbonde, liiOo 
 
 And telle hym forth the tilynge of his londe 
 
 In euery place and seson of the yeer, 
 
 Now God leue al be sadly vndirstonde. 
 
 And first wul y bygynne At lanyueer. 
 
 1200 2Is. prayng. " 1202 T/i^re is an interval of 6 lines 
 betroeen this and the preceding' stanza. 
 
11. 
 
 lANYYEEH. 
 
 lanyueer. 2f3. [fol. 35;] 
 De ablaqueandis vitibMs. Pnmum capituiutn. 
 
 At lanyueer ablaqueacioun 
 The vynys axe in placis temperate. 
 Italiens excodicacioun 
 Hit calle, and hit is hem to desolate 
 Of erthe, and al from euery roote abate. 5 
 
 Thus delues maad, on hem shal wete & hete 
 (They^ too doth al) engender grapis' grete. 
 
 De pratis abstinendis in locis maeris. ij capitulnm. 
 
 In placis glade ^ [and lene], in placis drie 
 The medis^ clensid tyme is now to make, 
 And beestis from now forth from hem to crie; 10 
 The feeldis fatte and drie on hem to wake 
 And breke* hem vp — but at the weendyng** slake 
 
 1 Large illuminated A extending the width of 3 nerses. 
 8 Ms, omits and 1., B and 1. 
 
 1 interposicjo. 2 prata. 3 apricis. * proscindere. ^ vei'surani . 
 
BtJok ir| lanyue^r. 69 
 
 T[h]e yook, thyn oxon nekkis forto cole; 
 But drawyng by the horn is no good scole. 
 
 The balkis that they calle vnered lond^ 15 
 
 And ouerheed, bihold that ther be noon. 
 
 The cloddis mailed be with mannes bond. 
 
 To wite yf al be wel, thy self aloon 
 
 Transuersal thorgh the forghis euerichoon 
 
 Let russhe ^ a rodde,* and make hem oft this wont, 20 
 
 And thi ploughmen wol not be necligent. 
 
 The fenny feeld [hit] is not forto plowe, 
 
 Lest al the yeer hit aftir be to tough 
 
 To plowe. Ek, as me seith, no thing wol growe 
 
 Thre yeer on londis drier then ynough 26 
 
 And rayn bywet, so torn vp with .the plough. 
 
 Demene [hit] in the mene of moyst and drie; 
 
 Ek sowe hit so and hit wol multiplie. 
 
 Be ordeo galatico serendo. iiij copitu^uwi. [fol. 35a.] 
 
 At lanys monys Idus, temperate 
 Ground is to sowe in barly galatyke*. 30 
 
 Viij busshell seed an aker lond is ate, 
 But first se that the wynter ha be like'''. 
 Now chiches", sowe in faat & moyst lond, like' 
 Thre strike an aker seed; yet ofte hit faileth 
 So wete or hete in flouryng hit assayleth. 35 
 
 De mcia serenda non ad pabulum «ed ad semen Jmhendum. vj cap. 
 
 And whan this Ian us xxv dayes 
 Is old, is best thi ficchis* forto sowe 
 ffor seed, but not for fodder*, for no nay is 
 
 13 3Is. Te, -B The. 21 Ms. feeld is not, B feeld it is 
 
 not. 27 Ms. Demene in, B Demeene it in. 
 
 1 inaratam tej'rara. 2 ponas. 3 particam (sic). * ordeUm 
 galaticum. 5 placida vel clemens. 6 cicercule. '^ letantwr. 8 yicias. 
 
 9 nnhilln. 
 
70 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 That^ snaylis^ rather, latte hem for to growe. 
 
 Vij busshell on an aker lond bistowe 40 
 
 When al the dewe" is offe, in houris warme; 
 
 And hele* hem, lest the nyghtis [wete] hem barme. 
 
 Be feno greco serendo legendfij semims cajwa. vij capitutum. 
 
 Feyngrek^ to haue of seed, is to be sowe 
 In Italie ene in this lanys ende; 
 Vij strike vpon an aker is to throwe.^ 45 
 
 But plowed thynne & smale is to comendo, 
 ffor fyngris foure yf lower thou descende 
 Vp may hit not. ffor thy with plowes light 
 Sumnie" ere' & sowe & rake hit with forth right. 
 
 De heruo serendo & de sariendis frumentis. viij capitulum. 
 
 Also the taaris* in this lanys ende 50 
 
 Is good to sowe in placis drie & lene; 
 V" strike vpon an aker is to spende. 
 This moone, in sonny dayes & serene, 
 Withouten frost, thi cornys wede hem clene. 
 Yet wol this werk the roote, as summen" telle, 56 
 Vnhele^" or kerue, and cold hit after quelle. 
 
 lanyueer. 24. [fol. 36.] 
 Whan whete is quaterfoyle & barly fyue, 
 And puis & benys fyngris foure asceride 
 Abouen,- erthe, hit -is, to wede hem blyue. 
 The lupyne is no wedyng on to spende; 
 Withouten help hymself hit wol defende 60 
 
 ffrom wedis alle; hit rootis hath but ;oon, 
 And yf rae wede hit, slayn hit is anoon. 
 
 39. latte] B lette. 42 Ms. nyghtis hem, -B nyghtfs 
 
 weete hem. 
 
 1 qtw'n. 2 linaces (sic). 3 roa. * opeii. 5 fenu»i 
 iliqui. 7 erawt {sic). 8 heruum. 9 aliqui. lo detegere. 
 
 5 I'enuM grecum. 
 6 aliqu 
 
Book II] lanyueer. 71 
 
 Thy bene ywedid twyes wol avaylo, 
 
 So wol hit fructifie in grettest wise. 65 
 
 Of con to haue a stryke^ is good trauaylo — 
 
 Myn auctour seith therto they wol arise. 
 
 To wede ek cornys drie, is no good gise, 
 
 ffor blychenyng after that werk is drede; 
 
 Yet barly drie, hit harmeth not to wede. . 70 
 
 De pastinandi generibus & scrobibus vitium. x capitulum. 
 
 Tliis mone is good to make in pastynynge 
 That may be maad dyuers in wises tlire: 
 In deluyng [al], or plowyng, or dicliynge. 
 The lond vnclene al doluen up mot be, 
 Of rootis, fern^, & weed"', to make hit fre; 75 
 
 But yf thy lond be ,leye* clene of wedis, 
 With diche' or forgh" to pastyne hit, no dredo is. 
 
 The forgh is best, ille humour out to wise. 
 
 Elonge ek, as thee likith best, thy lond; 
 
 Too foote & half the brede is to dyuyse. 80 
 
 Thenne, yf the vyne is dight with nj&nnes bond, 
 
 Too fote & half ther must vnered' stond; 
 
 But other wise yf vynys shal be plowed, 
 
 ffeet V or sixe of leye is hem alowed. 
 
 Too fote & half in brede it thre in length, [fol. 36a] 85 
 yf diches plese, hem make, and thre feet depe; 
 With mannys bond to tyle, or oxen strength, 
 Thyn entre space in oon maner thou kepe. 
 But lest the sciouns* crokidly vp crepe, 
 
 73 Ms. omits al, B alls. 74 In right margin : Primus 
 
 modus pastinandi. 79 Bight margin: secundus modus pasti- 
 
 nandi. 84 Ms. of sixe. B or s. 86 Left margin: iij modus 
 
 pastinandi. 
 
 1 modium. "^ Alice. ^ herbis noxeis. * nouale. ^ scrobo, 
 sulco. '' non aratum. 8 sarmenta. 
 
72 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 And harmed be whan irons depe synke, 90 
 
 Pare al the dichis euen, playn the brinke. 
 
 The first is good ij fote & half or thre 
 
 ffeet depe to turne vp alle, but diligent 
 
 Thou be lest balkis vndirclosed be. 
 
 The wardeyn with his rodde experient 95 
 
 May be therof, thorgh puttyng euery went. 
 
 Ek hepe vp euer'y roote of feme & bi'eris 
 
 And euery wede, as vsed'euery Where is. 
 
 T 
 
 De tahulis mnearum. xi capitnlum 
 
 Ihe tablis for thi vynys maystow make , 
 Here aftir as thee list, or as thi londe 100 
 
 Wol axe. An aker al hool may thou take, 
 Or half an aker wel therynne may stonde, 
 Ek of the thridde part hit may be fonde; 
 The firthe part an aker wole be square. 
 In londis mesuryng yet craftis are. 105 
 
 De mensura pastini Italica. xii capituhxm. 
 
 Of pastynyng thus mesure euery side: 
 A tabul square an aker^ lond to holde, 
 ffeet scoris^ nyne in lengthe, as fele in wide; 
 Let square hit so; therout of may be tolde 
 Of squaris x feet^ wide, whoso biholde, 110 
 
 [COO] square of x*, and twyes twelue* — 
 (This noumbre wole thyn aker" ouerwhelue.) 
 
 lauyueer. 25. [fol. 37.] 
 This noumbre what thee likith to pastyne 
 Discusseth al. Decempedes' xviij''®, 
 
 92 Left margin iterum de prmo modo pastinandi. 1 1 1 
 
 Ms. space left for ccc but not filled in, B CCC. 100 31s. 
 
 Ere, B Here. 106 Ms. Off (ff majuscule). 
 
 1 iugorum. 2 centum octoginta. 8 decempedarum. * decem- 
 pede. 5 xxiiij. 6 iugerum. 7 squares of x fote. 
 
Book IIJ lanyueer. • 73 
 
 Eenombre hem but [tymes] twyes nyneS 115 
 
 Decenipedes therof tlier sha) be sene 
 
 [ccc, iiij and iij, and xvij"^^] 
 
 As was bifore. Vche aker out thow trace 
 
 In this maner, of large or litel space. 
 
 De solo, i& celo, & locis pangendis vineis coingruente. :ciij ca^iiuXum. 
 
 Thy vynys soil- be not to niolsh"' or hard, 120 
 
 But sumdel molsh; neithir to faat ne lene*. 
 But so wel fat: ne picche hit not dounward, 
 Ne splate hit not to f[]]at, but sumwhat lene. 
 Of drie & weet also kepe hit the mene. 
 In bitter soil or salt sette I no vynys — 125 
 
 In soylis so corrupt ful sory wyn is. 
 
 The mene is best thyn ayer to qualifie, 
 
 Yet sumdel warme is better than to cokl. 
 
 Than ayer al weet is better sumdel drie; 
 
 But vynes fere'* of wynd & storm ys cold. 130 
 
 Rude erthe and namly wodlond best is hold 
 
 ffor pastynyng, and werst is holden there 
 
 As sumtyme olde vyneyerdis were. 
 
 Yet yf thou tile hit of necessite, 
 
 Let exercise and ere hit ofte biforn, 135 
 
 That rootis old & drosse" out clensed be, 
 
 And euery filth' out of this feeld be torn; 
 
 So vynes yonge in hit ther shal be born. 
 
 Eagston & thinges hard, in cold and hete 
 
 Relaxed, bereth vyneyerdes grete. 140 
 
 115 Ms. but twyes nyne, B but tymes twycs nyde (sic) 
 117 Space left for line, hut not filled in; it is here supplied 
 from B. 123 Bis. fat, B flatte. 124 Ms. Or, B of. 
 
 1 xviij. 2 solum. 3 solutum. 1 exile. 5 formidant. 6 caries. 
 7 squalor. 
 
74 lanyueer. [Booh II 
 
 [fol. 37a.J 
 Molsh cley\ & stanry^ lond, & stiryng stonys 
 Commyxt with mold, and flynt that erthe is vnder 
 (Of cold & moyst conseruatour, flynt stoon is — 
 The rootis and the sonne hit halt a sonder-') 
 Ek places into whom from hillis sonder-* 145 
 
 The londis swete, and' valeis that the flood 
 Vpfillith — al this is for vynys good. 
 
 Lond argillose, & not cley hi hit selue, 
 
 Is commodose; and ther as wrecchid greiies, 
 
 Sour^ lond, to weet, ,or salt is, neuer delue; 15 
 
 And alwey thristy* drilond in repreue is. 
 
 Vndonged sleek wole make hem lene, as preuc is; 
 
 In reed erthe ek a vyne is hard to take, 
 
 Though aftirward sumdel therynne hit wake. 
 
 But this lond is ful wikked to be wrought, 155 
 
 To hard in hete and ouer 'softe in wete. 
 
 Now speke of good lond, leuyng that is nought. 
 
 As welny rare, attemporauntly mete'; 
 
 The mydday sonne ek stonde hit with to mete 
 
 In placis colde, and to Septemtrioun 160 
 
 In placis hote enclyne hit sumwhat doun. 
 
 In placis cole** enclyne hit on the eest, 
 If est or southern wyndis nought enuye; 
 And yf they do, turne hem southwest or west. 
 Impedymentis, rootis out thou trie, 165 
 
 And tradde" hit so that wikkid herbis die. 
 Too fote & half the feld, & thre the cleves*". 
 And iiij an hil pastyned deep to cheue is; 
 
 lanyueer. 26. [fol. 38.J 
 Ronk" lond a fote & half, a valey twey 
 
 141 S stany. 165 Ms. ought, B oute. 
 
 1 resoluta glarea. '^ calculosa. 3 ab inuicem * seperantur. 
 ^ amara. 6 sitioulosus. '^ mediocris. 8 tepidus. 9 calca. lo cliui. 
 11 vliginosa. 
 
Book 11] lanyueer. 75 
 
 ffeet deep is at the best. Expert ynougli 170 
 
 Am y that vynes preueth best yf they 
 
 Be sette anoon aftir the spade or plough, 
 
 Er then the lond be woxen sadde or tough. 
 
 That this is good whether me plowe or delue 
 
 Myn auctor seith, he sawe the preef himselue. 175 
 
 Be lactuca, narstueio, alijs serendis. xiiij capituluni. 
 
 Letuce^ is to be sette ia lanyueer 
 Or December, the plantes to remeue 
 In ffeueryeer; other in ffeueryeer 
 Let sowe, and in Aprile her piauntis meuc. 
 Ek sowe hem al the yeer, wel wole tliey preue 180 
 In ronk and donged, fertil lond. But sette 
 Hem not but euen kitte & donge ywette. 
 
 Sette yf they be, let bare hem, yeue hem donge; 
 
 Moyst donged lond & lough hem likith best. 
 
 The wedis with an hond most vp be wronge, 185 
 
 And they that thynnest stondith beth gladdest. 
 
 Or slittft her leues, growen so wel prest, 
 
 And with a shelle' or hutte" adoun hem pressed, 
 
 And they wol glade & fatte vndir this presse.'^ 
 
 They wole be white, as men suppose, yf ye 190 
 
 Amonge hem grauel springe, and in the foyles 
 Grauel be bounde. Ek suche her seed may be. 
 They wexith hard; and sumtyme on the soil is 
 Hit longe, or on the tyme; ek euery foile is 
 Maad tender, twyes yf hit be transplaunted. 195 
 
 Now Cometh a, crafte is worthy to ben haunted. 
 
 In herbis letuce' vmbigoon wol growe; [fol. 38a.] 
 But ye most take a bay* of gotis donge' 
 
 188 Bight marginal note to or reading vel turfe. 
 
 1 lactuca. 2 testa. 3 gleba. ^ pj-eme. & prelo. 6 bacham. 
 ^ capn'ni stercoris. 
 
76 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 And with an aP, as craftly as ye mowe, 
 
 So make hit holgli & putte in seedis yonge, 200 
 
 Basilicon-, radish", & rucul* stronge, 
 
 Letuce** & cresce"; &^ donged wel this bay, 
 
 Do sette hit in as fyn lend as ye may. 
 
 The raphe is roote*, al other in* letuce 
 
 Vpgooth, & al on high, they wole deuydc, 205 
 
 Vche herbe in his colour, odour, & luce. 
 
 Heere is an helful thyng, a wondir wride , 
 
 Yet other men in other craft abide; 
 
 As for the same a letuce vp they pluckc, 
 
 And from his roote vche foil awey thei crucke, '210 
 
 And pricke her place, & sette in hem this seodis. 
 
 The raphe outake, and lappe hit faire in donge. 
 
 And sette hit; vp they goth vche as her seed is. 
 
 And letuce in their leues vmbiyonge^" — 
 
 blisful God, that nature is so stronge! 215 
 
 Letuce of lac derived is, perchaunce, 
 
 ffor mylk hit hath or yeueth aboundauwce. 
 
 Now cresses" sowe, & sette hem when thee list^-, 
 
 Of placis, ayer, or hour ha they no doute. 
 
 Dongyng they noon desire ^''', and though hem list 220 
 
 Humor, they axe hit not; ek grete & stoute 
 
 With letuce vp they goth. And al the route 
 
 Of rucul seme hit like this, cool also. 
 
 Garlec, vlpike ek sowe hem now bo too. 
 
 199 Ms. anal, S a nal. 200 Ms. holugh, B holowc. 
 
 204 Ms. r. of al, B r. alle. 211 Over pricke is written in hand 
 
 A vel poy — The corresponding gloss in B is pointe. 
 
 1 sudula {subula). 2 ocimum. 3 radicis. * esure (eruce"^). 
 1 lactucae. 6 narstucij (sic). '^ h" d". 8 radix. 9 vel with. 
 10 ambiunt. n narstucium (sic). 12 placet. 13 appetant. 
 
Book II] lanyueer. 77 
 
 lanyueer. 27. [fol. 39.] 
 De pomis s. sorbo, amygdalo, et nuce iuglandi. xv capitulum. 
 
 In lane, in ffeueryeer and Marche in cookl, 225 
 
 Erthe, October and Noueniber in lioot^ 
 Erthe, is settyng of seruys nobul hold, 
 So that their applis riped with foot hoot- 
 The semynair be sett in. Ek y woot, 
 My silf expert, of apples treen han growe 230 
 
 Eight faire, and brought vp fruytis right ynowo. 
 
 At Nouember to plaunte hem in hoot lond, 
 
 At thende of Marche in coolde, at lanyueer is 
 
 And ffeueryeer in tenipre lond, yfond 
 
 Ryght good. And hilly, moyst lond, cold welner, is 235 
 
 Their loue, and fattist lond her grettest cheer is; 
 
 Ek ther as se^-ues fairest and thickest 
 
 Vpsprynge is certeyn preef of land fattest. 
 
 The plauntis bigge" a depper delf desireth 
 
 And larger space, as wynd may hem to shako; 240 
 
 That gretith* hem. Ek as the caas requireth. 
 
 If hery worjnys rede her feestis make 
 
 Inwith the pith^, vnhurt" thy tre, thou take 
 
 Out summe of hem, & brenne hem nygh biside. 
 
 And outher wol they die or nought abide. 245 
 
 If they nyl' here, a wegge^ out of a bronde 
 
 Ywrought dryue yn the roote; or sumdel fro 
 
 Let diche, and feld with asshen, let hit stondc. 
 
 Ek graffe hem in Aprile is good to do 
 
 In whit thorn, in hem silf, in quynce" also, 250 
 
 In tronke^" or rynde^^- Her fruyt ek yf thou wollo 
 
 Ha kept, a party hard thou must hem pulle. 
 
 231 Ms. ynough, B ynowe. 245 outherj u written above. 
 
 1 calida. 2 e uestigio. 3 robustum. * grandescit. 5 medulla. 
 8 h° d". ^ noluwt. 8 cuneuTO. 9 cidoneo. lo tninco. H cortice. 
 
78 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 [fol. 39 a] 
 And when they softe, hem putte in pottis lite 
 Of erthe, and cley her mouthis; sette hem depe 
 Too fote, and vnder sunne ay they delite, 255 
 
 And tradde^ hem fast aboue, and let hem slepe. 
 Ek shtte & sondried^, thou mayst hem kepe, 
 And when the list, in water hoote revire" 
 They wil, and taste ene as the list desire. 
 
 Summe haue hem grene ypuld, and stoon & all 260 
 
 They honge hem vp in place opake* and drie; 
 
 And wyn mellite, as seid is, saue hem shall. 
 
 Aysel & wyn ek out of hem men trie, 
 
 As out of peris, but yf bokis lie. 
 
 Thyn almaund tre thou sette in lanyueer, 265 
 
 And yet as good for that is ffeueryeer. 
 
 In October and Nouember they sette 
 
 .Hem ther as lond is drie, as wel the seedis 
 
 As scions from the grettist rote yfette. 
 
 But for this ti'e the 'semynair in dede is 270 
 
 To delue a fote and half deep, wheryn nede is 
 
 An hondful depe, too feet to sette a sonder. 
 
 Ek south & Sonne is good to sette hem vnder. 
 
 The feeldis calculose, ek hard" and drie 
 
 They loue, and hattest ayer, forthy^ they ripe 275 
 
 And floureth with. Ek of the yonge out trie 
 
 Oon heer, oon theer, and elhswhere hem dripe; 
 
 Let stonde as fele as may thi lond begripe. 
 
 Sette ek noon almaundes but grete and newe ; 
 
 And hem is best in ffeueryeer remewe. 280 
 
 254 Ms. obey, B cley. 265 Left margin: De amigdalo. 
 
 268 Ms. londis, B lande is. 
 
 1 calca. 2 golis siccata^ 3 reuirere. i vel derke. B quia. 
 
Book II] lanyueer. 79 
 
 lanyueer. 28. [fol. 40.] 
 A day afore her settyng hem to stepe^ 
 In meth is good, but wattre hit wel for this; 
 Miche hony. myght hem harme. And summe hem kcpe 
 Thre nyght in molten^ donge, and do not mys; 
 The firthe nyght in meth hit steped" is. 285 
 
 Then is hit in the semynair* ysowe 
 Or sette, and in good tyme vp shal hit growe. 
 
 And wattre hem euery mone in droughtis ■"• thrie; 
 
 Eli delue hem [al] aboute, and wede hem clenc. 
 
 Donge ek thi semynair to raultiplie 290 
 
 Hem in. But plaunte hem twenty fote atwene, 
 
 Or at the lest asondre hem xv. 
 
 In Nouember kitte of the bowes drie, 
 
 Superfluent & thick e ek vtter trie. 
 
 If beestis bite hem, bitter wole thei be. 295 
 
 But mylge" hem not in tymes whan thoy lloure, 
 
 ffor therof wole anoon the blossum fie. 
 
 Her fertile age is feir & for thonoure; 
 
 The bareyn with a firbrond' pyn socour^ 
 
 Dryue in the bored roote; or a flynt stoon 300 
 
 So do, that hym the barke may ouergoon. 
 
 In placis cold yf frostis be to doute, 
 
 As Marcial seith, this is remedie: 
 
 Er flouryng tyme, her rootes bare aboute'* 
 
 To make, and stoonys white a companye 305 
 
 With grauel to his rootis forto plie; 
 
 And whan they burgyne out wel lijk to preue. 
 
 This stonys & grauel me may remeue. 
 
 He seith also their tender fruyt to make, [fol. 40 a.] 
 
 Er than they floure al bare" hem at the roote; 310 
 
 289 Jlfs. hem aboute, B hem alle aboute. 
 
 1 macerare. 2 liquids (sic). ' 3 iiiaoeratu?)i. * seminarig. 
 B in siccitate. 6 oircumfode. '' te^e. 8 adiuua. ^ denuda. 
 
80 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 Warme water certeyn dayes on hem slake. 
 
 And bitter yf they be, this be their boote : 
 
 Thre fyngris from the stook the^ lond remote, 
 
 Let make a kaue ille humour out to swete", 
 
 And this wol out of bitter make hem swete*. 315 
 
 Or, bored thorgh the stook, an honyed pyn 
 
 Dryue yn, or daube her roote in swynys donge. 
 
 But whan their fruyt is ripe as take hit yn. 
 
 And that is whan their huske is drie & clonge. 
 
 Withouten care a man may kepe hem longe; 320 
 
 And yf theyr huske of esily nyl* goon, 
 
 Ley hem in chaf and it wole of anoon. 
 
 Wesshe hem in see licour, when they be clone, 
 
 Or watir salt, and whit they longe endure. 
 
 In December or lanyueer demene, 325 
 
 Or ffeueryeer in cold lond, a mesure, 
 
 To graffe an almaunt tre whos graffys pure 
 
 Out of the toppe. Bk graffe in stocke or ryndo, 
 
 In pechis and ek in their propur kynde 
 
 This Grekis seyn almaundes me may make 330 
 
 With lettris growe, her shellis to disclose 
 
 And write vpon"* the cornel, hool outake. 
 
 Or this or that; and faire aboute hit close 
 
 In cley & swynys donge, and so repose. 
 
 And in their fruyt thy lettris wol be clere. 33^ 
 
 The nutte^ is to be sette in lanyueere. 
 
 lanyueer. 29. [fol. 41.] 
 Mo[i]st, hilly, cold, ife stony lond they loue; 
 With humour ek they lyue in tempur stedis''. 
 Ek sette hem so and thenne as seid aboue 
 Of thalmaund is. In Nouember ek nede is 340 
 
 To suwne & drie hem sumdeel. Also spede is 
 
 336 In left margin: De nuce. 337 Ms. Most, B Moist. 
 
 340 Ms. Nouembre, B Nouember. 
 
 1 h^d". 2 exudere. 3 dulcia. * nolit. 5 vel into. 6 nux. 7 locis. 
 
Book II] lanyueer. 81 
 
 In lanyueer and ffeuejyere to stepe'^ 
 
 Hem oon day, into loud er then they crepe. 
 
 Sette hem transiierse, oon side intort the groiindo, 
 
 But sette their tre to loke on thaquylone. 345 
 
 A stoon or tile vndir the roote enrounde, 
 
 That liit go not doun right a stalli alone 
 
 But sprede aboute. Ek gladder beth ther none 
 
 Then they transpl[a]unted ofte. At iij yeer olde 
 
 In hoot lond hem transplaunte, at tweyne in colde. 350 
 
 Their roote vncutte, yf^ other tren^ me cutte, 
 
 Oon plaunte in oon ox donge is doun to sette. 
 
 And askis with, the hete apart to putte 
 
 Of donge in doon, lest hit adure* and lette. 
 
 This aske in tender rynde'^ a tre wol frette, 355 
 
 As men bileeue, or fruytis densite 
 
 fforth bringe; of smal" conceyue immensite''. 
 
 In delues'' depe is sette their appetite, 
 
 Their magnitude a larger lond requyreth. 
 
 Ek to no tre their droppyng is delite, 360 
 
 Her brethron & her owne kynde hit ireth". 
 
 And in their age a mylging^" they desiretli, 
 
 Lest they therynne al hoor yberded goo; 
 
 And Chanel ,ek their tronke vnto the too. 
 
 [fol. 41a.] 
 The benefice of snnne & wynde wol harde" 365 
 
 Hem sure ynough that were yn way to dede. 
 And yf thy note is knotty or to harde^^, 
 Toslitte his rynde ille humours out to lede; 
 
 342 Ms. feueryere. 349 Ms. transplunted. 361 Ms. 
 
 bre thorn, B brere thorne. 363 Ms. Let, B Lest. 368 Ms. 
 huraouris., B humours. 
 
 1 uiacM-are. 2 pj-o quamms. 3 arbores. ^ brenne. & oortice, 
 fi creature. "^ supple dei. 8 scrobibiw. 8 irritat. lo circiimfos- 
 suram. H duroscere. 12 dpra. 
 
82 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 The rootis forto croppe, ek summen rede\ 
 
 A stake of box do thorough this bored roote'; 370 
 
 An iron nayl" or copron here is boote. 
 
 And yf thou wolt ha nuttis Tarentyne*. 
 
 ffor antis® lappa a kirnel saat in wolle", 
 
 And in thy semynary hit reclyne. 
 
 Ek chaunge a^beryng nuttre yf thou wolle^ 375 
 
 Into that kynde, as wete hit at the fullc 
 
 Tlirie euery mono a yer in lie* allone, 
 
 And Tarentyne his notis wexe vchont 
 
 And whan their huske agooth hem, they beth ripe; 
 
 Ek so they must be sette. And hem to kepc 380. 
 
 Let close hem in a barel or a pipe 
 
 Maad of their owne tre; or let hem slepe 
 
 In greet", or chaff, or oynouns yf^" they wepo, 
 
 ffor thei their bitter sour wole mortifie; 
 
 Or kepe hem in her owne leues drie. 385 
 
 And Marcial seith notes sheled ^rene, 
 
 As grene in hony putte a yere endure. 
 
 And drynke of this licour wol cure vp clene 
 
 The pipes and the gomes, as is sure 
 
 This Marcial expert vppon this cure. 390 
 
 In plumtre", in theym silf, in crabbe tre, 
 
 At lanyueer ygraffed may they be. 
 
 lanyueer. 30. [fol. 42.] 
 
 Be pomis tuberum. xvj* capitalum. 
 
 NOW tuberis in quyncis^^ me may graffe^^: 
 Now sette is pechis boon; now almaunttre 
 And plomtre wol conceyue a peches graffe^*, 395 
 
 376 Ms. wite, B wete. 377 Ms. ayer, B a yere. 
 
 1 consuluwt. 2 radicem. 3 clauis. * illius ciuitatis. T) for- 
 
 mices (sic). 6 lana. 7 velis. 8 lixiua (sic), 9 harena. lo -pro 
 
 quamuis. n pruno. 12 cidoneo. 13 inserere. w surculum. 
 
 * See Notes. 
 
Book II] lanyueer. 83 
 
 In damacene- ek graffed may hit be; 
 In precoqua, the vyne, ek men hit se. 
 Now cheritre to graffe^ and pechis wilde 
 And plomtre, er in guwme hit go with cliilde. 
 
 He signandfls ammalibns <Sb lardi & pernarum 
 (b echini & rapic on/eccione. xvij ca. 
 
 And nowe is tyme, as tellith Columelie, 400 
 
 The lam bis and the beestis more & lesse 
 To marke; and rapis make wel to smelle 
 In condyment, is now the tyme expresse. 
 Echinus erchon flsshe is, as y gesse — 
 This iish & lard & flicchis salt to kepe^ 405 
 
 In iuste confeccioim, now takith kepe^- 
 
 De oieo mirtino. xviij capitulum. 
 
 In lanus oyl confecte of mirtis bay is 
 In this maner: an vnce of foylis take, 
 A pound of oyle, and x vnce of this bayis; 
 In half* a sester aged wyn do shake, 410 
 
 And al this thing to boyle at oonys make. 
 This wyn is in this werk, lest foylis drie 
 This boylyng wolde eschewe & brenne or frie. 
 
 De vino mirtite. xix cap'itnlam. 
 
 Now mirtite wyn is maad of mirtis bayis, 
 Thre* sester bayis broke in x of wyn 415 
 
 That aged is; so steped xix dayes, 
 Wrynge out the mirte & dense hit, putte theryn" 
 A scriple of foyl, and half a scriple of fyn 
 Saffron; to this, x pound of hony swete 
 And best; this wol be plesaunt drynke & sete. 420 
 
 402 rapis make wel] in hand A over erasure. 410 Ms. 
 
 agyn, B aged. 420 In right margin: grana quater quioqiie 
 
 scn'puli pro ponders sume. 
 
 1 vel men graffe. 2 seruare. 3 attendite. * emina (sic) . 
 B h" d". 6 impone. 
 
 6* 
 
a4 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 De oleo laurino. xx capilulum. [fol. 42a.] 
 
 Of lauris bay an oyle is now confecte: 
 Take of this lauris bayis fele & grete 
 And ripe; in setliyng water hem deiecte. 
 So lete hem sethyng longe tyme swete; 
 And after that the swymmyng oyl do gcte 425 
 
 Into sumthyng, with fethers feire & clene, 
 And in sum goodly vessel hit demene. 
 
 De oleo lentiscino. xxj capitulvim. 
 
 Oyl lentescyne is maad in this manere: 
 Lentiskis greynes fele and ripe a slepe 
 Thou brynge a day and nyght to hete yfero; 430 
 Thenne hongyng in a basket, let hem wcpe, 
 But in sum honest thyng their teris kepe; 
 As oyl lauryne is lentiscyne of take, 
 Whos rigour hoot water most vnderslake^ 
 
 Be gallinaryiin psiriu & cedenda matBrie ad fabricam. xxij & xxiij ca. 
 
 Now hennys^ legge vppon*" their wynter rest; 435 
 
 Now forto. hacche are hennys sette abrood*. 
 
 Now matere is to falle in sesoun best 
 
 ffor pale, or hegge, or hous, or shippe in flood. 
 
 In old ek of this mone is this moost good. 
 
 This mone and December were oon in space 440 
 
 Of houris in myn auctours tyme & place. 
 
 De horis. xxiiij copituZum. ^ 
 
 The first hour xxix fotc' is fixe, 
 xix°^ another hour, and thries v" 
 The thridde hour is; the firthe is twies sixe^, 
 The fifthe is x, the sixthe is ix asblive; 445 
 
 The seueth^ as v, and eight as iiij" vpthrive; 
 
 441 Ms. auctoris, B auctours. 
 
 1 suwmitigare . 2 galline. s aftir. i incubare. 5 pcdra. 
 7 xij. 8 s. X. 9 s. 12. 
 
Book II] laiiyiiocr. 85 
 
 As iij^ is nyne, as ij is ten-, tlie forme" 
 Thelleuth* is with**- Let Pallady sey for me 
 Deo gracias. 
 
 And here an ende as to the gouernaunce [fol. 43.] 
 In lanyueer vppon this husbondrie. 450 
 
 Now hope y se this peised in balaunce 
 Of hym that kan best knowe yf hit mys wrie 
 In my defaut. And hym wul y supplie — 
 My bhssed lord, mene y, the due Homfrey — 
 Right as hym thynketh best, do iustifie 455 
 
 My wronge & this. And thus to Crist y sey: 
 
 Louynge honour and iubile, lesu, 
 
 To the doth yer & hour, persone & place, 
 
 Erthe, aier, fir, see, gresse, herbe, odour, vertu; 
 
 ffoil, flour, fruyt, greyn, & tre thonkyng thi grace, 460 
 
 That now fauour and liberie purchace, 
 
 As He doth hem socour. Thy Prince hym selue 
 
 ffertiUte wul now labour outtrace, 
 
 And our vtilite wul plowe & delue. 
 
 Now garth and mede odouris sprede. How white 465 
 
 And rede her flouris brede and redyuyue, 
 
 Beth graynis dede and helpe in dede ascite 
 
 At nede; and vynis spede, and tren vp blyue 
 
 As molbery, garnat, chery, tholyue 
 
 Hery peche, hard pery, and euery kynde 
 
 Of tren chery; and men mery shal thryue, 470 
 
 Heer y their Lord hery[e]. His werkis fynde. 
 
 And vnto Hym vpward their hondis holde [fol. 43a.] 
 With infynyte ympnysyng armonye; 
 His Phnce also they thonke a thousant folde. 
 Therto the bee, foul, fish, & beestis crie, 475 
 
 454 lord added above in same hand and ink. 471 Ms. 
 
 hery. 
 
 1 XV. 2 s. xix. 3 s. prima hora. * s. xi. 5 xxix. 
 
86 lanyueer. [Book II 
 
 And sayn attonys they wul fructifie; 
 ffor now shal art attende vppon nature, 
 Now lif, essence, and wit shal magnifie 
 The creatour of euery creature. 
 
 A[nd] now my lord biholdith on his book. 480 
 
 ffor sothe al nought, he gynnyth crossis make 
 
 With a plummet and y noot whow his look, 
 
 His cheer is straunge, eschaunge. Almeest y quake, 
 
 ffor ferd y shrynke away, no leue y take. 
 
 ffarwel, my Lord ! do forth for y am heer, 485 
 
 And metur muse out of this prosis blake. 
 
 And heer y wul sette on At ffeueryeer. 
 
 477 art written alove in same hand and ink. 480 Ms. 
 
 A now. 
 
III. 
 
 FEYERYEER 
 
 , ffeueryeer. 32. [fol. 44.]* 
 Ve pratis seruandia iD letamen saturandis. I capitulutn. 
 
 At ffeueryeer in places temperate 
 The medes for to kepe is to bygynne. 
 And fede hem that be lene at pooure estate 
 With donge, as Luna gynneth wexe & ■wynno 
 Vppon the nyght; ek newer, gretter wynne^ 5 
 
 Is to [the] gresse. And ley hit on the side 
 Aboue, al thorgh that luce of hit may glyde. 
 
 De pruscindendis colUhus. ij eapitulum. 
 
 At places warme, in dayes lyth & drye, 
 Is now the hilly londys vp to ere. 
 Trimenstre seed in erthe is now to strie.- '«)'<-■«. 10 
 Now wold also thy puis be sowen there »«'0 ca. 
 As thynne, & resolute, & faate hit were, 
 And namly dry. And whi? Lest luxurie 
 And humor excessif go make hit dye. 
 
 They may be sowe vntyl the mone be 15 
 
 At dayes twelue. And forto make hem grotc 
 
 6 Ms. Is to gresse, B Is to the gress^. 
 
 1 coOTmoduw. 2 semynare. 
 
 • In hand 0. 
 
88 Foveryocr. [Book III 
 
 And uppe anoon, commixt thou "most liciu see 
 
 With drie donge, & theryn lette hem svveto 
 
 Tyl daies foure. As for oon aker mete 
 
 A strik of hem, hit schal be so suffisid. 20 
 
 And chicc[h]es sowe afore as I deuysed. 
 
 J)e serendo can[n]abo. 11 cnpitulum. 
 
 Last in this mone eke hemp is to be sowe 
 In donget fatty playn, weet & depe londe; 
 A fote of sqware in, six sedis may growe. 
 Now lond, tliat medicine is fore yfonde, 25 
 
 (Wherof at sowing hem to vnderstonde 
 Y wol yow do) ye moste liit plowe eftsones; 
 Ek dilygently clodde^ hit, pyke owt stones. 
 
 At Marche Kalendes in the soile ydight [fol. 44aJ 
 
 In gardyn wise, is flores forth to sprede 30 
 
 X foote, & strecche hem 1 feet forthriglit, 
 
 ffrom eyther side al esely to wede; 
 
 And watter hit as oft as hit is nede. 
 
 This lond thus sette, old donge is hit to serue 
 
 And, greythed thus, til Auerel reserue. 35 
 
 De heruo. vij ca. De curandis mtihns <& arboribus. vij ca. 
 
 Yet in this mone is forto sowe tares 
 And not in Marche, lest they enoye thi bestis; 
 Thi oxou myght be wood therof as haris. 
 Now old vryne at tre & wyne a feest is 
 Vppon theire rote as ofte as ere hit kest is. 40 
 
 Summen suppose vryne hem schuld appcyrc, 
 But hit wol make her fruitis feele & feyre. 
 
 Oildregges fresshe is profitabul holde 
 To kest amonge, & rathest in olyue; 
 
 21 Ms. chicces sawe, B cliicches sowe. 22 liubric] Ms. 
 canabo. 28 Ms. cloddy, -B cloddo. 42 Ms. i'rutus, B 
 
 fiujlcs. 
 
Book III] Foveryeer. 89 
 
 But this a mon most do in dayes colde, 45 
 
 Er then the feruour hoot on hem aryuc. 
 
 Now barli galatik is for to thriue; 
 
 Abowten Marche Kalendes yf me sowc 
 
 Hit in cold lond, white .& saad wol hit gi'owe. 
 
 De ponendis vitibns, pastino, ve\ scrobibas, vel stilcis, 
 et omni que illuc pertinent discipMna. ix capituluni. 
 
 This mone eli al thy soyles pasty n ate 50 
 
 l^ith wynes wold be filde, whose gode na-twre 
 No lond ner air forsacth, so that their state 
 Be shaped in conuenient mesure. 
 The vyne in pleyn is sette that may endure 
 Ek myst & frost, bot sette in hilles hie 55 
 
 That wyndes mey endure & dayes drie. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 33. [fol. 45.] 
 Set in the fertil feeld smale and fecounde, 
 The sadde & beryng wynes in the lene; 
 The bowy bigge in densid erthe abounde; 
 And sonnest ripe in cloudy cold demene, 60 
 
 Or hard[e] grapid stormes to sustene. 
 The moyst in hoot, the tough in wyndy lond; 
 And wyne drie in rayn hit may not stond. 
 
 And, short to sey, se the profession 
 
 Of euery wyne & wherein they myscheue; 65 
 
 As counter hit be good discresion. 
 
 In lond plesaunt & serenous they cheue 
 
 In euery kynde, as esy is to preue. 
 
 The vynes kyndes is not for to telle. 
 
 To number hem therfore y nyl not dwelle. 70 
 
 But knowe is this that grapis feire & greete, 
 
 Pypened hard & drie, hit is to take 
 
 Vnto the bord; and tender grapes, wete 
 
 51 filde] first written felde then e deleted and i written above. 
 57 feeld] Ms. fel, B feeld. 61 Ms. hard, B hardde H Ms. 
 
 susteine, B sustene. 63 Ms. wyne (loith peculiar curl over 
 
 e) hit, B vyne it. 
 
 1 frondose. 
 
90 Eeveryeer. Book III] 
 
 That sauour best & suwnest wold asslake 
 And dwyne awey, of hem thi wynes make. 75 
 
 The places chaungeth kynde of suwme vynes. 
 Vyne Amynee hath euer feirest vines; 
 
 They changeth not, but better hoot then cold 
 
 They may abide; and after faat in lene, 
 
 But dongyng help hem, wel they wil not holde. 80 
 
 Too kyndes are of hem, a more & mene*. 
 
 This mene effloureth sone & knotteth clene 
 
 And smale, ek greyneth lite. In mene londe 
 
 Allone, & with a tre faat mo.st hit stonde. 
 
 [fol. 45 a.] 
 This smaler vine ek ha[te]th wynd & rayn. 85 
 
 The gretter of this vines Amynee 
 In blossomyng or flouryng ofte is slayn. 
 Vine Apianes prophitabul be. 
 Suffice hit for to name vp these thre. 
 A witty man taeth preued thyng, & change 90 
 
 He macth, that lond from loAd be not to strange. 
 
 Suche erthe as they come out of sette hem to 
 
 And in theire merites they wol abyde. 
 
 And vine or tre to change yf thow wolt do, 
 
 ffrom lene lond to faat thow most hem gyde; 95 
 
 ffrom faat to lene is nought, lat that craft slide. 
 
 Scions to sette owte of the middel trie, 
 
 And neither of to lough ner [of] to hie. 
 
 Take hem that gemmes- v or sixe ascende 
 
 ffro thelder branche, & if thow take hem so, 100 
 
 Withouten change hemself they wol extende; 
 
 A vine abundaunt ek thow take hem fro, 
 
 And not hem take that her a grape or too, 
 
 77 Ms. Amynes, B Amynee. 85 Ms. hath, B hateth. 
 
 97 Ms. tre, B trie. 98 Ms. ner to hie, B nor of to hie. 
 
 1 minor. 2 vel knottes. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 91 
 
 But hem that kneleth doiin for vberte — 
 
 On bough may better then another be. 105 
 
 And this a signe is of fertilite: 
 
 In places hard yf frutis multiplie, 
 
 Vch bough ek from the rote vp trailid bo 
 
 With fruit; & tlioo let marke & signifle, 
 
 The same at settyng time owt for to trie. 110 
 
 But see ther be noon old vpon the ende, 
 
 ffor hit wol rote & al corrupte & shende. 
 
 ffeueryer. 34. [fol. 46.] 
 The squorges ^ hie & graffes from the folde, 
 Though they wol growe, & scions pampinari 
 Wit fruit for fruitful let hem not be tolde; 115 
 
 ffor they from fruit to bareynesse wol vary 
 When they be sette, & then hem wolt thow wary. 
 But writhe not the bed of thy sarment 
 When hit is sette, ner do hit no torment. 
 
 And vines wold be sette in plesaunt dayes 120 
 
 And warm, vnbrende in sonnes or in wynde. 
 
 As cutte & sette, or yf they ban delayes, 
 
 So saf hem moist that thay may kepe her kynde. 
 
 "Whil spryngyng tyme endureth, haue in mynde 
 
 In placis cold, & moist, & faat, bywette I'iS 
 
 With schoures often, vines for to sette. 
 
 The syons schal be sette a cubit long; 
 
 And ther as lond is faat do sette hem wide, 
 
 And thikke in lene lond, so that among 
 
 Hem in thi pastinated lond diuyde 130 
 
 Thre foot of opon lond on euery side: 
 
 So shal thow in an acre tabu I mette 
 
 MMM & DC scions sette. 
 
 115 Ms. or, B for. 118 sarment] first written serment. 
 
 119 Ms. ner to do hit. B ner do hit. 
 
 flagilla (sic). 
 
92 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Too fote & half yf they be setto atwynne, 
 
 V*^D saue twj^es twelue 135 
 
 Sarmentes wol fiUe up the lond withynnc 
 
 An aker tabul tiled by hit selue. 
 
 And whether thow thi londis ere or deliio,, 
 
 Orthward & afterlong extende a lyne, 
 
 And put a stike in place of euery vine. 140 
 
 Then kest adoun thi scions here & there, [fol. 46a.] 
 
 And ynipe in oon in euery stikis place. 
 
 Oon maner vyn yf all thi londys here, 
 
 A wickid yer niyght cum & all difface. 
 
 Do diuers vynes sette in diuerce space 145 
 
 And wynes goode of iiij or v ha niynde, 
 
 And seuered by hem self sette euery kynd. 
 
 Thy vines old ek graffe hem tabul mele; 
 
 Hit wol be feyre, hit wol be profltabul; 
 
 Thus esily their fruites may me dele,' 150 
 
 The rathest rypyng grapes in theyr tabul, 
 
 That other may cum after as they abul. 
 
 Thus better wyn & smeller bisinesse 
 
 Shal be, as knoweth tillers expresse. 
 
 But this in pasty[ny]ng & ered lond 155 
 
 Is rewle, & not ther as be deluis made; 
 
 Sarmentes there in angles iiij stonde 
 
 And, as sey.th Columelle, hit is to glade 
 
 Hem, yf the lond be lene in euery slade, 
 
 With faat erth, yf^ me fecche hit elliswhere KiO 
 
 ffro places fer or nygh & bryng hit there. 
 
 Wyndraf^ is good aJso commyxt with donge; 
 
 But yf thow sette a plaunte or a sleuyng^, 
 
 Putte in a lytel moysty molde amonge, 
 
 But do no cley therto for eny thynge. 165 
 
 Too gemmes vppon erthe eke for to sprynge 
 
 135 Ms. thelue, B twelue. 155 Ms. pastyng, B pastynyng. 
 1 pro quamuis. ^ vinacia. 3 plantam vel malliolum. 
 
Book IIIJ Feveryeer. 93 
 
 To leue is good, the sonner wol they take.. 
 Now comth a craft arbustes' for to make. 
 
 Be arbustia id est vitibus & plantis arfionim vitiferaram. x ea. 
 
 That yf the lyst to haue a groue^ of vynis, 
 Let plauntes in thy seminar! sette. 170 
 
 But trie hem owt of hit that gentyl vine is; 
 And wlien they roote & wexe a litel grette, 
 To stonde about her tre let hem be fette. 
 The seminary is euen doluen londe 
 Too foote & half deep plauntes [in] to stondo. 175 
 In that thi scions or thy plauntes may 
 Be sette alyte asonder; gemmes'' three 
 Of scions vnder molde is sette alway, 
 And yeres too when [that] they rooted be, 
 Translate hem, be they scions, be they tre. 180 
 
 The scabby branches & the vexid rootes 
 To cutte avay for dyuerse harmys bote is. 
 Too scions in oon diche* hit is to sette 
 That neyther other touche asonder so, 
 Theyr growyng forto encumber or to lette. 185 
 
 But feyre vp by the sides let hem go. 
 The first yer fil hit not, as seyth Mago®; 
 But fille hit ful vp at the yeres ende, 
 The depper wol the roote of hem descende. 
 But this is in hoot land corauenient 190 
 
 And not in cold ther moyst wol putrifie 
 The rootes; hele. hem ther is myn entent. 
 And plauntes for to sette also thow trie; 
 Asshe, popler, elm — tho thre wol multiplie. 
 As semeth me, in euery maner lond; 195 
 
 Yet Columelle is so not understonde. 
 
 169 Rubric] Ms. v, B x. 173 fette] Ms. fate, B fette. 
 
 175 Ms. omits in, B in to stande. 179 Ms. omits tliat, B 
 
 whenne that. 
 
 1 arbnsta. 2 arbustuw. 3 vel ioyntes. * vel delue. ° s. ille 
 auctor. 
 
94 ' -Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Her plauntes in this mone hit is to sette, [fol. 47 a.] 
 
 Not fer thy vyne; and in thy feld for corn 
 
 If they be sette, a xl foote of mette 
 
 Vche elm away from other most be born. 200 
 
 So may thow sowe, & not thi seed be lorn, 
 
 In londis faate. & yf thy lond be lene, 
 
 Then sette hem not but xx foote atwene. 
 
 A scion sette hit vj feet from his tre, 
 
 Lest that the tre increce & hit oppresse. 205 
 
 ffrom bestis kept y^ith dichyng most hit be. 
 
 The vyne ek to the tre with bondes dresse. 
 
 A better Qraft is for this besinesse: 
 
 Let make a skeppe^ of twygge a foote in brede, 
 
 Andsuwzdel lesse al though hit be, no drede: 210 
 
 This bryng vnto a tre wt^/j w[ynes spradde], 
 
 And thorgh the bothom therof make a gappe, 
 
 That thorgh that gappe a scion may be ladde; 
 
 This sk[e]p vnto the tre thow bynde & happe, 
 
 And fille hit ^ith quik molde, & therin wrappe 215 
 
 This scion in the skeppe a lite ywounde 
 
 Or writhed in this lytel skeppe grounde. 
 
 Withynne a yer wel rooted wol hit be 
 
 Inwith this skeppe, vnder whos bothum sholde 
 
 Hit so be kytte & born vnto the tre 220 
 
 Ther hit schal growe; & sette hit feire in molde — 
 
 The skeppe & al, so wol hit take & holde 
 
 Withouten doute; as fele as er the lyste 
 
 Do serue hem thus & in theire growyng triste. 
 
 197 this] t added above the line. 211 wynes spradde] 
 
 In Ms. the verse ends with the w of wynes and a blank space is 
 left for the rest of the line, B vynes spredde. 214 skep] 
 
 blotted. 216 Ms. a liter intortum ywounde, B a lite ywounde 
 
 with gloss intortum above. 2J8 Ms. ayer. 220 Ms. kycte. 
 
 1 eorbiculaw. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 95 
 
 ffeueryeer. 36. [fol. 48.] 
 [De vineis prouincialibus. xj capitulum.J 
 
 Prouyntial is diuerse kynde of vynys: 225 
 
 The best is lyke a bosh ythied breef. 
 Til hit be strong, sustened first this vine is; 
 And strong, allone hit stont in his boncheef. 
 Next hit beth born vp vynes best of preef 
 Vpbounde, orbiculer & turned rounde; 230 
 
 And last is hit that straught lith on the ground. 
 
 [De putandis vineis commiinibus et humilibus. xij caj 
 
 In londis temperate & sumdel colde 
 Goode tyme is now the vynes kitt to bo, 
 And ther they multiplie many folde. 
 Tho vines that Septemtrion doth se, 235 
 
 To cutte in spryngyng tyme auyse the. 
 That other part that loketh on the sonne, 
 To cutte in heruest newe is not bygonne. 
 
 And strength alway the thegh in thi kittyng. 
 
 Too hardnes in on wyne is not to make. 240 
 
 The croked, febul, faat, & niys growing 
 
 And ek the greyne branche away thow take: 
 
 The lower branche in goodly place awake. 
 
 Let suffer that a gemme or too extende. 
 
 Thy vines to repare or forto amende. 245 
 
 In esy places hier may they trayle; 
 
 In lene or hoot, declyue or stormy stedys 
 
 Let hem be lowe. al so this wol avayl. 
 
 In places fatte of vche an arm no nede is 
 
 Of branches .mo then too; also hit spede is 25Q 
 
 To deme vppon the bygnesse of the vyne 
 
 As what wol make hit stonde & what declyne. 
 
 The vynes hie & of fecundite, [fol. 48 a.] 
 
 In branches viij ynough is to dilate. 
 
 225, 232 Ms. omits rubrics here supplied from B. 230 Ms. &, 
 B in. 
 
96 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 About his thegh^ let no thyng growyng be, 255 
 
 But if hit axe to be reuocate; 
 
 And yf the stdk be holgh or coMcauate, 
 
 Purge of the dede; oyl dregges on the woundc 
 
 Wit erth ydon, wol hele hit vp bygrounde. 
 
 And take away the torn ^ hongyng rynde, 260 
 
 The dregges wol the fewer be be grounde. 
 
 The mosse^ away do that wherere ye fynde. 
 
 And in the harde if that thow make a wounde, 
 
 Adownward suwdel lenyng most hit rounde. 
 
 The clawes" drie & scabbid, old, vnsely, 265 
 
 Kitte al away, & kepe up that is wely. 
 
 And if thy vynes footfes iiij ascende, 
 
 Then amies iiij is goode forth forto streyne. 
 
 If hit be lene, in vche an arm extende; 
 
 A branche if hit be fatte, extende vp tweync. '270 
 
 But all out of oon side yf thow hem treyne, 
 
 As thyng with leyt* forsmyton, wol they die; 
 
 For thy do way that febul husbondrye. 
 
 Vppon the harde or on the top ne leue° 
 
 Thi scions. Whi? for that is to fecounde, 275 
 
 The top with lytel fruit wol al for leue". 
 
 Amyddes wol the best scions be founde. 
 
 A lyte aboue his gemme ek make the wounde. 
 
 And turne hit from the gemme in case hit wcpe; 
 
 The turnyng may the terys vtter drepe. 280 
 
 ffeueryeer. 37. [fol. 49.] 
 l)e putacione arhusti. xiij capitulum. 
 
 The vine ysette into the tre to growe. 
 His first matier at the thridde or secounde 
 
 256 il/«. reuocate «ei renouate fcf. ffl&o«eJiI.yi6^, 2? roiiocate. 
 259 Ms. by grounde, H bygrounde. 261 Ms. begrounde, B 
 
 by grounde. 281 Rubric Ms. vij, B xiiij. 
 
 1 crus. 2 muscus. ? ungues. * fulgere. *' dimittas. 6 pani- 
 pinare. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 97 
 
 Gemme is to cutte; and euery yer alowe 
 
 Hit vp tencrece & wynes fortabounde, 
 
 Yf thow wold haue on bowis hem fecounde. 285 
 
 But fewer for to haue & gretter wynes, 
 
 Into thy trees top lede vp thy vynes. 
 
 In bigger bowis fele, in feynter fewe 
 
 Branches do traile; & cutte hem by this reson: 
 
 Tho that the grapis were vppon by rewe 290 
 
 The forme yer, now cutte hem of this seson. 
 
 The ramail from the fressher bough to leson 
 
 Is good, and euery yer hem forte vnbynde 
 
 Is confort & refresshyng to theire kynde. 
 
 And maak thi tre that euery bough extende 295 
 
 By other forth, as lyne yleyd by lyne. 
 
 An elme in faat lond viij feet may ascende, 
 
 In lene lond at vij hym reclyne. 
 
 In dewy, clowdy lond thi tre for vyne 
 
 Kit hit that est & west his bowis ronne. 300 
 
 The vynes sides bete vppon the sonne. 
 
 To thicke vppon the tre do not the vyne, 
 
 And yf on faile vprere another tre. 
 
 And make hem lough in cleuis that decline; 
 
 In playn er ronk lond, heyer may they be. 305 
 
 But bondis harde in vyne is not to se; 
 
 Do bondes softe & esy for to were 
 
 Theron, lest bondis harde hit kerue or tere. 
 
 [fol. 49 a.] 
 De putacione prouintiaUum vitium. xiiij capitulum. 
 
 Adight vine in prouyntial manere 
 That lyke a busshe vpstont, iiij armes make 310 
 
 287 top] short stroke over p. 290 Ms. that grapis, B 
 
 that the grapis. 299 dewy] j added above the line in same 
 
 hand. 300 Ms. rowne, B ronne. 802 Ms. Tho thicke, B 
 
 To thicke. 305 Ms. playner, B plaine or. 
 
&8 Feveryeer. [Book HI 
 
 And branches leue on lieni as tliey may bere. 
 The vyne orbiculer with canne or stake 
 Vp born, in comyn fourrae her cuttyng take. 
 The stra[u]ght vine on the grounde gemmes too 
 The tirst yer leef, and after mo & mo. 315 
 
 De nouelle putacione. xv capitulum. 
 
 Anouel vine, as telleth Columelle, 
 After the formest yer to oon materc 
 To fourmo is goode, & not, as other telle. 
 The secunde yer to kitte of al yfere, 
 That they or dede or pampinary were; 320 
 
 But better is to leue a gemme or too. 
 In bigger vynes rather this is do : 
 First help hem vp with canne & litel stakis, 
 And yef hem strenger, yeres after thre. 
 At yeres iiij, vp iij materes takes 325 
 
 On hem, al ronk yf that the londis be. 
 The branches ek kitte of fro vyne or tre, 
 And brere & roote, & al impediment 
 In hast is from the deluer to [ben] hent. 
 
 De propaginibus. xvi cnpitulum. 
 
 NOW husbondrie his olde vines plecheth. 330 
 
 The long endurid; old, forfreton vine 
 Is not to helpe, as Columelle techeth. 
 To delue hit vnder al, but to reclyne 
 Hit lyke a bo we and vnder lond hit myne; 
 ffor, as he seith, the cors ydolue in grounde, 335 
 The rootes wol abounde, & al confounde. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 38. [fol. 50.] 
 He seyth also that after yeres tweyne 
 This bowes in to branches wol abounde; 
 
 314 Ms. straght, B streght. 329 Ms. to hent with 
 
 space for 3 letters between the two words, B to been hent. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 99 
 
 But tillers uppon thys thyng compleyne 
 
 That, yf me cutte hem after the secunde 340 
 
 Wynter, they wol be seke, and in the groundc 
 
 Her rootis faile, & sodenly they die. 
 
 ITor graffyng now comth crafty husbondrye. 
 
 De. insitionihus xvij capitQlum. 
 
 And in this mone in places warme & glade 
 Thy graffyng good hit is to. solennize. 345 
 
 In thre maner graffinges may be made, 
 And twe[y]ne of hem is now to do the gyse; 
 In somer doon the thridde hath his deuyse: 
 Oh in the stook, oon graffeth vnder ryndc^ 
 Emplasteryng another doth in kynde. 350 
 
 Thus graffe vnder the rynde a bough or tre: 
 There cicatrice is noon but playn & clene, 
 So sawe hit that the bark vnbresed be, 
 And smothe hit after with thy knyues kene; 
 A wegge of boon or yron putte bytwene 355 
 
 The bark & tre, welnygh iij finger depe, 
 Auysily the rynde vnhurt to kepe. 
 Out with this wegge ^ in with a graffe anon 
 That oon half cutte, the pith hool, & the rinde 
 Vppon that other half; and vp to goon 360 
 
 Ouer the bed too hondbrede is his kynde. 
 With rysslies or with stren me most hem bynde. 
 And thre or iiij, as wol thy stok suffice, 
 Asondred fingers iiij, is to deuise. 
 Do cley vppon and mose hit al aboute [fol. 50a.] 365 
 And bynde hit to so that the graf[fe] stonde 
 An hondbrede vp, the messe & cley withowte. 
 And other bynd[e] hit straytly with sum bonde, 
 And in the clouen hedes for to stonde 
 
 347 Ms. twene, B tweyne. 349 Ms. graffe, B grnffctli. 
 
 366 Ms. graf, B graffe. 368 Ms. bynd, B bynde. 
 
 1 cortice. '■^ cuneo. 
 
100 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 They graffes doon on either side'yschaue 370 
 
 Sharp as a wegge, her pith so that they saue. 
 
 A uegge in hit ther most be pitte aforn, 
 
 That, hit puld out, the tre theron may clinge. 
 
 This eyther craft for spryngyng tyme is born, 
 
 And worcheth while the mone is in spryngyng, 375 
 
 When graffes gynneth swelle in burgynyng. 
 
 ffertile, & fressh, ek knotty, sprongen newe 
 
 Thy graffes be, so that estward they grewe, 
 
 The graffes be thy litel finger grette, 
 
 And forkid as with forkis oon or too 380 
 
 "With gemmes fele aboute on hem ysette. 
 
 The yonger tre, the better wol liit do. 
 
 But nigh the grounde hit most be cutte, & so 
 
 Sette in, the graffe atwixe his tre & rynde; 
 
 And, as is taught afore, is hit to bynde. 385 
 
 And other take a graf of that gretnesse 
 
 As is the stocke that they wol first deuyde. 
 
 This graf unto that wol they shape & dresse. 
 
 That bark wiiA bark acord; on either side 
 
 They cleye & bynde hit wel. But for to abydo 390 
 
 And growe, hit helpeth wel to do good lond 
 
 The stokke abowte, vntil the graffe vpstonde. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 39. [fol. 51. J 
 A diligent husbond enfourmed me 
 That doutles euery graffing wol comprende, 
 Vntempred lime'^ yf -^ith the graffes be 395 
 
 Putte in the plages ther they shal descende. 
 He seyd ereithe[r] sappe wol condescende 
 Vnto that mene, & glew hem self in fere. 
 In mariage ymyxte as though they were. 
 
 370 Ms. Thy, B thai. 372 No space between this and the 
 ■preceding stanza. 391 to] very like do. 393 Ms. be, B me. 
 397 Ms. ereithe, B her either. 398 vnto] written vn ; to added above. 
 
 1 visQum. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 101 
 
 Of emplastryng is after in his raone. 400 
 
 Ek Columelle hath told another crafte 
 
 To graffe: vnto the pith* hit is to done 
 
 A tre to bore, and se no thyng be lafte 
 
 Inwith this bore, and thenne a graffes shaft 
 
 Of vyne or tre y^ith gemmes oon or too 405 
 
 Be euen mete into that bore ydo. 
 
 With cley & niosse hit close auysily. 
 
 Thus in an elm a mon may graff a vyne. 
 
 A Spaynald taught me wonder gisily 
 
 To graffe, and baad me theron not deuyne — 410 
 
 In peches hit was preued tymes ix"^": 
 
 As for to take an arm gret withi bough 
 
 Too cubit long or more, & saad ynough; 
 
 He seyd amyddes thorgh y most hit bore^. 
 
 And ther hit growed, croppe a plaunte of peche 415 
 
 And ther vppon let slippe adoun this bore^, 
 
 That eyther hed into the lond forth reche; 
 
 Bende as a bowe or vynes that men pleche, 
 
 And cleme hit, mose hit, bynd hit soft abowte; 
 
 Qwod he, 'thus wol hit growe hit is no doute.' 420 
 
 A yer ygoon, they too wol ioyne as on; [fol. 51a.] 
 
 Then cutte away the rote vnder the bowe 
 
 And ley good erth on euery side & on; 
 
 Withouten bones fruit ther on wol growe. 
 
 In places moyst & ronk is most to trowe 425 
 
 Vppon this crafte, for wythy loueth wete 
 
 And childron on another tre to gete. 
 
 De instituendis oUuetis. xviij capitulum. 
 
 This mone in places temperate, oliue 
 In pastine or in tables brynkes sette, 
 Or in theire groundes, beth to growe & thriue. 430 
 
 412 Ms. bought, B bough. 426 Ms. ffor. 
 
 i medulla. 2 penetrare. ^ foramen. 
 
102 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 And owt of thy pastine yf they be fette, 
 
 The hed & euery bough or smal or grette 
 
 Kitte of a cubit; & an hondful longe 
 
 They most be sette, yf they schal ha no wronge. 
 
 Sliowue in a staake afore, & in do keste 435 
 
 Sum barly seed, & kitte of euery drie. 
 
 Her hedis cley & mose & bynde hem feste. 
 
 The same side vppon the sowth to wrye 
 
 As dede byforn, is holden husbondrie. 
 
 Let sette hem fest asonder thries v^, 440 
 
 Or twyes x^ as best is hem to thryue. 
 
 Plucke vp vche weed aboute; at euery rayn 
 
 Do delue vp smal the mold of euery rote, 
 
 Let mynge hit wel, & putte hit on ayein, 
 
 A[nd] more a litel herre vppon hit wrote. 445 
 
 But in his place yf thow wolt haue hym soote, 
 
 Lond myxt mth cley, or sondy cley, faat sonde, 
 
 Lond thicke & quycke, is goode in hem to stonde. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 40. [fol. 52.] 
 The potters cley, the wlonk®, or sondy lene. 
 And nakyd cley, nys nought; for though hit take, 450 
 Hit wil not cheue. Ek ther as ooke hath bene 
 Or crab[be] tre, tholiues hit forsake; 
 The rootes wol their oyl or slen or slake. 
 Northward of feruent ground, southward of colde. 
 And enter bothe, of hilly lond they wolde. 455 
 
 Her bayes namys: on is pausia. 
 Another orchas, thenne is radius, 
 Licinia, sergi, comynia,' 
 And mony mo calde otherwey then thus 
 Whos namys schal vnwreton be for vs. 460 
 
 437 Ms. mosy, B mose. 444 mynge] dot of hliut inli 
 
 over m. || Ms. ayen, B ayeine. 445 Ms. A, B And. 452 Ms. 
 crabtre, B crabbtre (of. II 39 J). 
 
 1 XV. 2 XX. 3 uliffinosa. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 103 
 
 Oyl panda whil hit is grene is best, 
 
 But sone in age hit is corrupt & lest. 
 
 Licinia her oil is best of al, 
 
 But sergia hath most in quantite. 
 
 Suffice of hem to sey in general, 465 
 
 The grettest for the bord preseruid be, 
 
 The smallest for thyn oyl ykept thow se. 
 
 Ther corn is, sette hem xl foote atwene 
 
 And XXV there as lond is lene: 
 
 And west southwest* hem for to order best is, 470 
 
 In deluys drie and footes iiij depe 
 
 Idolue; & if the place is saaf for beestis, 
 
 Vnnethe owt of the lond thow lete hem crepe; 
 
 And elles here, hem seluen for to kepe 
 
 ffrom bestis bite. And ther as wanteth stonis 475 
 
 Cley myxt with dong in settyng with hem doon is. 
 
 Ther raynes faile & lond is ouerdrie, 
 
 A[nd] nedeth to be wet & here oliue, 
 
 And plaunte is noon hem with to multiplie, 
 
 Let set in to thy semynari bliue 480 
 
 Oliues bowis vj feet long or fiue. 
 
 And V yer old, transplaunte hem in this mone 
 
 To places colde, as best it is to done. 
 
 I knowe hem that ban take olyues yonge, 
 
 (This wey is light and more vtilite) 485 
 
 In wodis or desertis vp yspronge, 
 
 Ikytte & set a cubit long to be, 
 
 And plauntis fele ban spronge of suche a tre. 
 
 But in thi seminari most they roote, 
 
 With donge & molde admixt vnto their roote. 490 
 
 473 lete] written let and e added above. 476 Ms. dam, 
 
 B doon. 477 Ms. iaynes. 478 Ms. A nedeth, B And n. 
 
 490 Ms. thi roote, B thaire r. 
 
 1 in fauoniuJM. 
 
104 Teveryeer. [Book III 
 
 De pomiferis arboribus in generaU. xix capitulum. 
 
 NOW appultreen toward Septenitrion 
 In pastine is the seson to dispose, 
 That by & by shal of be seid vchon. 
 Loond that is good for vines may be chose 
 As good for hem; but xxx footis pose 495 
 
 Vche order of from other. Crop & tayl 
 To saue in settyng hem, is thyn auail. 
 Tef euery kynde an order by hymselve, 
 Lest myghty treen the smale adoun oppresse. 
 And as thi plauntes growed, so thow delue 500 
 
 Hem up, & so to stond ayeyn hem dresse. 
 ffrom clyf to playn, from lene vnto fatnesse, 
 ffrom dried lond to moyste, is hem to bring; 
 Transplaunte hem so, & sone up wol they spring. 
 
 ffeueryere. 41. [fol. 52.] 
 The stock yf thow wolt sette, hit do to stond e 505 
 Thre foote in hegth; & plauntes for to sette 
 Tweyne in oon delue is not to take on honde 
 ffor wormys, & lest either other lette. 
 In placis drie also they most be wette. 
 Yet Columelle, he seith of seedes sowe 510 
 
 Or uottes, woll best beryng treen vpgrowe. 
 
 Se vUibns & plantis circumfodiendis. xx capitulum. 
 
 NOW by the see cost & in hoot centre 
 Thy wynys delue or er, as is to done. 
 Now stakid & vpbpunden wol they be. 
 Olyues now & other treen ychone 515 
 
 Do donge hem in decresyng of the mone; 
 The gretter- tre, the gretter quantite 
 Therof, and half so moche a lytel tre. 
 Fyrst fro the roote abate of al the molde, 
 A[nd] mynge it wel with donge and kest it on 520 
 
 498 Ms. hymself, B hymselue. 499 Ms. Left, B. Lest 501 Ms. 
 deresse, B dresse. 505 do] added above the line in same hand. 
 
 508 31s. best eicher, B lest either. 520 Ms. A mynge, JS And m. 
 
Book ni] Feveryoer. 105 
 
 Ayeyn, Ek in the semynary sholde 
 
 The plauntes now be mylged euerychon, 
 
 And braunches now superfluewt of goon; 
 
 And rootys sniale of noon vtilite 
 
 Cutte of for lettyng of fertilite. 525 
 
 Be Uliis, rosis, croco (6 vioUs setendis. xxj capitulum. 
 
 This mone is eke rosaries to make 
 With setes, or me may her sedes sowe. 
 The floure inwith the rose is not t(3 take, 
 But bayes that as lytel peres growe. 
 By broun colour & softnesse is to knowe 530 
 
 Yf they be rype. Ek now is to repare 
 Rosayres olde & drynesse of to pare. 
 Now vmbedelue hem, and yf they be rare, 
 Me may hem thyke, endusyng plauntes mo. 
 Wyth craft ek roses erly ryped are: 535 
 
 Twe[y]ne hondbrede of, abowte her rootes do 
 A deluyng make, and euerj day therto 
 Do water warm. Now lilly bulbes sowe 
 Or sette, and wede hem that of rather growe. 
 In wedyng hem thow most be diligent 540 
 
 ffor hurtyng of her bulbe or of her eye. 
 But bulbes smale vp from her moder hent 
 Let put in other lond to multiplie. 
 The violet to plaunte is now to trie. 
 Now saffron bulbes beth to sette or sowe, 545 
 
 Or subtilli to delue, yf that they growe. 
 
 De lino, xxij ea. De cannetis S aspaxagis [et] plantis salicum vel 
 geneste & seminariis mirti d: lauri. xxiij ca»'. 
 
 Now summe in soil ydonged linseed sowe ; — 
 X busshel serueth for an aker lond; 
 
 535 Ms. of roses, B eke roses. 536 Ms. Twene, B 
 
 Tweyne. 538 Ms. sowe or sette the next verse heginning with 
 
 And wede; between warm and now appears \\ in Ms.\ in B the 
 verses are arranged as in text. 539 that] Ms. ]7at. 
 
106 Peveryeer. [Book III 
 
 fful subtil flaxe & smal therof wol growe, 
 
 And also thicke & long as hit may stonde. 550 
 
 Cannetis now with craftes may be fonde: 
 
 In delues breef this Cannes eyon do, 
 
 And vche of half a fote his felow fro. 
 
 In places drie & hoot me most assigne 
 
 Hem moldes moyst; and ther as it is cold, 555 
 
 To wete is nought, to drie is nought; benign© 
 
 Is good, so that the toun water doun folde 
 
 Streght hem among. Sperages seed ek hold 
 
 Is good to sowe hem with, wii/i hem to springe, 
 
 ffor Cannes & sperage haue o.on tylynge. 560 
 
 ffeueryeer. 42. [fol. 54.] 
 Cannetes old ek tyme is now to wede, 
 And of to kytte hit that their roote vneseth. 
 And hem that rote, or crookidly procede; 
 The bareyn eyles canne also displeseth. 
 Now vilous, busshes, bromes, thyng that oseth, 565 
 Let plante. And now of mirte & laures bayis 
 To make or tyle a semynary, day is. 
 
 Be ortis et diuersis herbis. xxiiij capituluni. 
 
 And at this mones Idus is good hour 
 To make a gardyn hegge, as is byforn 
 Itaught, when the was seid [in] ficchis flour 570 
 
 The seed to kepe of brere & houndes thorn, 
 ffor heggis made of hit schal not be torn. 
 The Greke seyth of scions of fatty brere. 
 As vynes sette, an hegge a man may rere. 
 But euery day me most hit delue & wete 575 
 
 Vntil hit take. Ek letuce is now sowe. 
 In Aprile hit to plaunte in other lete. 
 Now tesul, cresse, & coriaunder growe; 
 
 553 And] dot over and under d; JS And. 570 Ms. seid 
 
 f., B gaide in f. 575 Ms. wede, B weete. 578, 579, 
 
 580 over erasure, traces of 579 and 580 appearing in 578 'and 579. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 107 
 
 Now popy seed in grounde is good to throwe; 
 
 Now saury seed in faat vndunged londe 580 
 
 Doth wel, & nygh the see best wol hit stondo. 
 
 Smale oynouns be with hit, or by hem seluo 
 
 Isowe. Ek hem in ver & in heruest 
 
 They sowe; whos seed in molde, if that mc delue 
 
 The body smal, the bed wol be grettest. 585 
 
 Bot oynons as for seed to sette is best; 
 
 The had wol dwyne away as hit wold dye, 
 
 The croppe encrese, & sedes mu[l]typlie. 
 
 Faat lond, ydonged, moyst, & well ywroght [fol. 54a.J 
 
 0[y]nons desire; in hit let beddis make, 590 
 
 Vche herbe & roote owt of hit feetly sought. 
 
 A plesaunt day & cleer to sowe in take, 
 
 And grettest wol the growyng mone hem make, 
 
 And swete ynough; the wanyng of the mone 
 
 Wol make hem smale & bitter euerychone. 595 
 
 Let hem be thyn ynough, & wede hem ofte, 
 
 And yf the lyst her hedis for to swelle, 
 
 Plucke of the foyles al aboute on loft. 
 
 So wol the iuce inwith her hedis dwelle. 
 
 And they that schal of sedes here a be'II, 600 
 
 Let rayle hem vp, and when thayre sedys blakc, 
 
 That thay rype beth of that a signe is take. 
 
 Half drie vp plucke hem, in the Sonne hem dric. 
 
 Now dile in places colde is gode to sowe; 
 
 Hit may with euery ayre vnder the skye, 605 
 
 Gladder hit is ther warmer wyndes blowe. 
 
 And watter hem, if showres be to slowe, 
 
 But wede hem selde; ek summe han this bileue. 
 
 That bare yleft ther schal no foul hit greue. 
 
 Senvy let sowe hit now, & cool seed bothe, 610 
 
 589 Ms. mutyplie, B multplie. 590 Ms. Onons, B Oynons. 
 608 Ms. biliue,J? bileve. 609 Ms. other schal, -B there shal || 
 
 w erased after no. 610 Ms. Initial omitted. 
 
108 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 And when the list; welwrought faat lond they loue, 
 
 And sondy, cleyi, grauelous they lothe. 
 
 But if hit reyned day & pyght aboue, 
 
 Ther may no wether harm hem ner remoue. 
 
 But set hem southward sonner, wol they preue; 615 
 
 Septemtrion wol make hem latter cheue, 
 
 ffeueryer. 43. [fol. 55.] 
 But the[re] they wol be grete'& sauour well. 
 The clyf they loue and faat ydongid londe, 
 And weded wel hit mot ben euery dell. 
 Ek sumdel fer asonder most they stonde. 620 
 
 To make hem hoor as frost ek craft is fonde: 
 Let grounden glas go syfte on hem aboute, 
 When theyr trefoyl or quaterfoyl is owte; 
 This wol hem make in vigour longe dweUe, 
 And for to sethe ek tender wol they be. 625 
 
 To hold hem grene, ek chargeth Columelle, 
 Ther rootes in see froth wrapped to se, 
 And therwithall of donge a quantite. 
 And sette hem grete aparti, for though longe 
 Er then they take hit be, they wol be stronge. 630 
 In wynter sette hem in a warme day, 
 In somer, when the sonne goth to reste; 
 And hele her lond the widder wol they splay. 
 Old brasik seed to rape eschaungeth feste. 
 And nygh this mones Idus ek is best 635 
 
 Sponge of sperage or new of sedis fourme, 
 Or olde as now me may sette & refourme. 
 
 Me semeth this is gode & profitabul: 
 
 Wilde asperages rotes mony trie 
 
 Inte erthe ytilde, or stony lond is abull 640 
 
 Ynough for hem; for they wol multiplie 
 
 6H Ms. faa, B fatte. 617 Ms. the they, B there thai. 
 
 619 wel hit] blotted. 629 Ms. thoght, B though. 641 Ms. 
 
 the wol, B thai wol. 
 
Book III] Teveryeer. 109 
 
 Ther as al other tre[en] & herbis deye. 
 And euery yer in scopis hem to brenne 
 And thicker, gretter, swetter, wol vp renne. 
 
 [fol. 55 a.] 
 Now malue is sowe, and myntes^ plaunte or roote^ 645 
 In places moyst or water nygh, is sowe. 
 No donged faat lond axeth they to roote^ 
 So hit be gladde. Ek fenel wol vp growe, 
 So hit be gladde, in stony lond ythrowe. 
 Pasneppes* seed or plauntes faat & rare, 650 
 
 Pastined depe, ysette in this mone are. 
 Now cunula is sowe & hath culture 
 As oynons* or garlec"; & now cerfoyl 
 After this monys j''dus do thy cure 
 To sowe in faat & moyst, ydonged soyl. 655 
 
 Now betes sowe, & synke or quaterfoyl 
 Transplaunte ; and somer thorgh hem may me sowe, 
 In faat lond, moyst & donged wol they growe. 
 The rootes wold in donge ydippid be. 
 And delue hem ofte and make hem feeste of donge. 660 
 And now thi leek ysowen is to se; 
 To make hem frough, kitte of the bladys longo 
 Eyght as they growyng beth ij raonthes yong. 
 And ryght ther in her beddis let hem dwelle. 
 Yet othowrwise enfourmeth Columelle. 665 
 
 And when ye plaunto hit, donge & water do 
 Therto; but heded yf thow hst it haue. 
 In ver let sowe, in October go to 
 And transplaunte hit; faat londis wol it craue, 
 
 642 Ms. tre with space for 3 letters between tre and &, B troen. 
 643 scopis] written schopis and then h expunged. 647 axeth 
 
 tbeyj blot covering h th. 658 Between the tioo stanzas a verse 
 
 (? 658) has been erased. 
 
 1 myntes. ^ radicem. 3 radicare. 4 pastinate (pastinaco? 
 or the gloss may belong to word beneath, as 650 is written over 
 erasure of 651). ^ oepule. 6 allium. 
 
110 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Playn, doluen depe & donged best hit saue; 670 
 
 And wede hit oft. Ek thike ysowe is frough 
 And rare ysowe is heded grete & tough. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 44. [fol. 56.] 
 A fynger gret is round ynough to sette, 
 And in the myddes cutte of euery blade. 
 The rootes ek ycutte & vmbiwette 675 
 
 With dong is good her spryngyng forto glado. 
 An bond asonder sette hem with thy spade, 
 And when they rooteth, reise hem ^ith thi hond, 
 That they suspence aparti so may stonde. 
 
 So wol they fynd a space vnder theyr roote, 680 
 
 And hede liit full. Ek forto make hem grete 
 
 Do seedes feel yfere, & they wol roote 
 
 Ifere, and in on body wol they grete. 
 
 And rape seed in to their hedes gete 
 
 Al yronles, wol make hem growe fastc; 685 
 
 And ofte ydoon the faster wyl they hasto. 
 
 The chibol now ther as cannetes growe 
 
 His eyon sowe, of cutte as is the reed; 
 
 Al softly in the doluen lond hem throwe, 
 
 And sowe hem by a lyne other a threed. 690 
 
 Thre feet to stond asonder is her speed. 
 
 The bulbes of coicases settyng sone 
 
 In londis moyst & faat, is goode this mono. 
 
 They setteth nought by thaires quahte, 
 
 And glaad beth they to stonde abowte a welle 695 
 
 That humor euer may ther butler be. 
 
 From hem yf thow defende eke coldes fellc. 
 
 In theyr groyng almest they euer dwelle. 
 
 Now comyn & anyse is faatte ysowe 
 
 In donged lond & weded wel to growe. 700 
 
 670 Ms. sQwe, B saue. 081 Ms. fall, B ful. 091 
 
 Tlire feet] over erasure. 695 Mss. awolle. 
 
Book III] Peveryeer. Ill 
 
 De diuersis arboribns in pomario. xxv eapitulum. 
 
 The pertre plaunte is sette in places colde 
 At ffeueryer, and ther as is warme ayre 
 In Nouember; and then ek good is liolde 
 To graf hem ther nioyste erthe is her goode leyr; 
 So shal the fruit be grette and floures feir. 705 
 
 They in suche erthc as vynes lone abounde; 
 ffaat lond macth myghty trcen & ryght fecoundc. 
 A stanry pere is scyd to chaunge his mete 
 In esy lond ygraffed yf he be. 
 
 Hit is hot happe of plaunte a tre to goto. , 710 
 And if thow wilt, taak of a gentil tre, 
 Not wilde at all, mthonte asperite; 
 When hit is too yer old or iii to thryue, 
 Good is to set hit as men sette olyue. 
 But set hem rotyd wel in delues wyde, 715 
 
 Thre foot or iiij in hegth & cropped feyre: 
 With cley & raosso here hedys hode & hyde. 
 Ek seedes sowen peris wol repeire; 
 Nature is suche hit is not to dispeyre 
 Latte if she be, for targyng may not be 720 
 
 ffastidiose in here eternyte. 
 But long hit is a mon ther on to dwelle. 
 Theyr noblesse ek they wol- departe fro ; 
 Therfore is better do as y wol telle: 
 In Nouember the wild[e] tre to do 725 
 
 [Be graffed, first sette and rooted to] 
 In deluys large ynough & doluen depe. 
 That rootes esyly may vnder crepe. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 45. [fol. 57.] . 
 Do graf him in hem self and they wol be 
 Tender & swete. Ek they may not endure: 730 
 
 702 Ms. feueryeer. 718 Ms. seed sowen, B seedes sowen. 
 720 Ms. Lacte. 725 Ms. wild, B wilde. 726 Ornitted in 
 
 Ms. and omission noted by cross; here supplied frOm B. 729 Ms. 
 
 and wol, B and thai wol. 
 
112 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 And if me graf hem in a nother tre 
 
 The langer -wol they last in lesse cure. 
 
 And XXX foot asonder for lesure 
 
 Is hem to sette. Bk humor is avayle 
 
 To hem, & delue hem ofte is good trauaile 735 
 
 Hit is so gode that in the blossomyng 
 
 She wil not lese a flour that forth is brought. 
 
 The deluer is to help her y^ith deluyng; 
 
 And euery otiier yer she wold be wroght 
 
 With spade, & dong is therto to be sought. 740 
 
 Ox dong aboute her roote if that me trete, 
 
 The pomes sadde & braune wil hit gete. 
 
 And summe also doth askes ynith this donge — 
 
 They seyn ther of ther wol good toste arise. 
 
 The kynd of hem to telle hit is to long, 745 
 
 Whil theyre tylyng is not in dyuerse gyse. 
 
 The pertre seek is helid in this wyse: 
 
 Let make hit bare, & bore hit throgh the rote. 
 
 And driue a pin therin wol don hit bote. 
 
 Or ellis thus: let bore hit thorgh the stook, 750 
 
 And do therin a pyn made of a bronde; 
 
 And yf the wonteth that, tak of an ook. 
 
 And wormes wol ther none in bit be fonde, 
 
 Yf ofte vppon the rootes as they stonde. 
 
 The boles galle enfusid be. & more 755 
 
 ifor blossomyng to long is herof lore. 
 
 Of wynes olde hit is to take dregges [fol. 57a.] 
 
 (The dregges most be newe) & daies thre 
 
 Infounde hem on thi trees feet and legges. 
 
 So wol the blossum parte from the tre. 760 
 
 And lapidose yf that thi peris be, 
 
 Let voyde al erth & stones from the roote. 
 
 And sift in other erth & this is boote; 
 
 734 Ms. horn, B Aem. 736 Ms, Hit is gode, B It is 1(0 
 
 goode. 769 Ms. on threes, B on thi trees. 
 
Book III] Peveryeer. 113 
 
 But wete hit ofte & longe, or this is nought. 
 
 To graffe is goode in Marche & ffeueryeer — 765 
 
 How for to graffe, afore hit most be sought 
 
 In rynde & stock for graffyng the maneer. 
 
 Ther is also graffyng in trees seer, 
 
 As melo, almaunde, & thorn, as seith Virgile, 
 
 ffoold, asshes, quynce; & punyk, cleef his stile. 770 
 
 The pertre graffe ygraffed for to be, 
 
 Br then the day be lengest oon yer olde 
 
 Most been; & er me sette hym in the tre. 
 
 The tendron & the leuys of thow folde. 
 
 But when the dayes gynneth short & colde, 775 
 
 Then graffe hem that the tender croppis bere; 
 
 And graffyng is for euery maner pere. 
 
 To make a saury per & wel smyllyng. 
 
 In dayes feyre & wanyng of the mone, 
 
 (ffrom xxij dales old wanynge 780 
 
 Til dayes viij,) wiiA honde hit is to done 
 
 That fruit be pulde, & of oon kyiido alone. 
 
 ffrom vij vnto x, from ij til v — 
 
 These houres vj owtake thi peris bliue, 
 
 ffeueryeer. 46. [fol. 58.] 
 So they be drie, & not caduke & harde, 785 
 
 And hool & sumdel grene; and then hem do 
 In sum vessel ypicchid wel; vpwarde 
 The bottom, do this vessel closid so. 
 And where a place is with a brook thorgh go, 
 Contynuelly ther hide hem in the grounde. 790 
 
 ffor peris yet another craft is fouade: 
 As for to puUe hem hard of flessh & skyn, 
 And hepe hem vp. But when they gynneth softe, 
 Let take an erthon potte & putte hem in, 
 And picche hit fast, & cley hit wel oloft, 795 
 
 767 In right margin : 38 b &c. in hand A. 770 punyk] 
 
 written in hand A. 793 Ms. kepe, B hoep. 
 
Il4 Peveryeer. [Book lU 
 
 And delue hit vnder molde inwith thy crofte 
 Ther as the sonne al day vppon hit schine. 
 And suwime in whete or chaf wol hem reclyne, 
 
 And other take hem tough, and faste enclose 
 
 Heua in a potte ypicchid or wi^A cley 800 
 
 Ystopped fast, & in the sond dispose 
 
 Hit in the sonne; and other men wil ley 
 
 Her peris tough in hony so that they 
 
 Ne towche not. Bk peris men deuyde, 
 
 And pike awey the greyne of euery side, 805 
 
 And pyked so, in sonnes hem they drie. 
 
 On boileth water salt, & scometh clene; 
 
 Ther into cold his peris wol he trie, 
 
 Then inte a pieced potte he wol hem glene; 
 
 Or salt water on day & nyght hem leue, 810 
 
 Then fresh water too dales on hem stepe. 
 
 In bragot thenne, or wyne, or meth, hem kepe. 
 
 Of peris wyne is maade, if they be grounde [fol. 58 a.] 
 
 And thorgh a rare saak -with fors ywronge. 
 
 Yet somer wol hit soure, & so confounde, 815 
 
 And wynter wol endure & kepe hit longe. 
 
 Of peres sowre & wild hit is no wronge 
 
 Aycel to brynge, al ripe yf that they be 
 
 Ytake & kepte vphepid dales thre; 
 
 Then in a vessel se that they be do, 820 
 
 And water with of rayn or of the well; 
 
 Then hele hit feire, or se that hit be so. 
 
 And XXX dayes therin let hem dwelle; 
 
 Now aisel taake vnto thyn vse, or selle. 
 
 But se what quantite therof thow take, 825 
 
 With water up the summe ayeyn thow make. 
 
 And make liquamen castimoniall 
 
 Of peres thus: take peres right mature, 
 
 801 dispose] in hand A over erasure of word beginning with •^. 
 
Book Ill'i JTeveryeef. ll & 
 
 And with hool salt hem trede, & flesshe & all; 
 
 When they beth resolute, in stondis pure 830 
 
 Or erthen pottes picched saaf & seure; 
 
 And after monethes iij do hem suspende, 
 
 And righ[t] goode licour of hem wol desccnde. 
 
 His tast is goode & whitysshe his colour; 
 
 ffor that, when salt & hit is doon yfeer, 835 
 
 A blackysh wyn aommyxt hit doth socour. 
 
 And in the mone of Marche & ffeueryetr 
 
 The meles graffed beth, but there as clere 
 
 Is aier, & hoot, & drie, hit may be do 
 
 In October & Nouember also. 840 
 
 ffeueryeer. 47. [fol. 59.]. 
 Her kyndes forto write y wol not waste, 
 ffaat lond they loue & moiste [in] his nature. 
 In cloy or in grauell men moston haste 
 To wattre hem ofte. In hillis is to cure 
 To sette hem on the south, yf they schal vre. 845 
 They growe also in places colde yf theyer 
 Be somdel warme & helpyng to their layer. 
 
 Also they growe in places harde & wete. 
 
 And wormy wol they be in drie & lene. 
 
 And hem to graffe as peris me may trete. 850 
 
 The plough or spade aboute hem be not sene, 
 
 ffor thi the bette in medes may they bene. 
 
 And donge although they noon or litel craue, 
 
 Yet gladly wol they take & gladly haue; 
 
 And namly askis medlid ther ^ith all. 855 
 
 They loueth ek to dwell in region 
 
 Ther as the hete is neither gret ny small. 
 
 Ek they beth apte vnto putacion 
 
 Of bowes drye, or foule elacion. 
 
 This tre is olde anoon, & in his age 860 
 
 He goth out of his kynde into datage. 
 
 833 Ms. righ, B right; 842 Ms. omits in, B moiste in. 
 
lie Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Caduce if that the fruit be, cleef the root 
 
 And putte in hit a ston & hit wol dwelle. 
 
 ffor rotyng of the crop the galle is boote 
 
 To towche hem yfith of neutes grene. Ek quelle 865 
 
 Her wormes thus: taak swynes donge, & melle 
 
 Hit with vryne of man or oxes galle, 
 
 And meles wormes this wol sleen hem alle. 
 
 Yf wormes fele vppon hem be wi^Aowte [fol. 59a.] 
 
 A scrape of braas let scrape hem of therwith, 870 
 
 And cleme uppon the wounde^ oxdong aboute. 
 
 And ouer thicke yf that the fruytes beth, 
 
 Plucke of the febul fruit, as reson seth, 
 
 Hem to discharge, and luce ek then wol dresse 
 
 Hit into theym that ar of gentilesse. 875 
 
 In pertre^, thorn ^ in plomme* & apultre, 
 
 In seme* & peche", in plane' & populer^, 
 
 In wilous may this melis graffid be. 
 
 But trie hem wel that schal be kept ore yeer; 
 
 Let ley hem derk as wynd may not com neer, 880 
 
 And do feir stre vppon their fleyke ® hem vnder, 
 
 On heepes feire a htel space asonder. 
 
 This heppes most me now & now deuide, 
 
 Yet beth there diuerse folk seyn diuerse wise. 
 
 And oon in picchid pottes wol hem hide, 885 
 
 Another hath of cley another gise, 
 
 Yet hath the thridde of hem a fressh deuise — 
 
 Only the lyteF" feet to cleme in cley, 
 
 And on a floor with chaf bistrowed ley. 
 
 And ther vppon they couer hem ^ith stre. 890 
 
 The meles round, ycald orbiculer, 
 
 "Withowton care a yer may keped be. 
 
 891 ycald] a made out of o hy adding loop to top and tag to 
 bottom. The same in B. 892 Ms. ayer, B a yere. 
 
 1 vulniis. 2 piro. 3 spino. ^ pruno. B sorbe (sie). 6 persico. 
 "^ platano. 8 populo. 9 create (sie). lo pediculos. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 117 
 
 And other drenche hem in the water cleer 
 
 Of cisterne or of wynche, yclosid neer 
 
 In erthen pottes picched at the fulle. 895 
 
 And other meles wol with hondes pulle, 
 
 ffeueryeer. 48. [fol. 60.] 
 And dippe her litel feet in picche al warme, 
 And so in ordre ley hem on a tabull; 
 And nuttre leuis vnder wol not harme. 
 Ek populer or fir is profitabull 900 
 
 To make & lye among hem scobes abull; 
 And let her petifeet dounward be wende, 
 And touche hem not vntil they schal be spende. 
 
 Aysel & wyne of meles me may make 
 
 As is aboue enfourmed of the pere. 905 
 
 To graffe a quynce is diuers tyrae ytake. 
 
 Their plauntes y ha seyn in ytail here, 
 
 The cite nygh, ysette in ffeueryeer, 
 
 Or in the frount of Marche, in donged molde 
 
 So that they rooted were & ryght wel holde; 910 
 
 Holde ban they so that in the yeer secounde 
 
 ffruit ban they hadde. Yf that me sette hem grete, 
 
 In thende of October th[e]y wol abounde, 
 
 Or sone in Nouember yf that me trete 
 
 Hem into place of drinesse & of bete. 915 
 
 But ther as dry hit is they most be wette; 
 
 They loue in cold & moyst eke to be sette. 
 
 They here anoon in places temperate. 
 
 And forth they come in cleues & in playnes; 
 
 They loueth lond deuexe & inclinate. 920 
 
 Men graffeth of theyr toppes & their treynes; 
 
 That werk or seelde auaile or sone yslayn ys. 
 
 And wide hem so that, though the winde him shake, 
 
 No drope of oon vntil another take. 
 
 897 Folio numbered 38. 913 Ms. thy, S thai. 9J9 Mi, 
 
 in p. a noon, B anoon in p. 
 
118 Teveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Yf they be sette smale, helpe hem -^ith donge ; [fol. 60 a.] 
 
 Yf they be grete, askes & chalk do to. 
 
 And ones serue hem thus in al yer long. 
 
 Eterne humor wol grete hem, & also 
 
 Hit wol them rype sone; & yf ther no 
 
 Reyn be, me most hem wete & vmbidelue. 930 
 
 This doon, let God therwith alone Hymselue. 
 
 At Marche or ffeueryeer in londis colde, 
 
 At October & Nouember in hete, 
 
 But they be dolue abowten as they wolde. 
 
 Other me shal of hem no fruytes gete, 935 
 
 Or owt of kynd. Also this y yow hete — 
 
 I preuyd haue ykytte yf that they be, 
 
 They wol been owt of vice in liberte. 
 
 Thy tre is seek, oyldregges water mynge, 
 
 Ylyche of eyther, held hit to the roote; 940 
 
 Or let quyk lyme with chalk resoluyng synge, 
 
 Or reseyn mixt wii/i taar that is to soote, 
 
 Ennoynte abowte of this, for this dooth boote; 
 
 Or maak the rootes baare, and ley arowte 
 
 Of quynces to, to go the roote abowte. 945 
 
 Do this from yeer to yeer, & they beth saaffe 
 
 ffrom vice. Ek ther ayeyn they nyl not dure. 
 
 In ffeueryeer this quyncos is to graffe; 
 
 The rynde as in the stook is not so seure. 
 
 Hem in to graffe. And graffyng is tassure 950 
 
 In hem of euery fruit — punyk & serue, 
 
 And apultren ek best for hem they serue. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 49. [fol. 61.J 
 Theyre yong[e] treen, ther iuce^ is, [in] the rynde^ 
 Is good to graffe; and olde yf that they be, 
 
 942 soote] ot altered from et. 947 Ms. the rayeyn, li 
 
 ther ayeine. 948 Ms. feueryeer. 949 Ms. to, B so. 
 
 953 Ms. yong, B yonge. || Ms. is the r., B is in the r. 
 
 1 sucous. 2 cortice. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 119 
 
 To graffe hem at the roote hit is her liynde, 955 
 
 Ther as the soyi as well the bark as tre 
 
 Hath beneficed with hunaydite. 
 
 Hem rype ypold, men kepe in diuers wise; 
 
 And first of tiles ^ tweyne is oon deuyse: 
 
 Do hem bytwene & cleye hit euery side. 960 
 
 Or in defrute^ or passe* sethe hem feire. 
 
 The grettest wol another owt deuide, 
 
 And in figtrees leues mony a peire* 
 
 He wol do folde of hem, so nyl they peire^. 
 
 Another wol in places drie enclude 965 
 
 Hem, & the wynde & ayres both exclude. 
 
 He wol with yiier or with reed deuyde® 
 
 Hem vppon iiij, & take away the core, 
 
 And inte a potful hony let hem slide; 
 
 He doth hem hool in hony, lesse & more, 970 
 
 But rype ynough beth best this kepyng fore. 
 
 And suwime in mylde, and summe ychaued depe'. 
 
 And summe in swete [wynes] wol hem kepe. 
 
 On with his muste hem closeth in the tonne; 
 
 Another seith that in a panne al newe 975 
 
 Do hem with dried cley, & they beth wonne. 
 
 Now & in Nouember is to renewe 
 
 The siliqua^ in plaunte & seedes trewe. 
 
 Hit loueth places nygh the sees side. 
 
 And places harde & drie, eke feldes wide. 980 
 
 Expere am y that they [in] places war me [fol. 61 a.] 
 
 Wol best abounde, ywattred yf they be. 
 
 In Ms. 964 follows 965 and the displacement is corrected 
 hy a written before 964 mid b, before 965, in red ink, in hand A. 
 973 Ms. omits wynes, -B wynes. Ms. omits in, B in. 
 
 1 tegulis. 2 Glossed in left margin: defructu id est sapa 
 mustum decoctum ad cowsumpoionem duaruHi partium et iicitur iri- 
 plicatuTO. 3 Glossed in right margin: passuni secundum ysoderum 
 quicqjtam ex uva passa expi'essum est et decoctum. i paria, 
 5 perire. 6 canna. '^ paleata. 8 a maner tre, 
 
120 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Their palmes for to sette, hit doth noon harme, 
 
 But dehies largo ynough for hem thow see. 
 
 Now graffe hem in the plouM^me & almauntre. 985 
 
 This fruit is longe ykept withowten drede, 
 
 In fleykes feire yf that men liste hem sprede. 
 
 Molbery tre wol growe vp of his seed, 
 
 But bough & fruit wol turne owt of his kynde. 
 
 The croppe or talions to graffe is speed, 990 
 
 But talions the better me shal fynde 
 
 On either half maad smoth, vnhurt the rynde, 
 
 As is a graff, and vmbygon with donge; 
 
 And se that they been vchon oon foot longe. 
 
 To sette hem first maak redy place, & whenne 995 
 
 Me setteth hem, mynge askes with the molde; 
 
 An bond breed in the lond be hid & thenne 
 
 Say 'God saue all'. In Marche & now they wolde 
 
 Be graffed here; and ferther fro the colde, 
 
 In thende of October, or in [the] toppe 1000 
 
 Of Nouember, in lond is hem to stoppe. 
 
 Hit loueth places bote & ful of sonde, 
 
 And nygh the see, not stony lond ny cley; 
 
 Vnnethe in hit they take a foot to stonde. 
 
 Miche humor doth hem wo, but glad be they 1005 
 
 With deluyng ofte & dongyng, soth to sey. 
 
 And after yeres iij, the drosse & drie 
 
 Do kitte hit of, and they wil multiplie. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 50. [fol. 62.] 
 In October or Nouember let sette 
 The plauntes bigge; and tender if they be, 1010 
 
 This ffeueryeer and Marche is for hem bette. 
 Their deluis depe & rowme asonder se, 
 
 985 ploumme] thsre is an erasure ietween u and m of 
 what seems to have been a t. 1000 Ms. omits the, B in the 
 
 toppe loith gloss iuicio. 1011 Ms. feueryeer. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 121 
 
 That schades strecche not fro tre to tre. 
 Ek, as me seith, they wol be feire & bringe 
 Vp fruit ynough by connyng of boringe. 1015 
 
 Let bore hem thorgh the body ther & here, 
 And putte in euery hole a wegge or pyn, 
 A birchen^ here, a terebynten there; 
 And when Kalende of October comth yn, 
 Maak bare his rootys right vnto the .skyn.^ 1020 
 
 Old wines dregges fresshe on hem infounde. 
 And they wol be the fressher & fecounde. 
 In figtre, in hem self, vnder the rynde 
 Me may hem graffe; and in an elm they take; 
 But in this elme they greteth owl of kynde. 1025 
 
 A walnuttre', theyr nuttes now wol make; 
 Too finger depe in erthe is hem to slake. 
 Experte am y their plauntes best to growe, 
 But set hem now, ek now theyre nuttes* sowe. 
 Weet cold & lenesse, sondy lond is best 1030 
 
 ffor hem, and they beth ripe at lules nonys^- 
 Now curneles" of mixe hit is to keste 
 In molde in sum vessell, so fele attonys 
 As wel may spire; and when their spir up goon is, 
 Warm aier, niolsh lond, & humor moderate — 1035 
 Let plaunte hem ther, and vp goth theyr estate. 
 
 [fol. 62 a.] 
 Hem may me graffe at Marche in thorn & serve. 
 Ek tuberes now sawe & graffe; and now 
 The bones hard of mastik tre wol serue 
 Ysowe. Eke hem to plaunte & graffe is prow. 1040 
 The meddeler to graffe ek tol[d] is how. 
 
 1015 i in boringe dotted in later ink. 1026 Left margin: 
 
 vel chasteyntre. 1037 Ms. sorbe, B serve. 1041 Ms. 
 
 medlar, S meddeler. || Ms. tol, B tolde. (Opposite this line in B 
 is the marginal reference 38 b. o. d.) 
 
 1 lentisci. 2 cortice. 3 auelanam. 4 nuces. B nonas. 6 nucleos. 
 
122 Peveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Now plummes bones sowe & figges are 
 
 In tempur lond ysette aparty rare. 
 
 Now serbe is sette, almaunde in lond is sowe, 
 
 Ek rathe in tempor lend, late in chyllinge; 1045 
 
 Men graffe him now, theire graffus budde vngrowe. 
 
 And now pistace hath plauntyng or grafting, 
 
 Chastene also; luglande in lond now sprynge; 
 
 Ek graffe hyni now. Now for pynapultre 
 
 The cold or wettish lond most sowen be. 1050 
 
 Be educacione poreorum. xxvj capitulum. 
 
 Now bores gladly brymmeth. Chese a boor 
 Gret bodied, side & wide, ek ratlier rounde 
 Then longe, ek hiped grete & wombed hoor 
 And huge, ysnowted shorte, his necke abounde 
 With tattes fele, his stones grete & sounde. 1055 
 
 And from oon yeer vntil he cum at five, 
 He wol do well ynough and often wive. 
 The sowes is to chese of lengest side; 
 In other thynges take her lyke a boor, 
 So they be wombed wel, dependaunt side, 1060 
 
 That lycly is for greet & myghty stoor. 
 The herid blake, in colde contre the hoor. 
 And euery hugh to haue in places warme 
 Is indistincly good, & may not harme. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 51. [fol. 63.] 
 The femal shal til seuen yer suffiice 1065 
 
 To bere, and oon yer old sche wil conceyue. 
 And, nionthes iiij ydoon, hit is their gyse 
 To pigge, & in this poynt they nil deseyue. 
 These if me spende, or mynt for hem reseyue. 
 The sonner wol they brymrae ayen & brynge 1070 
 fforth pigges moo. Now herbis for hem spring. 
 
 1045 rathe] first written rather then r erased. 1057 Ms. 
 
 yngugh. 1070 Ms. souder, B sonner. 1071 Ms. herkis, 
 
 B erbes. 
 
Book III] Feveryeer. 123 
 
 A mon may haue liem wel ia euery lond, 
 
 But bette in niyri feeldes then in drye, 
 
 And most ther fructif[y]ing wodes stonde, 
 
 Wlierof sum fruit wol targe & sum wol hie. 1075 
 
 Elf lond is good ther herbes multipHe, 
 
 The rootes ek of reed and rish thei ete. 
 
 When wynter sleth their fedyng, yef hem meete; 
 
 Mast, chasteyn, yef hem pugges of thi corn; 
 
 Hem that beth meiche in ver novelles grene 1080 
 
 Beth nought to fede. Her cotes make byforn 
 
 Vnder sum porche & parte hem so bitwene, 
 
 That euery sty a moder wol sustene, 
 
 That with lier wombe her pigges doth from colde; 
 
 But make hit that me may on hem beholde. 1085 
 
 Thi swon may se their noumbor & up saue 
 
 Thoppressed pigge. & viij wol Columelle 
 
 A sowe vpbryng; y sey vj is to haue 
 
 Ynough, and that is ouer, spende or selle. 
 
 ffele y ha seyn their dammes feynt or quelle. 1090 
 
 Thi vines, swyn wol delue after vyndage 
 
 As diligent as deluers for their wage. 
 
 Be vino mirtite xxvij capitulura- [fol. 63 a.] 
 
 Sone in this mone ek mirtite is to make. 
 Six sester old wyn do to mirtes bajns 
 V pound, & hem to geder al to shake, 1095 
 
 And shake hem dayly xxij dayes; 
 A skep of palm thenne after to surtray is 
 This wyn. V pound of fyn hony therto 
 Ystamped wel let mynge, and hit is do. 
 Be vite tiriake. xxviij capitulum. 
 
 Vyn tiriake is also now to make — 1100 
 
 What good doth hit? His wyn, aisel, or grape, 
 
 1073 myri feeldes] written rayrrfeeldes and 2nd. r changed to i. 
 1074 Ms. fructifing, B fructifying. 1092 diligent] second i 
 
 written above. 1093 Ms. SSone. 
 
124 Feveryeer. [Book III 
 
 Or rinde of his scions, yf that me take, 
 
 The bite of euery best me shal escape — 
 
 And suche a craft to make hit is no iape; 
 
 Thre finger deep the scions most be slitte 1105 
 
 In thende, & pike owt al the pith of hitte; 
 
 In stede of that fille hit with fyn tiriake; 
 
 To bynde hit feire agayn be diligent. 
 
 And sette hit. God saue alll Yet other take 
 
 Her scions fild with this medicament, 1110 
 
 And hem to sette, as for this same entent, 
 
 ^''che of hem do they in a bulbe of squille, 
 
 And, sette in this maner, they doth not ille. 
 
 Tiriake is halde of summe on vines rootes, 
 
 And doth ful well. A scion of hem take 1115 
 
 And sette, hath not that myght — therin no boote is. 
 
 As in the moder was, vntil me make 
 
 Hit right as sche was maad. Also tiriake 
 
 Ys good to take and, whanne this vines old, 
 
 Heeld on theyr rootes ofte, & they wol holde. 1120 
 
 ffeueJ7eer. 52. [fol. 64.] 
 [De uva sine grants, xxix capitulum.] 
 
 Vngreyned grape in high iocundite 
 Me may suppe of, as saunz impediment 
 And al on wyn. This Greek auctorite 
 So macth to craft nature a succedent: 
 That schal be sette is taken the sarment; 1125 
 
 As moche as shal stond in the lond they cleue, 
 And clone away the pith of hit they screue; 
 And diligent they shaue hem euery side, 
 And ioyne ayeyn the legges so departed. 
 And bynd hem so that they may not deuyde; 1130 
 Wit papir best & leest ar they coarted. 
 Now soft in lond wel moyst they most be darted; 
 
 1119 Whanne added above in hand A. 1121 Rubric 
 
 omitted. 1127 Ms. the, JS they. 
 
Book III] Teveryeer. 125' 
 
 Summe ek hem sette inweth a bulbe of squille, 
 
 That macth vch sette, they seyn, to take at wille. 
 
 And other, in the vines kitting seson, 1135 
 
 Wol trie out high sarmentes fertilest, 
 
 And cleue hem not, but vse another reson: 
 
 Vntil a reed for turnyng bounden fast, 
 
 They boreth out the pith, and in is kest 
 
 This opium Quirinaik (the Greek 1140 
 
 So nameth hit, so doth myn auctor eek) — 
 
 In water first this opium relent, 
 
 Of sape vntil hit ha similitude; 
 
 Vntil the bodde owt spiyng of this sarment, 
 
 Vche eyghteth day this thyng they eft include. 1145 
 
 The pomgernad wol not this craft exclude, 
 
 As Grekes seyn. The same in cherytrc 
 
 Yf hit wol serue, assayed may hit be. 
 
 De vite nimis lacrimosa. xzx capituliim. [fol. 64 a.] 
 
 Of vines that forwepe & turne away 
 ffrom fruit, the Greekes wol the stok to tere\ 1150 
 And make a wounde; & yet if they withnay 
 Her fruit, the fattest roote away they tere^. 
 Oyldregges salt, til half decocte, on there, 
 Thorgh cold, is don, & al abowte his wounde; 
 And aisel kene is vnderkest in ground. 1155 
 
 De miHite contectio. xxxj capitulum. 
 
 Mirtite a Greek comaundeth thus to make: 
 The mirtes bales rype & shadow drie-''. 
 And stamped, vnces viij hit is to take, 
 And honge hem in thy wyn wessel ywrie 
 Al cloos, & long in hit let hem defie; 1160 
 
 Then taak hem owt & spende of hit. Also 
 With bales rype ypuld thus other do: 
 
 1139 h erased before is. 1149 Ms. Off (ff majuscule). 
 
 1151 yet] e added above the line. 1155 Rubric] Ms. confectj'a. 
 
 1 lacerant. 2 trahunt. 3 umbra siccatas. 
 
126 Peveryeer. [Book III 
 
 They plucke of driest place in dayes drie 
 
 And trade or presse hem feir; of that they do 
 
 Viij cotuls in a stene^ of wynes trie. 1165 
 
 This wyne al medicine is take vnto; 
 
 Ther stip[t]ik stont, eiecting blood, & wo 
 
 Of wombe, or of stomak, this wol decline. 
 
 Dissenterik hath eke this medicine. 
 
 Be coudito vel absinthio vel rosato vel violato. xxxij ca«'. 
 
 Absinthiate, rosate, or violate^, 1170 
 
 To make a wyne, is craft don to natwre. 
 Sarmentes of sum gcntil vine ytake, 
 And pocion forsayd in sum mesure 
 Half ful be don, quik erthe among vndure" 
 As ly is made; & when they ginneth spryngc, 1175 
 Set hem as other vynes & up |brynge. 
 
 ffeueryeer. 53. [fol. 65.]* 
 Vt vitis varios fit pvoducens botnones. cam. xxxiij. 
 That vines here ek clostres^ white & blake. 
 Take scions white & blake, & slitte hem so 
 Their eion'' thorgh that partyng thow may make; 
 And whit half eye his blak half eye vnto 1180 
 
 lust close, in papir streyn, in moyst lond do 
 Hem softe, and watter euery ferth[e] day. 
 Til they breke owt — what harm is forte assay? 
 
 De horis. xxxiiij ca."'. 
 
 nyjouember mone & this haue on mesure 
 
 JA Of houres; first is footes thries ix") 1185 
 
 Next xvij, and xiij after vre; 
 
 1165 Marginal gloss partly cut off in binding; missing 
 portions here supplied from B: [cort]ula t'owtinet [ciajtos Ires. 
 1167 Ms. stipik, B stiptik. 1177 Rubric in hand A. 1178 Ms. 
 That s. 1180 Whit added above in hand A; the caret calling 
 
 attention to the correction is written over erased w. 1182 Ms. 
 
 ferth. 1183 Bight margin: vnde Ouydius: sed quid temptare 
 
 nocebit? [Met, I, 397). 1184 Bubric] After ca., iiij in hand A. 
 
 1 amphora. 2 violatum. 3 resolue. * botros. B oculos. 6 xxvij. 
 * This folio is wanting in B. 
 
-Book III] f everyeer. 127 
 
 X foot at iiij, and ix at v assigne, 
 
 And vj at vij feet; now length owr lyne 
 
 Ayeyn from hour to hour & sette xj, 
 
 As was the first, at twies x and vij^ 1190 
 
 Lo heer this ffeueryeer, a bisy mone, 
 
 Is brought, & not wii/j nought vnnethe, anende; 
 
 Go reste — or make is beste, or what to done. 
 
 Nay first is not the wirst to recomende 
 
 This part, vntil hit art, that list to spende 1195 
 
 Labour of fyn fauour hit to correcte, 
 
 Now shal my wrong & al, y hope, amende, 
 
 And stonde hym vnderhonde al saf protecte. 
 
 Iesu, in whom is al vertu and grace, [fol. (i5a.] 
 Al right & lawe, al myght and gouernaunce, 1200 
 Our mynde, & word, & werk, vpbyndo & brace 
 In The, that we ne be Thy displesaunce. 
 And so Crist Iesu do me fro myschaunce. 
 As heer in this matier noo wordis spllle; 
 Thynk y yit mys, hit is of my greuaunce, 1205 
 
 Turbaunce, and ignoraunce, & not my wille. 
 
 Good hope is reste, and al yit shal amende — 
 
 Theron y treste. And al this longe yeer 
 
 Of husbondrie in hast y thynke anende. 
 
 The forme book is doon, and lanyueer, 1210 
 
 And lo my lord in honde hath ffeueryeer; 
 
 Wul he correcte? By what haue y to done? 
 
 He wul doon as a lord. Thenne aftir heer, 
 
 Asfaste y thynke on sette. At Marchis mone. 
 
 XXVIJ. 
 
ly. 
 
 MAROHE. 
 
 Marche. 54 [fol. 66.]* 
 Ue putandis mneis, inserandis & pangendis. Primum capitulum. 
 
 At Marches mone, in contrey that is colde, 
 Putacioun hath his solempnite — 
 At large of hit in ffeueryeer is tolde. 
 Suspect vntil ther genimes^ gynne be, 
 Now is hit tyme hem graffed forto se, 5 
 
 ffor now this vines, whoso takith kepe, 
 Not wattery but thicke humoures wepe. 
 The trunkes sadde, in humor that abouiide, 
 Vnolde, vnrende, ygraffed let hem be 
 With graffes sadde, ygemmed thicke & rounde; 10 
 Thre eyen is ynowgli for oon to se. 
 Too fynger long let sloute away the tre. 
 But saue vppon that other half the rynde. 
 Men sayn the pith to bare^ is not ther kynde; 
 But flesh to flesh & skyn to skyn is do. 15 
 
 Eight to the trunke is sette his honest eye^, 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 lines. 4 Bight margin: 36; per 
 
 tolum & 37; a, b, c, d. 8 No space between this and the 
 
 preceding stanza. 12 slouto] s over erasure in hand A. 
 
 1 boddes. 2 nudare. 3 oculus. 
 
 • In hand D. 
 
Book IV] Marohe. 129 
 
 But sette hym that he loke away therfro, 
 
 And softe a saly twigge aboute hym plie; 
 
 Thanne vppon that with chaued cley hit wrie^ 
 
 ffor sunne & wynde hem make a tegument, 20 
 
 Lest they in this ^ be shake, in that^ to brent. 
 
 Whan tyme is hoot, putte on hem softe at eue 
 Good water oft, that they may ete & drinke. 
 And bolde hem vppon hoot, that myght hem greue. 
 "Whan that their eyen gynneth forto vnwynke*, 25 
 And they to braunche, into the lend let synke 
 A reed* right by, and bynde in manage 
 Hem to, lest wynde offende her tender age. 
 
 Yit most hit be dissolued ere amonge [fol. 66a.] 
 
 Out of thise bandis, lest it adolent 30 
 
 Be letted to encrece and wexe stronge. 
 
 And he^ to delue aboute is diligent. 
 
 And nygh the roote ingraffeth his sarment, 
 
 And mold anoon on euery side hit hepith. 
 
 This roote & molde as nors' & moder kepeth. 35 
 
 Another seith ther grafting nigh the grounde 
 
 Is best, ther esili they comprehende 
 
 And preue. Ek al the craft hit wole confounde 
 
 To graffe in hem that ouer high ascende. 
 
 Til equinox* ther settyng is not spende 40 
 
 In forgh^ in delf^", in pastyne", as bifore 
 
 Is in this book, of vines taught the lore. 
 
 N 
 
 Be pratis purgandis. Secundum capitulum. 
 
 ow hit is tyme in placis that beth colde. 
 The medes forto dense, & hem to kepe. 
 
 35 Bight margin: singMl'a singwlis. 42 Bight margin: 
 
 33; f, g, b, 34; c, d. 
 
 1 operias. 2 s. vento. 3 sole. * aperire. cannam. 
 6 aliquis '' nutrix. ^ equinoxiam. 9 sulco. 10 sorobe. H pastina. 
 
 "9 
 
130 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 In places warme ek now is liolsum holde, 45 
 
 The londes fatte & hilles vndercrepe 
 
 As with the plough; but ere hem not to depe. 
 
 Bernetes^ that beth niaad in lanyueer, 
 
 Good tyme hit is for to repete hem heer. 
 
 De panico S milio serendo. iij capitulum. 
 
 Panyk^ & mylde^ in hoot & drie is sowe 50 
 
 As now. Light resolute lond they desire; 
 Sond they forsake, in grauel wole thei growe 
 But moist bothe erthe & ayer they ther require; 
 Lond argillose* or drie hem sleth for ire. 
 And wede hem wel, let no weed in hem stond. 55 
 V sester shal suffice an aker lond. 
 
 Marche. 55. [fol. 67. J 
 De cieere serendo. Quartum capitulum. 
 
 Ereither chiche'^ is sowen in this mone 
 Ther ayer is moist & lond is ronke; & stepe 
 Hit dayes tweyne, & vp hit creepit[h] soone; 
 Thre busshel for an aker lond let kepe. 60 
 
 The Greek seith, yf luk' water hem biwope, 
 They wole be grete. And nygh the see to growe 
 They loue; and first is ripe in heruest sowe. 
 
 De canabo, de cicera. v cap"' S vj cap'^. 
 
 Til equynoxe is hemp ysowe as now 
 What lond is best for hit, & sedes geson^ 65 
 To sowe, in ffeueryeor is reson how. 
 Now cicera the blake is sowe in seson; 
 On erthes" tweyne or oon sowe hem as peson — 
 With iiij or iij busshel other with tweyne 
 Of hem, an aker lond me may byspreyne.^" 70 
 
 56 Left margin: sextarium continet sex libras. 59 Ms. 
 
 creepit, B crepeth. 66 Bight margin: 32. d. 
 
 1 berneta, 2 panicuM. ^ milium. * cleyi. ^ cicer. 6 maccj-a. 
 7 tepida, 8 rara. 9 aracionibus . 1° g. seminare. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 131 
 
 ^De nouellis pulueiandis, vitibus fodiendis etc. vij c". 
 
 NOW puluerised beth this vines yonge, 
 And so forth til Kalendis euermore 
 Of October, to sle the wedes spronge, 
 And lest the lond thi vynes ouersore 
 Constreyne. Ek wedes rotes vp be tore. 75 
 
 Now vynes is to delue in places colde, 
 And stakes make & bynde hem vp to holde. 
 And swethe^ a tender vyne in bondes softe, 
 ffor bond to hard wol holde it in distresse. 
 A sadder vyne a bigger stake olofte^ 80 
 
 Mot holde; a lighter vyne is with a lesse 
 Stakyng vpholde. And why? ffor heuynesse 
 Of shade; ek sette hem of tort" Aquylone, 
 An hond or half a foote is good to done. 
 Ek summe* her aged vynes wole repare, [fol. 67a.] 85 
 And trunke hem of al hie abouen grounde; 
 Vnconnyngly they do right as they are — 
 The Sonne & dew gooth doun into ther wouwde 
 That is so wide, and rotyng hit confounde. 
 A better way for hem y wole declare: 90 
 
 Ablaquyate hem depe & make hem bare. 
 Alite ouer the knotte inwith the lond 
 Hem kitte & wrie, and saue hem so fro drede 
 Of colde or hoot; but depe yf that hit stonde, 
 And gentil be, do this. Or thus y rede 95 
 
 Yow do: with gentil graffes hem to fede. 
 Al this in places hoot first in this mone, 
 In places coold is after Idas done. 
 And vmbidelue^ a drie or seckel" vyne, 
 Putte aske of ook or vyne aysel araonge, 100 
 
 And poure vpon the roote, & olde vryne. 
 
 83 Right margin: sincopa. 88 Ms. goith, B goothe. 
 
 91 Bight margin: Bflexigesis. 
 
 1 liga. 2 sursum. 3 versus. * aliqui. 5 circumfodias. 6 egram. 
 
 9* 
 
132 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Or graffe hem lowe, & donging make hem stronge. 
 On vynes hurt do goot or shepis donge, 
 And plaster hit with molde; ek in the roote 
 Eelented dong yputte on, doth hit boote. 105 
 
 De oleis amurca sanandis, seminarijs et rosarijs. viij ca"'. 
 
 Olyues now that owt of helthes dwelle 
 Oyldregges salt effunde vppon the roote; 
 ffor grettest treen, as telletli Columelle, 
 Vj congeus or iiij of hit ymmote^ 
 Too basket ful of bene chaf dooth boote, 110 
 
 As other seyn, to grettest treen; and olde 
 Vryne on hem to keste is wel with holde. 
 
 Marche. 56. [fol. 68.] 
 A morter faste is maad aboute the tre. 
 The rootes hidde, and mest in places drie. 
 And bareyn yf thin oliaster be, 115 
 
 Take bowes tweyne of treen that fructifie, 
 (But southward of the tre this bowes trie) 
 And streyne hem thorgh the tre by bores too. 
 And kitte hem by; do chaued cley therto. 
 Or dreve in elm, or ook, or ellis stones, 120 
 
 And plaster hem. To fatte yf that they be, 
 A stake anoon into his rootis doon is. 
 Now comes weded efte is good to se, 
 Yf hit be thuse^. And in frigidite. 
 Of seed and bayes make the semynary. 125 
 
 Soone in this mone ek make vp thi rosary. 
 
 De carduo. ix capitulum. 
 
 The gardeyn now to tile is best bygynne. 
 The tasul^ now in donged lond is sowe 
 And resolute. In faat best vp they wynne. 
 
 104 Ms. piastre, B plaister. 106 Rubric] Ms. rasariis. 
 
 109 Left margin: Congius cowtinet vj sextaria; sextariuw, sex 
 libras. 127 Rubric] Ms. cardiroo. 
 
 1 mmoueas. 2 usus. 3 carduus. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 133 
 
 The molde^ & other suche as diggeth lowe 130 
 
 Anoy hem not, in hard lond yf they growe. 
 To sowe hem in the wexing of the mone, 
 And half a foote asonder, is to done. 
 
 The tasul seed ynuerse is not to sette, 
 
 Lest croked, feynt, & hard of hit ascende; 135 
 
 Sette hem not depe — oonly iij fyngris mette 
 
 On hem, vnto the ioynt in .lond descende, 
 
 And hele^ hem light. Ek weede hem ofte anende 
 
 Vntil the plaunte vp gete, & bigly sprynge; 
 
 And yeue hem in the hete a watteringe. 140 
 
 Breke of the seedes toppe, and they wol be [fol. 68a.] 
 
 Withoute thorn. Her seed yf me reclyne 
 
 In baume, or narde, or opi" daies thre, 
 
 Or luce of rose, other in masticyne, 
 
 Or madifie hit so in oil lauryne, 145 
 
 Let drie hem, sowe hem, vp by oon assent 
 
 They wol, and haue odour like her vnguent. 
 
 And yeerly from the codde awey let take 
 
 The plaimtes, lest their moder feynted be. 
 
 In other place a boord* of hem let make; 150 
 
 But sumdel of the roote on hem thou se. 
 
 And hem that shal of seedes puruey thee, 
 
 Pulle euery blacke away that thou may fynde, 
 
 And wrie hem with a shelle other a rynde, 
 
 For Sonne or rayn the seed is wont to sle. 155 
 
 ffor moldywarpes^ cattes" is to kepe 
 
 To ligge in wayte to touche hem v/ith her cle'. 
 
 A weseP tame han suwimen ther they crepe 
 
 Hem forto take. Another sumdel depe 
 
 Hath caues maad, and they, for ferd of sonne 160 
 
 On hem let in, anoon away beth ronne. 
 
 1 talpa. 2 opefias. ^ opio. * vel a bedde. ^ talpis. • oatos. 
 7 ungula. 8 mustelam. 
 
134 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Her holes oon wel fiUeth vp with wilde 
 
 Cucumber^ luce, and doth withal rubrike- 
 
 A green ^ another hath for hem ytilde; 
 
 To take hem therwithal is not vnlike. 165 
 
 Garlec**, cunel*, ek oynouns* & vlpike*, 
 
 Now sette in places colde. Senuey' and dile*, 
 
 Ek wortes now to sowe is grettest skile. 
 
 Marche. 57. [fol. 69.] 
 Now holyhocke is sowe & armorace, 
 Or arborace that wilde raues' are, 170 
 
 And origon now plaunte hyin in his place; 
 Now lekes^", betes", letuce^^, & capare^^ 
 Sauri^*, colcase", & cresses^*; nonian spare 
 This goldes outher raues forto sowe; 
 And blesse hit, treste in God that al shal growe. 175 
 Now melon" seed too foote atwene is sette 
 In places wel ywrought or pastynate; 
 But dales thre this seed is good bewette 
 In mylk or meth^*; and after desiccate 
 Sette hem, they wol be swete. Ek odorate 180 
 
 To make hem, kepe hem long in leues drie 
 Of roses; hem they wol odorifle. 
 Cvcumber^^ in this mone is sowen rare, 
 Her forgh^" a foote of depth, iij foote of brede; 
 And enter^^ forgh & forgh, viij footes spare 185 
 
 Of leyes^^, that theryn they forth may sprede. 
 The weed wol help hem, therof is no drede. 
 Their seed in owes mylko^^ & meth to swelle^*, 
 Wol make hem whyte & therof taste & smelle. 
 
 183 Initial G such as is used for the first word of a new 
 chapter, hut embracing only one verse. 
 
 1 cucumens. 2 laqueum. 3 allium. * cunula. B cepule. 6 ul- 
 picus. ■? sinapi. 8 anetuw. 9 rafani. lo porrum. H betas. 12 lac- 
 tucam. 13 caparum. i* saturagia, IB colcasia. M narstucium. 
 1'' melonuwj. 18 mulso. 19 cucumer. 20 sulcus. 21 inter. 22 cruduw. 
 23 ouillo lacte. 24 g. macej-aciowe. 
 
Book IV] Marolie. 135 
 
 They wol be long & tender yf me sette 190 
 
 A flatt^ vessel with water too hond depe 
 
 Vnder their seed; therof vp wol be fette 
 
 By rootes, and in length awey they crepe. 
 
 Withouten seed^ who liketh hem to kepe, 
 
 With oil Sabyne enoynte her seed and bray 195 
 
 Culex, an herbe, and hem therin confray.'^ 
 
 Cucumber flour of summen into a reed, [fol. 69a.] 
 
 Ythrollid euery knotte, is softe ydo; 
 
 The floures stalkes heed withal is heed 
 
 Theryn, and passing long his fruyt wol go. 200 
 
 It is so ferd of oiles, that therfro 
 
 Hit hoketh, yf me sette hit nygh thervnder; 
 
 And turne hit wole for fere, yf that hit thonder. 
 
 Cucumber flour ek growing in his vyne 
 
 Into sum erthen potte yf that me lede, 205 
 
 Maad like a man, or best fers or benygne, 
 
 The fruyt wol haue benygnite or drede 
 
 As man or best, as hath the potte in dede. 
 
 Gorgilianus Marcial doth telle 
 
 Al this, and this of hem seith Columelle. 210 
 
 In glaad lond donged yf we ha the brere* 
 
 Or ferule*, after heruest, whan oon with 
 
 The nyght is day, let cutte hem of right nere 
 
 The grounde; and with a prick of tre the pith 
 
 Pike out, and make hem holgh, ek do in sith 215 
 
 Donge & cucumber seed; therof wol the 
 
 ffruyt that withseid" may not in coldes be. 
 
 Sperage is sowe aboute April Kalende 
 
 In redes' smale, ymaad by lyne, in wete 
 
 209 Ms. Macia], B Marcial. 211 Ms. weha. 212 Le/t 
 margin: fferula similis est aneto, aed minor et levissima nodosa, 
 quam senes pro bacwlo ferunt. 
 
 1 vel brood. 2 ^el core. ^ vel confricant, * rubos. B feriila, 
 6 denegare, '^ fossulis, 
 
136 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 And fat lond, so that seedes too descende 220 
 
 In half a foote, or thre theryn thou lete; 
 And sprede on hit aboue of donge a shete. 
 And weede hem wel, or keste vppon hem stre 
 Til prime ver; ther may hit take [of] be. 
 
 Marche. 58. [fol. 70.] 
 Therof sperage after iij yeer wole sprynge. 225 
 
 This tyme is longe — a shorter wey ther is 
 These herbes of her sponges vp to bringe, 
 ffor thei wol fructifie anoon. And this 
 Is crafte of making sponges & not mys: 
 Do seed as moche as iij fyngres wol holde 230 
 
 In euery hole of fatte & donged molde^. 
 This seedis wol connect intil oon roote^, 
 This calle^ a sponge. Ek this hath tariynge; 
 The semynair in, too yeer most hit roote* 
 Ynorished with donge & oft wedynge. 235 
 
 ffrom heruest equynoxe is his plauntynge 
 And ek in ver. But it is lesse vice 
 To beye hem, than so longe in lond cherice. 
 In solghes® sette hem, myddel depe in drie 
 Lond and in weet lond in the summyte^ 240 
 
 Aboue. Humour wol make hem multiplie, 
 So that hit passe & not abydyng be. 
 The first sperage of brokon is to se; 
 Their sponge, yf that me pulde hem, myght remewe; 
 But after, hem to pulle, is not teschewe. 245 
 
 The eyen' of their germynacioun 
 With pullyng wol disclose after the ferme' 
 Yer, and to breke hem occupacioun 
 That tyme is nought; for thy sette hit to ferme^, 
 
 224 Ms. take be, B take of be. 232 Ms. wel, B wol. 
 
 239 Ms. solugheS, B solghes. 240 lond] begins with minuscule 
 
 after space left for majuscule. 
 
 1 terre. 2 'oel radicem. 3 vel clepe. * radicare. 5 sulcis. 
 6 sujnmitate. 7 oculos. 8 primum. 9 ad firmara. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 137 
 
 Places fecounde hem seluen closeth- ferme^ 250 
 
 By brekyng so. In ver is their seruynge. 
 Eeserue in heruest hem that seed shal brynge. 
 
 Now rue is sowe in lond that is plesaunt^. [fol. 70a.] 
 
 Sprynge aske on hem & content they abide ; 
 
 And places hie is their desir to haunt, 255 
 
 Ther humour may aw ey ward from hem slide. 
 
 Seed yf me sette ek that their leues hide 
 
 Enclosed, frote hem by & by with bond; 
 
 And smale yf seedis be, sprynge hem in lond, 
 
 And ouerwrie hem after with a rake. 260 
 
 The caules that of seed encluse vp wynde 
 Wol bigger be, but latter they awake. 
 Their bowes puld with parcell of the rynde 
 In ver, better than plauntes shaltow fynde. 
 Transplaunte al hool the plaunte, & it is slaye^ 265 
 And other* benes bowes al to braye^. 
 
 And theryn or in scalons^ forth they sette 
 
 Her seed. And best for hem is solute londe. 
 
 They seyn ek stolon seed is but the bette. 
 
 In figtre shadow gladdest wol hit stonde. 270 
 
 Ne delue' awey the weed, but pull with honde. 
 
 fful ferd is hit for touching of vnclene 
 
 Wymmen — and slottes y suppose hit mene. 
 
 Til October from thyngresse* of this mone, 
 
 Is coriaunder sowe in fatty lond; 275 
 
 And thelder seed the better wol hit done. 
 
 In lene soil also they wol vp stonde. 
 
 They were ek glaad good humour whan thei fonde. 
 
 With euyri kynde of wortes wol they growe. 
 
 This gourdes" in this mone also beth sowe; 280 
 
 271 Ms. Nedelue, B Ne delue. 
 
 1 firme. 2 aprico. 3 occiditMr. * s. qMi'dam. 5 contundunt. 
 6 vel buUes {B bulbes). '' neffodias. 8 ingressu. 9 cucurbita. 
 
138 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Marche. 59. [fol. 71.] 
 Faat soil they loue, ydonged, molsh/ humyde. 
 In gourdes^ this is goodly: that the longe 
 Gourdes growe of the necke seed, and wide 
 Gourdes vp of the botteme'' seed beth spronge, 
 And grete out of the wombe seedes, honge 285 
 
 Inverse her seed. To this entent let sowe, 
 And helpe hem vp with rayles, as they growe. 
 Gourdes for seed til wynter honge stille; 
 Hem thanne in sonne or smoke hit is to drie, 
 And ellis wol they rote, and that were ille. 290 
 
 Ech erthe ywrought, now blite wol multiplie, 
 And weede hit not, hit self wol weedes strie; 
 That though thee liste, yf hit be ones spronge. 
 Thou shalt hit not destroye in worldes longe. 
 Now peletur* to plaunte is and to sowe; 295 
 
 But in his age hit wol be bowed fayer. 
 By ponde^ or lake or wynche yf that hit growe 
 So by the brynke. Anyes" in gladsum ayer. 
 And comyn' sowe hem now, ther is their leyer, 
 And helpe hem wel with humour & dongynge. 300 
 Now comth the craft pomgarnat vp to brynge. 
 
 Be malo punico. x eapitulum. 
 
 In Aprile and in Marche in tempur londe, 
 Pomgarnatre is sette; in hoot and drie, 
 In Nouember. This tre loueth to stonde 
 In chalky,^ lenysh lond to multipHe; 305 
 
 To stonde in faat lond wol hit not denye. 
 Good ek for hit beth regiones hoote. 
 ffor settyng, plaunte is best puld from the roote. 
 In dyuers wise although hit may be sette, [fol. 71a.] 
 To sette is best a bough a cubit longe, 310 
 
 solutam. 2 cucurbitas. 3 fundi. * sappillum (sic). 
 11. 6 aniscum (sic). 7 cummin (? ciminun for ciminum). 
 
 1 
 
 5 pissinam 
 8 cretoso. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 139 
 
 Clenliche ycutto vche eende, an hafte grette^; 
 
 And sette hit in the delf so lenyng wronge.^ 
 
 But first ereither ende in hogges donge 
 
 Ywounden^ be. Or with a mal, in londe 
 
 That softe is, smyte hem in, & let hem stonde. 315 
 
 The bough to sette is best in germynynge. 
 
 To putte eke in the roote of hem iij stonys, 
 
 Is craft to kepe her fruytes from cleuynge. 
 
 But hem to sette enuersed nought to done is. 
 
 To watter hem ek now & now eftsoonys* 320 
 
 "Wole make hem soure. In londes that beth drie 
 
 They wol be swete ynough & multiplie. 
 
 Tit watter hem yf ouer drie hit be, 
 
 In heruest & in ver hem vmbidelue. 
 
 If they be soure, ek stampe a quantite 325 
 
 Of laseris with wyne, hem too hemselue, 
 
 And helde hit in the croppe. Or vnderdelue 
 
 The rootes, & dryue in a firbronnd* pyn; 
 
 Other, so doluen, kesteth seefroth" yn. 
 
 Summen therwith doth asse & swynes donge. 330 
 
 And yf the flour holde not vppon the tre, 
 
 With water mynge vryne observed longe; 
 
 Tiieir roote on this oon yeer do tymes thro — 
 
 Oon stene at oon tyme is good quantite. 
 
 Oildregges' ek is good, outher seefroth,* 335 
 
 And twye a monyth keste on hem this broth. 
 
 Marche 60. [fol. 72.] 
 Or thus: the flouryng tre, the trunke in leed 
 Enclude; or in an edder skyn hit wynde." 
 And yf they chappe" [a] stoon vnder the heed 
 Roote is to do. To sowe ek squylle is kynde 340 
 
 326 Marginal gloss to laseris: opium qmraniik: (?) dieitur. 
 339 Ms. omits a, B a stoon. 
 
 1 manubrie rrassitudine. 2 oblique. 3 oblinatur. * assidui 
 I. 6 algam. ^ amurcam. 8 alga. 9 inuolue. lo crepentiw. 
 
 ■ assidue. 
 B tede. 6 algam. 
 
140 Marche. [Book I"V 
 
 On euery side. Bk hem do writhe or wyiide\ 
 In togh^ vppon their tre right as they honge, 
 And incorrupt they wol been al yeer longe. 
 
 For wormes bathe her roote in oxes galle, 
 
 And doute hit not, anoon they wol be deede. 345 
 
 Or with a.brasen pyn of scrape hem alle, 
 
 And hard hit is if they therafter brede; 
 
 Or asse vryne & swynes thost let fede 
 
 Hem therwithal, and they wole deye or fle. 
 
 Now se ther craft for hem meruel to se. 350 
 
 Kest lie & aske ofte on the trunks aboute, 
 
 And they wol be right glad & fructifie. 
 
 Ek Marcial affermeth out of doute 
 
 That greynes white in hem this craft wol die'': ' 
 
 To cley & chalk the firthe part intrie 355 
 
 Of gipse, and do the rootes to iij yer, 
 
 And this wol make her greynes whyte & cleer. 
 
 To make hem of a myrous magnitude 
 
 Ley doun an erthen pott biside her tre; 
 
 Oon bough theryn with oon flour let enclude, 360 
 
 But to a stake ybounden most hit be; 
 
 ffor lepyng out, this potte ycouerd se. 
 
 By heruest wol thy pot this appul fiUe. 
 
 Yf this be soth, the craft is not ful ille. 
 
 With luce of portulake & titymalle [fol. 72 a.] 365 
 
 Euenly myxt, er than the budde out sprynge, 
 
 Enoynte the trunkes of thys trees alle, 
 
 And many foold of fruyt vp wol they brynge. 
 
 In bowes of hitself is his graffynge. 
 
 343 incorrupt] t written above in hand A. 85 1 aske] 
 
 first written askes then final s erased. 355 part] some letter 
 
 erased after t. 358 a added above between of and myrous in hand A. 
 
 1 torquere. 2 in tenacibiw. 3 colorare.. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 141 
 
 Deuyde hem that pith^ be fro pith seioynt^; 370 
 
 In thende of Marche their graffyng is in poynt. 
 The fresshest graffe is in the stoli to do 
 In hast, lest tariyng his humour drie, 
 That nys but smal. To kepe hem long also, 
 Let picche her pedifeet", & lionge hem hie; 375 
 
 Or plucked hool into see water trie 
 Hem feire; or into oildregges hoot hem depe; 
 In this or that iij dales let hem stepe, 
 And after drie hem in the sonne, anyghtys* 
 Leue hem not throute'^, and thenne in places colde 380 
 Let honge hem vp. To vse hem thus to dight is: 
 In water fresh ij dales be they wolde; 
 They wol be fresh & fyne, heron be bolde. 
 Or ley hem feire in chaf that neron other 
 Touche, and ther they beth saaf ynough, my brother. 385 
 Or make a diche in long, and take a rynde 
 As longe as hit; in that the storte" do 
 Of pomgarnat bifore & not bihynde; 
 Thenne turne hit on this diche, euersed so 
 • That they may honge & no lond come hem to. 390 
 This rynde hem wol from al humour defende. 
 Other hem drie in cley,. & so suspende. 
 
 Marche. 61. [fol. 73.] 
 Ek whelue a serioP therout* that haue 
 Grauel vp to the myddes; pomes take. 
 The tenes* with, to stonde in Cannes saue, 395 
 
 Or holgh ellerstickes is good to make. 
 And fyngres iiij vp from the grauel stake 
 Hem so. Ek good it is to kepe hem longe*", 
 That stalkis be not left on hem to longe". 
 
 395 stonde] d altered from t. 
 
 1 medulla. 2 seiuwcta. 3 pedicMlos. * nootu. 5 gub diuo. 
 6 surculos. '^ seriolam. 8 gub dius (sic). '^ tenacibus. 10 diu. 
 11 longe. 
 
142 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Or in a serioF half water fild, 400 
 
 So licour touche hem not, let hem suspende, 
 
 And close hit fast, in wynde lest they be spild. 
 
 Or let a tonne of barly hem comprende 
 
 Vchon from other; close hit til thou spende. 
 
 Thus kepeth men this fruyt in dyuers wise. 405 
 
 And wyn to make of hem this is the gise: 
 
 The graynes ripe, ypurged fresh & clene, 
 
 Putte in a poche^ of palme, and mth the wrynge 
 
 Let presse hem; boyle hem half awey by dene. 
 
 When they beth cold, in picched vessellynge 410 
 
 And cleyed, close hem vp. But that boylinge 
 
 Of summe is leest; six sester with a pounde 
 
 Of hony meddel they, & saue hit sound e. 
 
 In Marche is citurtre' sette sondry wise — 
 
 In seed, in bough, in braunches, & in claue.* 415 
 
 They loue lond that rare is and diuise, 
 
 Ek after hete & rayn they eucr craue. 
 
 But greynes sowe, & thus thou shalt hem haue: 
 
 Lond doluen too foot deep, with askes mynge, 
 
 And bedde hit smal for wedyng & wattrynge. 420 
 
 [fol. 73 a.] 
 To make a delf with bond an hanful longe 
 And, doun the poynt, iij greynes theryn do; 
 Weete hem dayly, soone vp they wol be spronge, 
 Sonnest yf luke water be kest therto. 
 And herbes next the braunches wede hem fro. 425 
 Her tyme of transpJauntyng is iij yeer age. 
 A bough yf that thou sette a foote hym gage — 
 No lenger, lest hit rote.^ And of the claue 
 Is best an handful greet in crassitude; 
 
 408 Small a added between in and pocho in same hand. 
 412 Bight margin: ypallage. 
 
 1 seriola. 2 flscella. 8 citri arbor. * claua id est ramo 
 manubrij magnitudine. 5 putrescat. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 143 
 
 Ereyther ende ysmothecF is to haue, 430 
 
 And cubital let make her longitude. 
 
 The prickes^ kitte awey & thynges rude, 
 
 But saue the gemmes in the summyte, 
 
 That hope of futur germynyng may be. 
 
 And diligenter folk in oxen donge 435 
 
 Encludeth ereyther extremyte; 
 
 With seefroth^ other haue hem vmbiyonge,'' 
 
 Another list ycleyed hem to se. 
 
 The braunches smaller, shorter most they be. 
 
 In lyk maner [ek] drenche hit as a claue, 440 
 
 But hondes tweyne is long ynough to haue. 
 
 The claue ysette axeth no spaces large; 
 
 Hoot, ronke, & weet he loueth, nygh the see. 
 
 Though treen vphold hym not, he gith no charge. 
 
 In contre colde ytild yf they shal be, 445 
 
 Men, most hem hie enclose as forto the. 
 
 Or sette hem south. Ek in the wynter seson, 
 
 Couert of stre their coldes most appeson. 
 
 Marche. 62. [fol. 74.]* 
 When somer comth, vn clothe hem, they beth sure. 
 Ek braunche and claue, in londis feruentest 450 
 
 At heruest forto sette as do thy cure; 
 At luyl and Aust in londis chillyngest.'* 
 And dayly make hem dronken; hardiest, 
 I am" expert, so be they forto grete' 
 In magnytude, & brynge in pomys grete.^ 455 
 
 The gourde" is good this citur^° nygh to sowe, 
 Whos vynes brent maath askes for hem sete. 
 And deluyng ofte ennoyeth hem to growe 
 
 440 Ms. omits ek (cross in left margin), B eke drenche. 
 
 1 levigatum. 2 aculeis. 3 alga. * cjVcumdederunt. B frigi- 
 dissimis. "^ Inter^ositio. '^ grandescere. ^ magna. 9 cucurbita. 
 10 citro. 
 
 * In hand B. 
 
144 Marohe. [Book IV 
 
 And to prouyde of pomys goode and grete. 
 
 But heer & ther the drie awey surtrete. 460 
 
 Hoot lend Aprile, and cold in May is kynde 
 
 To graffe hem lowe, in trunke & not in rynde. 
 
 In pere^ graffe hem and molbery^ tre: 
 
 Oon in an erthen pott the graffis deeth. 
 
 Ek Marcyal affermeth that ther be 465 
 
 Of hem in Assiry that neuer beeth 
 
 Witliouten fruyt. (Best witnesse is that seetli^) 
 
 Y saugh, he seith, inwith my territori 
 
 In Sardyne, (o thing wel worthi inemori) 
 
 Ther liumour is, ek erth & ayer wel warme, 470 
 
 That fruyt to fruyt fro gre to gre succedith, 
 
 That children yonge her eldren aftir harme*, 
 
 The grene aftir the riper fruyt procedith, 
 
 The flouris sewe as fruytis grene hem ledith. 
 
 Thus maketh they, of their fertilitie 475 
 
 Helpyng nature, a fair eternytie. 
 
 [fol. 74a.] 
 Thay seyn their bitter margh^ wol chaunge swcte, 
 Her seed in meth" iij dayes yf me stepe; 
 Other in ewis mylk' as longe hem wete. 
 In ffeueryeer summen ek bore hem depe 480 
 
 Into the trunke vpward; humour to wepe 
 Out suffre they, vntil the fruyt be fourmed; 
 The myddil to swetnesse is thus confourmed. 
 Nygh al the yeer men kepe hit on the tre. 
 They kepe hit bette in cloos vessel ydone. 485 
 
 With leuy bowis puld ek let hem be 
 By nyght, and vridir cloude yhid the mone. 
 And pryueily disposed vp vchone. 
 
 476 Erasure of a letter after a. 
 
 1 piro. 2 nioro. 3 interpositio. * omiilantur. » medulla. 
 6 mulso. 7 ovillo lacto. 
 
Book IV] Marche.' Ub 
 
 Suwime ek cleie vche of hem in his vessel, 
 
 And in a, place of derknesse kepe hem wel. 490 
 
 Hem smnme in cedur scohe/ & summe in stre 
 
 Mynute, and summe in smal chaf,wel witholde. 
 
 Now meddellers^ in hoot lond gladdest be, 
 
 So hit be moyst; they come also in colde 
 
 Lond, sondy fatnes rathest yf hit holde; 495 
 
 With stonys mixt hit stont in argillous 
 
 Lond, and with grauel mixt in glareous. 
 
 In Nouember & Marche her braunchis* sette* 
 
 In donged lond, subact, ereither ende 
 
 In donge ydoon. Their increment to fette 500 
 
 Is fer, and vmbideluyng wol hem mende. 
 
 Kittyng they loue and lite humour to spende 
 
 Ofte in the drought. The seed also is sowe, 
 
 But hope is long on hit er fruytis growe. 
 
 Marche. 63. [fol. 75.] 
 A pyn of bras the wormes of to dryue, 505 
 
 Or oildregges^, or .mannys olde vryne, 
 Or quyk lyme — lite of that, lest hit vnthryue — 
 Or kest on watir of decoct lupyne; 
 ffor bareynnes yet men from that declyne. 
 Mynge aske" of vyne & donge, & hem infounde 510 
 Vnto the roote and they wol be fecounde. 
 
 Aysel and askis' tempred with rubrike^ 
 
 Ykest on hem sleeth doun this auntis" alle. 
 
 Out of the roote a pece^" it is to pike, 
 
 Yf that [the] fruyt myslike & from hem falle; 515 
 
 This pece amydde his trunke hit is to malle^^ 
 
 And in hymsylf graffe Jiym in ffeueryere, 
 
 In mele also; ek graffe hym in the pere. 
 
 516 Ms. omits the, B the fruyte. 
 
 I seobe. 2 mespilus. 8 taleas. ^ sere. 5 amurca. ^ cineres. 
 'i cineres. ^ I'ubrica. 9 formicas. lo frustrum. H percutere. 
 
 10 
 
146 Marohe. [Book IV 
 
 The graffe is to be taak amydde his tre, 
 
 The toppis vicious are often sene. 520 
 
 In trunkis clouen graffed must they be, 
 
 Not in the ryndis — they beth fastyng lene. 
 
 To kepe, ypuld not melowy^ but grene 
 
 Wold be. Longe on the tre they wol endure; 
 
 Ek they in picchid pottis kept ar sure. 525 
 
 Suspence in rewle, hem kepe with pusk condite, , 
 
 Ypuld in myddis of a day serene, 
 
 Or in smal chaf asonder hem alite. 
 
 Semymature also me may hem glene,^ 
 
 And dayes y in salt watir hem lene;^ 530 
 
 Infounde hem thenne vntil they swymme, & depe 
 
 In bony this fruyt ripe ynough thou kepe. 
 
 The fig* to plaunte in hoot lond best is holde [fol. 75a.] 
 
 In Nouember; and ther is tempur londe, 
 
 In ffeueryeer; and ther as lond is colde, . 535 
 
 In Marche or in Aprile hit do to stonde. 
 
 A toppe* of hit to sette other a wonde^ i 
 
 Is holden best right in Aprilis ende, 
 
 When grene & luce vppon hem doth ascende. 
 
 The pl-auntys sette is stonys to sustene, 540 
 
 And donged lond vpon the rootys spende. 
 
 And cannys knottys pike out hem by dene; 
 
 The tender croppe for cold herwith defende 
 
 In placis cold.. A top', iij braunched thende, 
 
 Of ij yeer age or iij, toward the Sonne 545 
 
 Icutte & sette, as here is taught, is wonne. 
 
 The greyne inwith the grounde is so to stonde 
 
 That graffes iij on erthe abouen goon; 
 
 526 Bight margin: Pusca est vineacea facta ex aqua, pro- 
 iecto musto extracto; vel acetum aqwa mixtum. 533 A cross 
 
 over best. 534 Ma. Nouembre, B November. 535 Ms. feueryeer. 
 
 1 micia. 2 collige»'e. 3 macei'eare (sic). * flcus. 5 caciimen. 
 6 taleam. 7 cacumew. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 147 
 
 But cleue hit softe, yf that- thou sette a wonde", 
 
 And in this clift do feire a htel stoon. 550 
 
 In ffeueryeer & Marche my silf aloon 
 
 In ytalie ha set fig plauntis grete, 
 
 And right that yeer, ek of her fruytis etc. 
 
 But hem I sette in wel pastyned londe, 
 
 And they tributed with felicite. 555 
 
 The knotty plaunte is best, for they that stonde 
 
 Iknotted scars lackith fertilite. » 
 
 And they that in the semynary be 
 
 Matured wel, & plaunted so, wol sprynge 
 
 Vp feire, & pomys gentylyst forth brynge. 5G0 
 
 Marche 64. [fol. 76.] 
 A bolbe of squylle ek summon wol deuyde, 
 And therynto this plaunte of figtre trie, 
 And bynde hit so therto that hit abide. 
 They louetli spacis large and deluys hye, 
 A.nd londis that beth harde, smal, and drie, 565 
 
 To sauour wel. In sharp and stony lond, 
 [And] almest eriwhere ek may they stonde. 
 Tho that in hillis growe or placis colde 
 Han litel mylk; for thy they may not dure 
 Til hit be hoot. And best her vse is holde 570 
 
 As they beth grene and grete, of sauour pure. 
 Argute ynough. But fatter figge and sure 
 To kepe, in hoot lond and in feeld is spronge. 
 Their kyndis to reherce hit is to longe; 
 Sufficith this, that alle haue oon culture. 575 
 
 And as the Carike^ hath, yef hem distaunce. 
 In places passyng cold, hit is most sure 
 Precox to plaunte; her fruyt they sone enhaunce, 
 
 556 Ms. flbr. 565 harde] over erasure and written as 
 
 one word with smal, B hardde and. 567 Ms. Almest eriwhere, 
 
 B Aijd almoost euery where. 
 
 1 taleam. 2 careo (sic). 
 
 10* 
 
148 Marcke. [Beok iV 
 
 Er shoures come. Eke hit wole most auaunce, 
 In londis that beth estiuous for hete, 580 
 
 The figtre latly ripyng forto gete. 
 Hit ioieth doluen ofte, and liit to donge 
 In heruest is auail; donge of the mewe^ 
 Is best for hem. The roted & mys spronge 
 Let kitte hem of, and so that they may sewe 585 
 Abrood by grounde. Her taste is ek eschewe 
 Ih placis weet; and hem therof to boote, 
 Kest askis on their circumcised roote. 
 Summen ek sette amonge hem caprifige^ [fol. 76.a.] 
 Tre, that hit nede not for remedie 590 
 
 To honge on euery tre that trees fige. 
 In luyn as sonne is hext, to caprifle 
 The fig tre is; that is to signyfie, 
 The figes' grene-of caprifigtre, rende* 
 With tre maad like a sawe'^, on hem suspende. 595 
 For laak of that, a yerde of southernwode " 
 Let honge vp that. Or thus: take rammys hornys^. 
 • Kest hem aboute her rootes, they beth goode; 
 Or ca'him that in elmys leuys born is. 
 Their aboundaunce, as good as rammys horn is. 600 
 Or thus: the turgent trunk let scarifie, 
 That humour effluent out of hit hie. 
 
 To maak hem saaf from wormys, sette a bough 
 
 Of terebynt other a birchen stalke;^ 
 
 Do that wit figtre plauntis in the slough 605 
 
 Enuerse, and wormys in hem wol not walke. 
 
 Or brasen scrapis out of euery dalke 
 
 Hem scrape. Oildreggis oon, and olde vryne 
 
 Another, to their rootis wol reclyne. 
 
 588 kest] line of red through est. 
 
 ' 1 aiiiario. 2 capnfiei. 3 grosses. * pectusos. & serie {sic). 
 ^ abrotani. 7 arietina cornua. ^ taleam. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 149 
 
 Oon vseth cley,^ another oil, and he^ 610 
 
 With quyk lyme wole her dennes ha fordo. 
 
 Yf auntys" vnto hem ennoyous be, 
 
 Eubrike with picche and butter must be do 
 
 The trunk aboute, and vtter wol they go. 
 
 Picche corotyne* vphanged in the tre 615 
 
 ffor auntys, seith another, he wol se; 
 
 Marche. 65. [fol. 77.] 
 Tf figtre caste his fruyt, oildregges on, 
 Rubrike another water mixt wol do 
 Vppon the tre; the thridde is forth ygoon. 
 The flood crabbe and a braunche of rue also 6*20 
 
 Vp hongeth he; sefroth* the ferthe is go 
 To honge vp, and the flfthe he seith a sithe" 
 Maad for lupyne is [vp] to honge asswithe. 
 Another seith the rootis shal be bored, 
 A wegge in euery boore ek shal he steke. 625 
 
 The rynde another hath with axis scored. 
 But when the leuys gynneth out to breke, 
 Of figes fatte and fele hit is to speke: 
 Eight as they first bigynne in germynynge. 
 Their hiest top choppe of for ony thynge; 630 
 
 Or choppe of that amydward in the tre. 
 And premature yf that the list enlonge 
 Their grossis, whenne as grete as benys be 
 So tacke hem of. Ek yf thee thynke hem longe 
 Vnripe, in oil & luce of scalons longe 635 
 
 With pepur mixt, ennoynte her pomys, whenn« 
 Their grossis rody wexing me may kenne. 
 And in Aprile a figtre graffed is 
 Vnder the rynde. And yf the tre be yonge,' 
 The clouen stook to graffe is not amys. 640 
 
 623 Ms. omits vp, B upp. 
 
 1 bitumine. 2 tercius. 3 formice. ^ picem coratinam. ^ algam. 
 6 falx. 7 novelle. 
 
150 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 And wrie hem fest, lest wynd therynto yonge_^. 
 
 Ek next the grounde ykitt wol sonnest fonge.^ 
 
 Men graffe in luyn: oon yeer olde graffe is take, 
 
 And more or lesse as nought is to forsake. 
 
 And in April figtreen inoculate [fol. 77a.] 645 
 
 May best be ther as drie londis be, 
 
 And ek in luyl ther lond is mediate. 
 
 At October in luke'' lond plecheth* he. 
 
 In caprifige and in molbery tre 
 
 ffigtre men graffeth for to multiplie; 650 
 
 And oon wole vse a graffe, another the eye.** 
 
 Ek flgges grene in hony may me kepe 
 
 So they ne touche. Outher in gourdis grene 
 
 Make euery fige a douer* in to crepe, 
 
 And that was cutte of, close hit after clene, 655 
 
 And hoDge hem ther no fir ne smoke is sene. 
 
 A fresh pot oon hem seured picchith yne, 
 
 And doth this pot swymme in a tonne of wyne. 
 
 And Marcial seith men in dyuers wise 
 
 Her figis kepe, and, oon for euerychone, 660 
 
 As Oampanie hem kepeth shal sufflse: 
 
 On fleykis breede & drie hem is to done 
 
 And, yet alsoft, in bask6tis' repone; 
 
 And [in] an ouen hoot, vppon iij stonys 
 
 ffor brennyng hit, this figgy basket done is. 665 
 
 "Whan they beth bake, al hoot into a stene 
 
 Let hem be pressed, picchid, and ywrie. 
 
 Their leuys done the pot & hem bitwene. 
 
 ffor rayn, in sonne yf thou ne mayst hem drie, 
 
 Hote askis may this fleykis vnder strie 670 
 
 In house in stede of sonhe; and, dried so, 
 
 In chistis* smale or coffynys hem do. 
 
 664 Ms. And an, B And in an. 666 Ms. blake, B bake 
 
 {Latin discocta). 
 
 1 intereat. 2 cowprohendere. 3 tepia. * propagat. 5 oculp, 
 6 caueani. '' quails. 8 cistellis. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 151 
 
 Marche. 66. [fol. 78.] 
 Of figtre toppis, plauntis now they make, 
 And dyuers fruyt oon figtre forth to bringe; 
 Too bowes, oon blaak & oon whyt, they take 675 
 And bynde, and wethe^ hem so that ge»-mynynge 
 Commixt vp go; thus sette hem forto springe 
 In moist, ydonged lond annexed so 
 That theyen^ germynaunt togidre go. 
 ■They oned'' thus, I'ruyt of dyuers colour 680 
 
 Vpbrynge in this dyuysed vnyte. 
 This peres graffe & pomes swete or sour. 
 As serve & quyns,* plomme & molbery tre. 
 The ix**" Kalende of April doon this be. 
 Pistacia is graffed now to growe 685 
 
 In cold lond, and pynappul seed* is sow. 
 
 De compaiandis bobus, compaiandis tauris & vaecis. xi ca^. 
 
 And tyme is now thyn oxon to be bought. 
 And be they bought or of thi propurte, 
 Hem now to greithe is good, for ought or nought. 
 Now be they lene, & shewith as they be, .690 
 
 And light to tame her contumacite. 
 Ther are in hem certeyn signys spqctable 
 Which is teschewe, and whiche is profitable. 
 Take oxon yonge, ylymed grete and square, 
 Ychisted sadde, in brawnes risyng grete, 695 
 
 Whos frounte is crispe and glaad, large eres are, 
 Their lippes and their eyea blaak as gete"; 
 "With hornys strong & straugh is good to gete, 
 Compact a runcul' nek, dewlapped side 
 Vnto the kne, and nosed vpward wide. 700 
 
 674 Ms. fruytis, B fruite. Ms. they bringe, -B to brynge. 
 678 Ms. most, B moist. 691 Ms. tametheir with strolce above 
 
 and below between e and t, B tame her. 699 Ms. dewallaped, 
 
 B dewlapped. 
 
 1 torquent. 2 oculi. => adunati. ^ cidonium (sic). 5 semen 
 pini. *> gagate. 7 torora (sic). 
 
152 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Yshildred wide is good, an huge breste, [fol. 78 a.] 
 
 No litel wombe, and wcl out raught the side;^ 
 
 The leendis^ brood, playn baak & streght is beste; 
 
 The thies sadde and senowy*, not to side,* 
 
 With grete cleen,^ and taylis longe and wide, 705 
 
 The body thorgh yhered thicke and breef; 
 
 The reed colour is best and broun is leef. 
 
 Bette is to take of centre then of straunge, 
 
 Ther as witl\ soil or ayeris qualite 
 
 They be not temptid as to fynde hit chaunge. 710 
 
 Or thus taak hem that of like centre be. 
 
 And of alle other this is forto se 
 
 That euen strengthed thou to gidre dresse. 
 
 The feebeller lest that the stronge oppresse. 
 
 Their thewis is to se that they be meke, 715 
 
 Quyk, and aferd of clamour and of gode,* 
 
 And euer appetent metes to seke. 
 
 The fodder grene is best as for their foode; 
 
 ffor fawte of that, gate other thingis goode; • 
 
 And fodder hem as tbay beth setto-on werke. 720 
 
 ffor bolis ek now tyme is forto karke. 
 
 Take bolis that beth high, ylymed huge, 
 
 Of myddil age, and rather yonge then olde; 
 
 A ferdful face, his necke in many a ruge' 
 
 Yfretted grete, and litel homes wolde ■ 725 
 
 He haue; ywonibed streyt is likly holde. 
 
 The kiyn also this tyme hit is to trie; 
 
 Do chese hem that be chested huge & hie. 
 
 Marche. 67. [fol. 79.] 
 Forheded hie and wombed longe and wide, 
 Blak hornys feire and eyen grete and blake, 730 
 
 729 Ms. wombe, B wombed. 
 
 1 lade (/brlatcj-e?). '^ himhis. 3 neruosi. ^ longi. ^vngulig, 
 6 stimuli, 7 toris. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 153 
 
 Wei hered eris and dewlappis side, 
 
 With tailis grete, and litel cleen^ thou take. 
 
 Blak hered theyes short, y undirtake 
 
 That good ar they. Caluyng from iij yeer olJe 
 
 Til X is best, and other with not holde. 735 
 
 Thyn oide away to do be diligent, 
 
 To werk or what thou wilt, & taak in yonge. 
 
 The Grekis seyn that the lift^ instrument, 
 
 The lift stoon, of this bolis beestis [stronge], 
 
 Knytte hym fast in his porce & let hym honge 740 
 
 In coitu, and he shal gendre malis; 
 
 And his right stoon vp knytt -gendrith femalis. 
 
 But in this caas they musten ben abstened 
 
 ffrom generacionis liberte. 
 
 Til they therto be verry hoot for tened. 745 
 
 And ha thy droue* in wynter nygh the see. 
 
 In places glade; in hillis may hit be 
 
 In somer, namly ther as busshis growe 
 
 And herbos for their fosteryng ynowe. 
 
 Though they be better fed aboute flood, 750 
 
 Yet luke water best helpith their feturo.* 
 
 Rayn watir luke in lakis, that is good 
 
 ffor hem; flood watir cold is in nature. 
 
 This droues may the wynter colde endure 
 
 Theroute* al wyntir thorgh, yf hit be nede; 755 
 
 But for thy kiyn" in calf hit is to drede. 
 
 [fol. 79 a.] 
 Lest they ha wrong let make hem closes wide. 
 Their stallis ek beth of vtilite 
 With stonys paued wel from side to side, 
 
 739 Ms. omits stronge, B stronge. 749 Ms. fostryng 
 
 enough, B fosteryng ynowe. 751 'Ms. kepith, B helpeth. 
 
 755 Ms. Throute, B Theroute. 
 
 1 ungulis. 2 sinistrum. ^ armentum. * caluyng. 5 gab 
 diuo, 6 vaccis. 
 
154 Marohe. [Book IV 
 
 Or grauelled; ek flored may they be 760 
 
 With cley, and lenyng sumdei so that the 
 Humour may passe. Ek southward stonde hit; colde 
 Blastis, suwthing obiect, ek from hem holde. 
 
 De bobus domandis, xij eapitulum. 
 
 Oxon^ may now be tamed thre yeer olde; 
 That at v yeris age is hard to do. 765 
 
 Their tamyng is by the hed hem to holde 
 Whil they beth yonge, & stroke hem to and to 
 With hond; and make afore her stallis so 
 Enlarged rowme, outward whan they beth wende 
 That no thyng hem afere, or ought offende. 770 
 
 And footes vij longe their stakis stonde 
 To teye hem to. But fully hem to tame 
 Chese out the feirest day that may be fonde, 
 Ther no tempest or thyng is worthy blame; 
 Now bringe hem oon and oon to yok by name, 775 
 And yf they be rebel, so let hem stonde 
 ffastyng oon day and nyght in yokis bonde. 
 Now glose hem feire, & brynge hem, not bihynde 
 But right afore, of metis sum likynge, 
 And stroke hem nose and bak. Ek thenne is kynde 780 
 Cleer wyn^ on hem al esily to sprynge. 
 But war the horn and heelis lest they flinge 
 A flappe to thee. At this yf they bigynne. 
 And take effect, therfro they wole not twynne. 
 
 Marche. 68. [fol. 80.] 
 Thus tamed, her palate and mouthis frote 785 
 
 With saltis,^ and salt grees pound pecis* take, 
 And iij of hem putte in thyn oxen throte. 
 A sester wyne in with an horn let shake, 
 
 764 Ms. eer, B yeer. 766 Ei-asure of a letter after the. 
 707 Ma. yoke partlt/ covered by a blot, B yonge. 768 Gloss over make 
 illegible on account of blot. 782 flynge] in hand A. 788 Bight 
 margin: Sextarius vini continet duas libras. 
 
 1 boues. 2 uierum. 3 salibus. ^ offas. 
 
Book IV] Marche. 155 
 
 In dayes thre their ragyng wol aslake. 
 
 And other tempte hem first on werkis sniale, 790 
 
 In ered lond the plough as forto hale. 
 
 A shorter way: the wilde oxe with the tame 
 
 Yyoked be to teche hym how to do; 
 
 And in the forgh doun yf he sitte as lame, 
 
 No fier, no strok, no prickyng come hym to, 795 
 
 But bynde his feet that he ner stonde ner go. 
 
 This doon, he wole for hunger & for drie 
 
 Go from this vice, and Yse [hit] not past twye. 
 
 De equis, equabus dt pullis dt etate eornm. xiij ca™. 
 
 Fed stalons^ faat goth now to gentyl maris, 
 And they replete, ayeyn goth they to stabul. 800 
 Oon horses wit for ouer fele ek bare is; 
 Let euery stolon haue as he is abul, 
 So may they longe endure and profitabul. 
 A yong & lusty hors yf hit shal thrive. 
 May ha but twies vj or thries v; 805 
 
 Yef other like her strengthes qualite. 
 But thingis iiij in hem is to biholde: 
 ffourme and colour, merite and beaute. 
 ffirst fourme hym thus: gret rowme his body holde 
 And sad, for lakke of strengthe vnlike to folde; 810 
 Her sidis longe, her altitude abounde. 
 And buttokes haue they right grete & rounde. 
 Tbrestid brode, and al the body lift [fol. 80 a.] 
 In brawny3 grete and knotty densite, 
 With holgh horn high yshood, saad foot & swift. 815 
 Now haue an eye aboute on their beaute — 
 The parties beth these in that to se: 
 A litel dried hed;.vppon the bonys 
 Is best if that the skyn wel streyt ydone is. 
 Their eres short ^ & sharp,^ their eyen stepe*, 820 
 
 795 come] hlot covers co, B come. 798 Ms. omits hit, B it. 
 
 J emissarij. 2 breuis. 3 argute. * magni. 
 
156 Marohe. [Book IV 
 
 Their nasis thorlid^ wide and patent be, 
 
 Their tail and mane^ enlargid wide and depe, 
 
 Their houf* al sad fixe in rotundite. 
 
 Colouris now to jcnowe attendith ye: 
 
 The bay is good colour; & broun* purpure; 825 
 
 The Hard & the white'*, and broun* is sure. 
 
 The walnyed' is good, also the blake 
 
 Is fyn colour, the falow and herthued*; 
 
 The pomly gray* for hym y vndirtake. 
 
 The gray^", the goldenhered,^^ & the scued.^^ 830 
 
 And next hena in merit is dyuers hued: 
 
 Black bay, & perniixt gray, mousdon^'^ also, 
 
 The fomy, spotty hu, and many mo. 
 
 But stalons best bath clere in oon coloured, 
 
 Alle other left, but yf the magnytude 835 
 
 Of their merite hem that beth discoloured 
 
 Excuse, and in a maner so exclude. 
 
 Thi maris take of like similitude; 
 
 But rathest be their bulk & wombes large; 
 
 This craft in gentyl haras is to charge. 840 
 
 Marche. 69. [fol. 81.] 
 Alle other marys may be with their ijiales 
 Al yeer at large; and this is their nature. 
 That monthis twelue in fole euery female is. 
 Another thing in stalons" is to cure. 
 That they be sette a sonder for lesure 845 
 
 When they beth wode; and do this maner drouys 
 In somer ther is colde and thicke of grouys. 
 In wynter ther is fattest and plesaunt, 
 And sumdel hard, to sette a{ firmyte 
 
 825 Ixft margin-: rairreus esi pr«ss«s cum purpura. Ms. 
 ^ernj, B perniixt. 
 
 1 nares. '-^ sesaries (caesaries). 3 ungula. * mirreus. 
 5 albus. 6 pressus. 7 glaucus. 8 ceruinus. 9 scutulatus. 1" russeus. 
 11 aureus. 12 guttatus. 13 murinus. 1* omissariis (sic). 
 
fiook IV] Marche. ibi 
 
 Their horny s^ on their feet — this let hem haunt. 850 
 
 Impacient yf that femalis be 
 
 And wol no male, her naturalite 
 
 With stamped swille embawme other ennoynt, 
 
 And they wole sone enabul in that ioynt. 
 
 Fro colde and honger holde hem that beth grete' 855 
 
 In fole, and yef hem place at their pleasaunce. 
 
 And gentil femalis that malls gete, 
 
 Vche other yeer be kept fro fecundaunce, 
 
 That they may mylke her fohs aboundaunce; 
 
 So shal they be the bigger, huge and pure. 860 
 
 Alle other take as comth of hem no cure. 
 
 ■A stalon may bigynne at yeris v, 
 
 And his female at yeris ij conceyueth; 
 
 But after yeris x their coltis blyue 
 
 Shal neuer go, the priker they disceyueth. 865 
 
 ffolis with bond to touche a corser weyueth; 
 
 Hit hurtith hem to hondel or to holde. 
 
 Defende hem eke as resoun wol from colde. 
 
 In foils, as they are adolescentis, •[fol. 81a.] 
 
 Yf they be goode as myche is forto se 870 
 
 As is biforn wel seid of their parentis; 
 
 Quyk, swift and stiryng with hillarite. 
 
 Now foils too yeer old may tamed be: 
 
 Take brawny bodied, huge, argute & longe, 
 
 Smale ballockyng, and euere short vphonge; 875 
 
 In other thyng taak hem their fadir like, 
 
 So thewed that from high quyete & restc,^ 
 
 Anoon they may be stored forto prike; 
 
 And fastest priked, turnyng at the beste. 
 
 Now hard be hit not eft to make hym reste.'' 880 
 
 Their myddel teeth aboue at too yeer age 
 
 They cause, at yeeris iiij another gage; 
 
 859 may added above in same hand. 
 1 vngulas, 2 requie. 3 requiescere. 
 
158 Marche. [Book IV 
 
 Er yeeris sixe out gotb the gomes stronge; 
 
 The caused first at yeeris sixe are euen^: 
 
 At vij yeer are alle ylike longe, 885 
 
 The markis of their age ar lost at seuen. 
 
 Their browis hore, her templis hoJgh vneuen^, 
 
 The teeth out seeth. Now alle fourfoted beestis, 
 
 And namly hors, to gelde yliolden best is. 
 
 De mulino genere & asinis. xiiij capitidum. 
 
 This mulis forto make who so delyte, 890 
 
 A mare yboned sadde, ybulked grete, 
 Yfourmed nobully, most ben ehte; 
 And though she be not swift, a stronge oon gete 
 Of yeeris foure vnto this werk to trete. 
 Til yeeris x she for this admissure 895 
 
 Is good, but this mot haue a bisy cure. 
 
 Marche. 70. [fol. 82.]* 
 The mare yf thasse eschewe, on his female 
 As tempte hym first, and whanne he gynneth ride. 
 His wyf is out, this mare is into hale; 
 Whil he doth oon, that other hold aside, 900 
 
 ffor furious in lust he wole abide 
 And do, but yf he bite hir in his rage. 
 Let labouryng his melancoly swage. 
 
 A male ek of an hors and of an asse 
 Is had, and of a wilde asse'^ and a mare. 905 
 
 But gentiler in kynde neuer nasse 
 Tlian of the mare and asse yfourmed are. 
 Of asses* wilde and mares better nare 
 Ther no stalouns, of whom the geniture 
 ffor to be stronge and swift me may assure. 910 
 
 A staloun asse ybolked, brawny*, sadde 
 902 Ms. omits hir, B bite hir. 
 
 1 equantur. 2 inequantwr. 8 onagro. * onagros. " musculosMS. 
 • In hand D. 
 
Book IV] Marcke. 159 
 
 And large ylimed, stronge & steyth, al blaak 
 
 Or moushered or reed is to been hadde — 
 
 But choys yf that ther be, moushered taak. 
 
 And discolour in browes hath a laak, 915 
 
 And eres ek; but what? That their ospringe* 
 
 01 variaunt coloures forth they bringe. 
 
 Thre yeres age is leest, and x is meest. 
 
 And from Mr damme a she asse^ oon yer olde 
 
 Do putte in sharp pastures that the beest 920 
 
 In tender age on labour gynne bolde. 
 
 The male aselle in feeldes forto holde 
 
 Hit needful is, for he to diligent 
 
 Labour wole take and ek be negligent. 
 
 [fol. 82 a.] 
 De apium infirmitatibns et curacione. xv ca^K 
 
 The bee^ this Marche is wont to be ful sike, 925 
 That after wynter cold and abstynent 
 On titymalle and elmes gynneth pike 
 , That bitter be, wherof anoon relent 
 Ther wombes are; and soone be they shent. 
 But yf me helpe anoon with medicine. 930 
 
 Now rewe on hem and helpe hem out of pyne. 
 Wyne Aniynee with pouigarnates* grayn, 
 Or reyson grayn es with dew Siriake^ 
 And myghty wyne — al this ygrounden playn 
 And boyled in sharp wyne is forto take, 935 
 
 And into litel treen trowes shake. 
 Or rosmaryn* in mBth' decoct, congele," 
 And yef hit hem in gutters,* hem to hele. 
 And clorded® yf their backes be, silent 
 And slough, a thing horribul to biholde, 940 
 
 And corces dede out beryng diligent, 
 
 913 Ms. it, ^B is. 919 yer] eraswre of e after r. 
 
 923 Ms. ffor. 
 
 1 sobolem. 2 asina. =* apea. ^ mall garnati. ^ rore siriaco. 
 6 rorem marinum. ^ mulsa. 8 imbricibus. 9 contracte. 
 
i60 Marcte. [Book IV 
 
 Chaneles* is to make of cannes^ olde 
 
 That vehe of hem a quantite may holde; 
 
 Putte hony into hem and po'uder galle, 
 
 Or pouder rose, and hit wole hele hem alle. 945 
 
 Moost spedy is the roten combes kerue 
 
 Away, and if the swarme is but of fewe, 
 
 Ther empty combes of the same serue. 
 
 But taak the kennest knyf of al the rewe 
 
 To do this softly with, lest al remewe, 950 
 
 And they seynge her dwellyng so forfare, 
 
 (jo fle away with gr6t compleyn and care. 
 
 Marche. 71. [fol. 83.] 
 Ek ofte ennoyeth hem feJicite, 
 As floures ouer fele of whom they trie 
 So faste hony, that on fecundite 955 
 
 They thenketh not ner how to multiplie. 
 But doth hemself trauail vntil they die. 
 ffor thy yf combes ronke of hony wepe,-'' 
 Thre dayes stopped vp at home hem kepe. 
 Thus stopped vp, to generacioun 960 
 
 And bringing babes forth they wole attende. 
 Their dwelling places expurgacion 
 Of euery filthe, about April Kalende, 
 Wole haue of right, ther wynter hath hit shende. 
 Now pike out moughthes,* attercoppes,^ wormes," 965 
 And butterflie' whos thost engendring worm is. 
 Smoke of ensense effuse in drie ox donge 
 Do vnder hem to hele hem and socoure. 
 Til boniest do this ofte yf hit be longe. 
 Al sobour, chaste, vneteh metes soure, 970 
 
 ffrom bathes ahene, vnclene odoure 
 
 952 B compleynt, cf. note. 962 expurgacion] r added 
 
 above in same hand. 
 
 1 canales. 2 cannis. •■* vel drepe. * tineas. 5 araneas. 
 6 vermiculos.. '' papiliones. 
 
Book iV] Marclie. 161 
 
 And sauces alle and metes salt, auyse 
 Thee wel to been^ in doing been^ seruyse. 
 
 [With Octobre Marche houres feet beth euen. 
 
 The first hath xxv feet; xv 975 
 
 ffeet hath the secounde houre, the thridde xj; 
 
 The fourthe hath viij, and v vp six sustene, 
 
 And six hath v. In vj, vij demene, 
 
 And so goo forth. X hath feet thries v, 
 
 Xj goth with xxv blyve.] 980 
 
 [fol. 83 a.] 
 
 Now Marche is doon, and to correctioun 
 His book is goon, as other dede afore, 
 Of hym that seid "y thy protectioun 
 ffroni al thy foon aduersaunt, lesse & more," 
 And his bihest stedfest is euermore. 985 
 
 Honour, empire, and iubilatioun 
 To lesu Crist in special therfore — 
 My Lif! my Light! my right Sauacioun! 
 
 Ayeyn to werk am y sette, and y haste. 
 
 "Com of, let se who be the sharpe penne, 99Q 
 
 The tyme is riche and synne is hit to waste" 
 
 Fiuerj moment seith, "Eis, y go, com thenne^ 
 
 To iugement". what may y sey thenne,* 
 
 That mony an hour ha spende and not al wel? 
 
 But mercy, God! Now husht of this, for renne 995 
 
 I must, and heer bigynne At Auerel. 
 
 975 The "De horis" stanza is omitted; space has been left 
 for it and the letter D in right margin marlcs its place. The 
 stanga is here supplied from B. 995 Ms. ffor. 
 
 1 esse. 2 apibus. 3 jnde. * tune. 
 
 11 
 
y. 
 
 APEILE. 
 
 Aprile. 72. [fol. 84.] 
 De medica serenda S disciplina eius. Pnmum ca^. 
 
 At Auerel medike^ is forto so we 
 In beddes foiirmed as is taught biforu, 
 That ones sowen, yeres x wole growe. 
 And yerly iiij or tymes sixe yshorn, 
 Hit dongeth londes lene, & beestes lorn 5 
 
 ffor lene hit fedeth vp, and seeke ariscth. 
 Thre hors a yer an aker wel suffiseth. 
 A cruse ^ is for a bed ynough to take 
 Of footes V in brede & doubil longe. 
 And wrie hem quycly with a treen rake, 10 
 
 Lest that the sonne vpbrenne or do hem wronge. 
 ffrom thennes do noon yron hem amonge, 
 But oonly tre. And good is wede hem ofte, 
 Lest wedes ille oppresse hem yonge and softe. 
 First repe hit laat, that seedes sumdell shake, 15, 
 
 And after repe hit as thee thenketh good; 
 And fodder for thi beestes therof make 
 ffirst scant; ^ hit swelleth and encreseth blood. 
 And watter wel the lond ther as hit stood. 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses. 10 a] Mice a in ycalde III 891. 
 1 medica. 2 ciatus. 3 parce. 
 
Book V] Aprile. 163 
 
 Six sithe ayer repe hit, as ofte hit wede, 20 
 
 And yeres x ther is of hit no drede. 
 
 De serenda olea, de vineis & cetera. Secuniuwj caspitulum. 
 
 Olyue is graffed now in temper lond, 
 As is biforn ytaught, vnder the rynde, 
 In wilde olyue ^ olyues forto stonde 
 So that, though they be brende, out of their kynde 25 
 They chaunge not. This craft be not bihynde: 
 Make delues, sette in hem thi wilde olyue, ^ 
 And fille hem vp half ful vntil thei thriue. 
 This wilde olive ytaken, graffre hym lowe, [fol. 84a.J 
 And as the graffe vpspryngyng gynneth renne, 30 
 The molde aboute his stokke & hym vpgrowe 
 Wei vp ouer the graffryng stede; & thenne, 
 Though fier be sette on hit, hit shal not brenne. 
 His commissure in erthe hit stent so depe. 
 And out of hit olive agayn wol crepe. 35 
 
 Olyues summe iu rootes graffe, and rende 
 Hem after out with parcel of the roote,^ 
 (But first this graffes wel most comprehende) 
 And sette hem forth as plauntes forto roote*. 
 ffrom the viij Kalende of Aprile hit is boote, 40 
 
 As Grekes seyn, til lules thridde None 
 To graffe in hoot lond late, in cold lond sone. 
 Er then this mones Ide in places colde 
 Beth vynes dolue, and hem that Marche hath lefte"* 
 Vnset, lete sette hem now. Now weded wolde 45 
 
 Thy semyn aires be and doluen efte. 
 Panyk" and milde' in comyn drie is lefte* 
 To sowe; and ere vp feeldes fatte and wete, 
 And wedes tender yette out of hem gete. 
 
 20 six] final e erased. 23 Bight margin: 38; b, c, d. 
 
 36 wol] final e erased. 
 
 1 oliastro. 2 oliastium. 3 radicis. * radicare. 5 dimisit. 
 6 panicujn. '' miliuTO. 8 acceptum. 
 
 11' 
 
164 AprUe. [Book V 
 
 Be diuersis herbis in orto. iij capitulum. 
 
 Last iu this mone, as veer is nygh at eende, 50 
 Brasike, that wortes serueth, is to sowe, 
 ffor tyme is past a croppe^ on hit tascende. 
 Ek ache in euery maner lond is throwe, 
 So liit be weet. In drie ek wole hit growe 
 If nede be. And nygh in all the mones, 55 
 
 ffro prime veer til heruest last, this doon is. 
 
 Aprile. 73. [fol. 85.] 
 As of this aches ^ ther be kyndes thre: 
 The soure and stordy yposelinon, 
 This is the first; the softe yfoiled be 
 Secounde, yclept elioselinon, 60 
 
 In lakes spronge ; and petroselinon, 
 In places hard vpspryngyng. Diligent 
 Men tile and haue al thre to their entent. 
 The gretter ache* is raaad thus: fyngres thre 
 fful of that seed do in a lynnen thynne 65 
 
 Cloth; in a litel delf so sette hit be. 
 The growyng [of hem] into oon heed wole wynne, 
 And so be greet, asonder not to twynne. 
 They wol be crispe, her seed yf that me crese. 
 Or with a roUe or feet hem sprongon brese. 70 
 
 Ek tholder seed, the sonner is hit spronge; 
 The yonger dwelleth longer. Now arage* 
 Is sowe and so forth al the somer longe, 
 Til heruest come in with his gretter wage. 
 But yef hym drinke ynough in youth & age, 75 
 
 ffor humour dronkon, rathest vp goth he; 
 And sowen, hidde anoon he praieth be. 
 From hym the wedes plucke. Vnnecessaire 
 Is hym to plaunte yf he be wel ysowe. 
 
 57 Initial omitted. 67 Ms. omits of hem, B of hem. 
 
 78 Mss. vnnecessari. 
 
 quima s. cima. 2 apii. 3 maiorem apium. * atriplex. 
 
Book V] Aprile. 165 
 
 Yet better wol he springe & hier caire, 80 
 
 Wei rare yf he be plaunted forto growe; 
 
 Ek luce^ of donge & humour on hem throwe. 
 
 With yron hym to croppe is his encrece; 
 
 So cropped, forto springe he wol not cece. 
 
 Basilicon^ is sowen in this mone," [fol. 85a.] 85 
 
 And theruppon [yjsowen yf me shal 
 
 Hoot water sprynge, vpgoth hit wonder sone. 
 
 Ek meruel thing affermeth Marcyal 
 
 Therof, that purpur now the flour is al, 
 
 Now is hit whit, now rose — this is straunge. 90 
 
 Hit ofte ysowe ek maketh wonder chaunge; 
 
 To pelitur^ and to horsmyntes* ek 
 
 Hit chaungeth ofte. Cucumber® now is sowe; 
 
 Melones", peletur', cappare*, and leek." 
 
 Colcasyes plauntes now beth sette to growe; 95 
 
 Now coriander, letus,^° betes, throwe 
 
 In molde; oynouns, myntes, goordes, & goldys" 
 
 Now secoundly to sowe or keste in molde is. 
 
 De zizipho & alijs pomis S eius ponds, iiij ca". 
 
 NOW ziziphus is sette in feruent londe. 
 At May or luyn in londes that ben colde; 100 
 Ther glad and warme is loueth he to stonde. 
 To sette or stook, or plaunte, or boon, is holde 
 Right good. Softe erthe in Marche the plauntes wolde 
 Stonde in. Thre bones in thin hondes brede 
 Inuerse into the delf, is doun to lede. 105 
 
 Do aske and donge on hem aboue and vnder. 
 And breke away the wedes with thin honde. 
 
 86 Ms. sowen, B ysowen. 90 rose and r in straunge 
 
 added above in hand A. 97 Left margin: de pnma saciowe 
 
 intebe habetur 57, a. 99 feruent londe] in hand A over erasure. 
 101 Ms. loketh, B loueth (Lat. amat). 103 Ms. &, B in. 
 
 1 succum. 2 ozimum (ocimum ?). 3 seppillum (serpillum). 
 ^ sisimbrium. 5 cucumer. 6 raelones. 7 sepillum (sic). 8 capparus. 
 9 porrum. 10 lactuca. U intebe (iniybae). 
 
166 Aprile. [Book V 
 
 And thombe^ gret in pastyn hem asonder, 
 
 Or into delf. They axe not to faat londe, 
 
 So that by faat & not by lene hit stonde. 110 
 
 In wynter to his codde^ an heep of stonys 
 
 Is good, that in the somer vtter don is. 
 
 Aprile. 74. [fol. 86.] 
 Yf this tre lowre,^ an horscomb* wol hyni chere; 
 Or lite & ofte embaume his roote oxdonge. 
 In places drie her fruytes ripe al yere 115 
 
 Is kept in cleyed erthen pottes longe. 
 No ruge*^ on hem, puld newe, old wyne yspronge 
 Wol suffre be. Ek honged with their bough, 
 Or in their leues fold, is good ynough. 
 This mone also, by rather lerned reson, 120 
 
 To sette and graffe in places temporate 
 Pomgarnat is. And peches^ ban their seson 
 At May Kalendes hem tenoculate,' 
 Eight as we seide of figges emplastrate. 
 Ek citurtre* this mone in places colde 125 
 
 Is forto graffe, as is biforn ytolde 
 In cold lond now the figtre plaunte is sette," 
 And graffed in the stook or in the rynde. 
 As discipline of hem byforn is sette ;^° 
 And hem tenoculer ek haue in mynde. 130 
 
 Now cefalon, the palmes plaunte, is kynde 
 In glaad to sette & hoot. Now graffyng serve ^^ 
 In quince,^^ in whit thorn, in hym silf wol serue.^-' 
 
 Be oleo violacio et vino, v eapitulum. 
 
 Oiluyolet to make attende: of oil 
 As many pound, as many vnces take 135 
 
 1J5 Ms. plates. In right margin: — 120 60, o, f. 124 
 65, e. 126 65, c, d. 127 63. e, f, g, h. 128 65, d. 
 
 130 6[5], e. 
 
 1 pollicis. 2 codici. 3 tristis sit. * strigilus. 5 rugam. 
 6 perficus (sic). ^ Jnoculare. 8 citrus. 9 plautata, 1° posita. 
 11 sorbi. 12 cidonio (sic). 13 seruir«. 
 
Book VJ Aprile. 167 
 
 Of violet, not but oonly the foil, 
 
 And xl dales stonding throute^ hit make. 
 
 To X sester old wyn, v pound inslake 
 
 Of violet vndewy;^ and x pounde 
 
 Hony the xxx*^ day is forto enfounde. 140 
 
 De viiulis mitriendis, tonsuris, <& signaturis. vj ca"'. [fol. 86 a.] 
 
 Now calues to be calued is the gise. 
 But yef hem mete ynough that were •with childe. 
 That they to mylk and labour may suffice; 
 And yef their children tosted grounden mylde^ 
 Commixt with mylk. Now sheep shere* in ayer mylde.*145 
 Laat" lamber' marke hem now. Now first tuppyng* 
 Be maad, lambron to ripe er wynter sprynge. 
 
 De apibus muestigandis & aluearijs purgandis. vij ca'^. 
 
 This mone in places apte is been to seche. 
 Place apte is ther swete herbes multiplie 
 And bees the welles haunte, & water cleche; 150 
 
 Vtilite is there to mellifie. 
 But wher the swarmes dwelle, is craft tespie. 
 And first yf they be dwellyng fer or nygh, 
 Se heer the craft, and truly hit is sligh. 
 
 Taak rubryk" poured in sum litel shelle, 155 
 
 And therwithal the baak of euery bee" 
 
 A pensel touche as they drynke at the welle. 
 
 And note hem after whiderward they fie. 
 
 Then by their yeynturnyng a mon may se 
 
 How fer or nygh they be. And to the nygh 160 
 
 To come is light, but to the fer be slygh. 
 
 Kitte out a ioynt of reed, and in the side 
 Therof let make an hole, and theryn do 
 Hony or swete wyn sumdel; biside 
 
 1 sub diuo. 2 sine rore. 3 milio. * tonde. ° s. calidc. 
 6 serotinos. "^ agnos. 8 admissura. 9 vel radul id est rubricam. 
 10 apis. 
 
168 Aprile. [Book V 
 
 The well or water that the been gooth to, 165 
 
 Let hem goon in as fele as wol in go, 
 And after hem the hole yclosed be; 
 And first let oon of hem out of hit flee, 
 
 Aprile. 75. [fol. 87.1 
 And folow fast, for thiderward they dwelle 
 Straught wol they fle. And whan thou may not se 170 
 No lenger hir, another forth to telle 
 Let go, for thiderward ek wol she fle; 
 But sewe vppon. Do thus fro bee to bee, 
 Thus wole they lede oon to their dwellyng place. 
 But in the mornyng gynne hem thus to trace, 175 
 
 That al the day vnto thy sewt suffise, 
 
 ffor toward nyght in restyng they assure. 
 
 Or thus : a thing with hony thou deuyse 
 
 To sette as by the welle of their pasture. 
 
 When oon hath tasted hit, anoon his cure 180 
 
 Doth he to brynge his brethren to that feeste, 
 
 And that they haunte anoon the meest & leeste. 
 
 Now se the cours how they go to & fro. 
 And sewe hem hoom. Yf they ben in a leave, 
 Bismoke hem, out of hit anoon they go. 185 
 
 Then make a sowne^ on bras, & thou shalt haue 
 Hem lightyng in sum bush or tre; now shaue 
 Hem into an hyue. If they be in a tre, 
 Ther hous ouer and vnder sawed be. 
 
 Vpwrappe hem clene & sette hem with thin hiues. 190 
 To frote^ her houses wel with citriage''' 
 And herbes swete, is plesaunt to their lyues. 
 If this be doon while veer is yong of age, 
 The Welles nygh, of vnfeyned curage 
 
 165 Ms. they, B the. 177 Ms. nygh, JS nyght. 
 
 1 sonituOT. 2 pej-fricare. 3 citriagine. 
 
Book V] Aprile. 169 
 
 Of been therto wole come a multitude. 195 
 
 Now war that theues nought thi craft delude. 
 
 Now purge her hyues, sle the butterflie^ [fol. 87 a.] 
 
 That in the malwes flouring wol abounde. 
 
 A brasen vessel streyte with brinkes hie, 
 
 A light at nj^ght make stondyng in the grounde; 200 
 
 The butterflies wole this light enrounde 
 
 And brenne heraself; thus may me liem destroye 
 
 Vchone anoon, that thinges fele ennoye. 
 
 De horis. Octauum capitulam. 
 Avrel \iith September in honris oon is: 
 Oon, twyis twelue, and tweyne hath twyis vij ; '205 
 Thre, twyis v, and iiij hath vij onys, 
 And V hath v, and vj hath iij foote eucn. 
 Now vij, viij, and ix & x, xi, 
 With V and iiij & iij, and ij & I 
 Beth hour for hour & foot for foot to goon. 210 
 
 And heer an ende, er then y wende, y fynde; 
 
 Eek done is, in this nione art taught aforn. 
 
 Saluatour! o lesse fflour so kynde. 
 
 Of oon for euerychoon that list be born. 
 
 And for vs hynge, a crowne vsynge of thorn! 215 
 
 Honour be to The, fflour of flouris! Ay 
 
 Thy pnncis werk away fro derk vpborn 
 
 So make, as heer y take ayeyn At May. 
 
 196 Ms. delute, B delude. 197 Ms. their, B her. 
 
 202 Ms. destoye, o added above in same hand, B destroye. 
 ^Oi Rubric and "De Horis" stanza, as well as epilogue, in hand A. 
 208 Ms. xij, B xi. 
 
 papilioues. 
 
YL 
 MAY. 
 
 May. 76. [fol. 88.] 
 De panico dt milio & feno reddendo. Pnmum ca™. 
 
 At May in placis that ben colde & wete, 
 Panyk & niylde in their maner is sowe. 
 Now euery grayne almeest hath floures swete; 
 Vntouched now the tilman let hem growe. 
 Barly & whete & sengul soedes owe 5 
 
 Viij dayes floure & xl dayes grete^ 
 Withouten flour, ripnesse^ vntil they gate. 
 Al doubil seed, as benes", peses* be. 
 And other puls^, a xl dayes floure, 
 And greteth with. In places nygh the see, 10 
 
 In places drie & colde, now tyme and houre 
 Is hey to mowe. And yf the rayn bishoure, 
 Wende hit not til hit be parfit drie. 
 Now to the vyne is efte to haue an eye. 
 
 Be nouelle sarmentis reliquendis. ij cw^. 
 
 Consider now sarmentes^ tender, yonge, ' 15 
 
 And leue a fewe of hem that saddest be. 
 And holde her arnies vp til they be stronge. 
 A yong vyne hath ynowe on ij or iij 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses. 2 In right margin: 54; h. 
 
 1 grandescere. 2 matiiritate. 3 fabe. * pisa. 5 ligumiwa 
 {sic). 6 scions. 
 
Book VI] May. 171 
 
 Armes; and swethed hem to geder se, 
 
 Lest wyndes rude hem brake & ouerthrowe, 20 
 
 A.nd no mater be lefte on hem to growe. 
 
 This mone is ek for pampinaciouw 
 
 Oonuenient -^ void leves puld to be; 
 
 But sette vppon this occupaciouw 
 
 Whil that me may with no difflculte 25 
 
 With fyngres lightly twyk hem from the tre. 
 
 This craft wol fede vp grapes fatte & grete 
 
 And Phebus wol go ripe hem with his hete. 
 
 De pToseindendis et apsriendis nouis agris. iij ca^. [fol. 88 a.] 
 
 Now feeldes fatte in herbes ouergrowe 
 Is good to plowe, and leyes vp to breke. 30 
 
 Se whether drie or weet, or playn or rowe 
 Hit be, or ful of bosh or stones steke. 
 Let dicho hit deep that humour out may leke, 
 If hit be weet. A comyn diche in kynde 
 To make is ligliter then the diches blynde. 35 
 
 A forgh^ iij footes deep tliy londes thorgh, 
 With grauel or with litel pibbul stonys 
 Vnto the mydward fild ayeyn this forgh, 
 And euen therthe aboue ascaunz her noon is, 
 And thus do efte as ofte as good to doon is. 40 
 
 But hede hit that the hedes of hem alle, 
 Into sum gret diche picchelonges falle; 
 Tliumour^ shal passe and thus thi lond be saued. 
 And stones yf thee lacketh, this is boote: 
 Sarment, or stre, or loppe in hit be graued. 45 
 
 If ther be treen, vpstocke hem by the roote; 
 Her oon, ther oon, to leue afer remote 
 I holde hit good. If hit be ful of stonys, 
 ffor closure of thy feeld, better 'Stuf noon is. 
 
 43 Ms. T. thus shal, B omits thus. || Ms. and lond, JS and 
 thus thi lande. 
 
 1 sulcurn, 2 humor. 
 
172 May. [Book VI 
 
 Haue up this stones; storne Ynto the wallis, 50 
 
 They may thy feeld vnkomber & defende. 
 
 If risshes, gresse, or fern inwith this will is, 
 
 With eryng ofte her lyues wol be spende. 
 
 Lupyne or benes sowen ofte, anende 
 
 Of hem wol make, yf euer as they springe 55 
 
 Her hedes with- a sikel of thou flynge. 
 
 De ablaqueatis arhoribns, occandis et cetera. iUj ca^. 
 
 May. 77. [fol. 89.] 
 
 NoW vyne and tre that were ablaqueate. 
 To couer hem hit is conuenient. '' 
 Now as the treen beth cladde in her estate 
 ffor gutteryng^ to hewe is and to hent. 60 
 
 A corayn busshel gret circumferent, 
 Or litel lesse, oon of thi workers falle 
 That kunyngest is of his felous alle. 
 The semynair is doluen in this mone 
 Al bisily. In places ouer colde 65 
 
 And pluuyous, olyues is to done 
 To kitte, and mosse^ awey be rased wolde. 
 The feeld ek now, ther as me sowe shulde 
 Lupyn for dongyng lond, to plowe hit nede is. 
 Now turnc ayeyn to gardeyn sowyng seedys: 70 
 
 De spaeijs ortoruru pastinandis (f seminibus serendis. v ca™. 
 
 ^'^h.e spaces that in heruest sowe or sede 
 - Me wol, may best ha now their pastynynge. 
 Now ache is sowe, and how, biforn take heede. 
 Melouns & coriaunder sowen, sprynge. 
 Of gourdes^, tasyl*, radish, now sowyng 75 
 
 Is good. Now rue is sette, and now transplaunte 
 A leek, so drynk ypbolde hym forto avaunte. 
 
 55 Ms. euery, B euer. 67 awey] e altered from a. 
 
 70 seedys] d lilte a in ycalde III 891. 73 In right margin: 72. h. 
 
 1 ruderibtw. 2 musous. 3 cucurbite. * cardui. 
 
Book VI] ' May. 178 
 
 De pomis florentibus et cetera, vj capitulum. 
 
 In places hoot now pomgarnates^ floure^, 
 That Marcial k meruayl doth of telle. 
 Into a potte of erthe enduce a floure* 8C 
 
 Vppon his bough doun bounden ther to dwelle. 
 To fiUyng of this pott tiie fruyt wol swelle 
 By heruest tyrae; and than his magnitude 
 By brekyng of this pot me may disclude. 
 In londes hoot the peches* in this mone [fol. 89a.] 85 
 Emplastred are, and now in londes colde 
 The citurtre^ to tile is good to done 
 In diners wise, as is tofore ytolde. 
 Now zizifus & flgtre forto holde, 
 Men sette or graffe in colde or chillyng londe. 90 
 
 The palme ek now men setteth forth to stonde. 
 
 Be eastrandis vitulis dt cetera, vij capitulum. 
 
 NOW Mago seith is good castracioun 
 Of litel veles" whiJ their age is tender, 
 fferul to cleve an occupacioun 
 
 Be first, and presse in hit their stones slender; 95 
 So wole they dwyne away that shulde engender. 
 In veer and heruest ek spryngyng the mone, 
 Is best, as seith this Mago, this to done. 
 Other with tynnen tonges' take her strynges, 
 ffirst bounden lest they nold not graunte hem leve^, 100 
 And feire of with a knyf they cutte her thinges". 
 But sumdel on the strynges heed they leue^°; 
 This stauncheth blood and al wol not bireue 
 Her stordy myght. Her woundes let enlyne 
 With aske of wyne, and with spume argentyne^^ 105 
 
 79 Bight margin: The same afore: 60, d. 88 Left 
 
 margin : 61, d & cetera, per tota. 92 Mago] glossed pro nomen 
 (for praenomen?) or perhaps pro note. 
 
 1 mala punica. 2 florere. 3 florem. persicus. B citrum. 
 6 vitulor«TO. 7 ferulam. 8 stagneis forcipibjw. 9 liccnciam. 10 s. 
 testiculos. 11 dimittunt. 12 spuma argonti. 
 
174 May. [Book VI 
 
 With abstynence of drynk and litel mete, 
 After this feest, as fede hem daies thre 
 Grene herbes; croppes swettest let hem ete, 
 And bowes softe and toppe of tender tre 
 Bidewed or biwet whether hit be. 110 
 
 Tar mixt with aske and oil after iij dayes 
 Ennoynte his wounde, & saaf thi beest for ay is. 
 
 May. 78. [fol. 90.] 
 Castracioun in better wise is founde 
 In dayes late: as first a beest, to bynde, 
 And, bounden so, to holde hym fast to grounde, 115 
 And streyne in tre the witnes of his kynde, 
 And with a brennyng ax away bihynde 
 To hewe hem bothe. Or haue a thing therfore 
 Maad like a swerd this folk away to score. 
 This yron maad, thi rewie of tre ley to 120 
 
 This thingis streit, and with this brennyng yre 
 So smyte hem of, quycly that hit bo do; 
 So wol the wo be short of litel yre. 
 Ek skyn and stryuges seryng so tenfire 
 Vpstauncheth blood, and closith so the wounde 125 
 That, saue a cicatrice, is nought yfounde. 
 I)e tonsuris ouium. viij capitulum. 
 
 Now sheep beth shorn in placis temporate. 
 [ffor] sheep yshorn make vncture of lupynys. 
 The luce of hit decoct le[y] first therate 
 With dreggis bothe of oyle and aged wynys, 130 
 
 Of iche yliche; a thing for sheep this fyn is. 
 Herwith ennoynte hem alle, and aftir thre 
 Dayes let ouer wasshe hem in the. see. 
 And yf the see be fer, licour of heuen 
 With litil salt decoct, this beest ennoynte. 135 
 
 Out wasshe of hit, but do this long er euen, 
 
 109 Ms. toppos, B toppc. 128 Ms. omits for, B for. || 
 
 vncture] cture over erasure. 129 Ms. 1g, B omits ley. 
 
Book "VI] May. 175 
 
 And oner yeer they wol been in good poynte 
 
 Withouten scorf or scalle in cors or ioynte. 
 
 Also they shal ha sol'te encrisped wolle 
 
 And wondirly prolonged at the fuUe. 140 
 
 De casio faciendo. Nonum capitulum. [fol. 90a.] 
 
 Alfresh the mylk is crodded now to chese^ 
 With crudde of kyde, or lambe, other of calf, 
 Or flour of tasuP wilde. Oon of hem chese-', 
 Or that pellet* that closith eueryhalf 
 The chike or pyiouncrawe, hool either half. 145 
 
 With flgtre mylk^ fresh mylk also wol turne. 
 Then wringe hit, presse hit, vndir poundes storne; 
 And, sunidel sadde, vpdo hit in a colde 
 Place other derk; and aftir vnder presse 
 Constreyne hit efte, and salt aboute hit folde ; 150 
 So sadder yet, let saddest hit compresse. 
 When hit is wel confourmed to sadnesse, , 
 On fleykes logge hem, vche oon so from other 
 That nere a sistir touche nere a brother. 
 But ther the place is cloos, is hem tenclude, 155 
 
 And holde out wynde, although he rowne or crie; 
 So wol their fatnesse and teneritude 
 With hem be stille. And yf a chese is drie, 
 Hit is a nice, and so is many an iye 
 If hit see with — that comth yf sonnyng brendde, 160 
 Or mych of salt or lite of presse hit shende. 
 Another in fresh mylk to make of chese 
 Pynuttis' grene ystamped wol be do; 
 Another wol ha tyme a man to brese, 
 And clensed often, luce of hit do to 165 
 
 151 let] added above in different (?) hand, B omits. 159 Ms. 
 
 auice, B avyce. 164 Ms. aman to presse, B a m. to brese. 
 
 1 caseum. 2 cardui. 3 eligo. * pollioulawi. 5 vndiqne. 6 lacte 
 flculneo. 7 nucleos pincos, lerongly placed over Another in 163. 
 
1*76 May. [Book Vl 
 
 To turne hit with. To sauour so or so 
 Hit may be maad with puttyng to pygment, 
 Or pepur, or sum other condyment. 
 
 May. 79. [fol. 91.] 
 De examinibviS apum augmentatis. x coj^itulum. 
 
 Of been the swarmys now bigynne encrese, 
 Now in the honycombe is bred the bee, 170 
 
 The grete bridde — and kynges douteless 
 Men sayn they been, but Grekis sayn they be 
 Clept oestros — and good is hem to sle, 
 ffor they the swarm vnrestith, so they crie. 
 Now as is taught [yit] sle the buttirflye. 175 
 
 Be pauimentis in solarijs faciendis. xj ca>^. 
 
 At Mayes eende a solar is to paue. 
 And rather not, lest frostis hit enfecte. 
 A double cours of boording first hit haue, 
 Oon transuersal, another cours directe. 
 With chaf or fern this boordis do be tecte, 180 
 
 And tlierupon do stonys hondful grete. 
 And wel foottempred raorter theron trete. 
 Then with a barre^ inbete hit, batte hit ofte, 
 And playne hit rough; but er hit fully drie, 
 Brik bipedal chaneled^ bringe on lofte, 185 
 
 This floor that be suffising forto wrie. 
 The chanels fynger gret thou most espie 
 On eueryhalf this brik too feet of brede, 
 That jyme and oil the ioynt to gidre lede. 
 This scyment, brik, stoon, cley, togeder drie 190 
 
 And knytte into oon, til [n]oon humour be thrynne. 
 "Now yote on that scyment clept testacye* 
 Six fynger thikke, and yerdis is no synne 
 
 169 Ms. of b. now the s. bigynne, JB of b. the s. nowe b. 
 171 Ms. doutless, B doutelees. 175 Ms. omits yit, B yit slee. || 
 Bight margin: 75, e 191 noon] Ms. oon, B noon. 
 
 1 vecte. 2 canaoulatum (canaliculatum). 3 testacium. 
 
Book VI] May. Ill 
 
 To alto flappe hit with. Now brode & thynne 
 Tilette^ or tabulette^ of marbul stoon 195 
 
 Emprfisse, and neuer shal this werk agoon. 
 
 De lateribua faciendis. Duodecimum capitulum. [fol. 9 1 a.] 
 
 NOW brik is maad of white erthe or rubrike 
 Or cley^, for that is maad in somer heete 
 To sone is drie, and forto chyne is like. 
 Thus make hem: sifted* erthe and chaf^ to trete 200 
 And tempre longe, and, fourmed, sonne outswete 
 Thumour; turne hem; too feet long euery brik 
 Be and oon foote brood, iiij vnches thik. 
 
 De rosato. xiij ea"'. De oleo liliacio. xiiij ca^. 
 
 In sestres sixe of oold wyn, purged rose, 
 Thre dayes first, v pound is forto do; 205 
 
 The XXX*'' day x pound hony dispose 
 In hit, wel scomede first, and vse hit so. 
 Take x pound oyl; x lilies therto 
 Be do, and xl dales sette hit throute^ 
 In glaas^, & maad hit is, no lenger doute. 210 
 
 De oleo roseo. xv ca^. De rodomelle. xvj cw^. 
 
 In euery pound of oil an vnce of rose 
 Ypurged putte, and hange hit dayes seuen 
 In Sonne and- mone, and after Oilderose® 
 Me may baptize and name hit cording euen. 
 And xl dayes to biholde on heuen, 215 
 
 In luce of rose a sester that wel smelle, 
 A pound hony, and name hit rodomelle. 
 
 De rosis viridibus seruandis. xvij ca"". 
 
 Take roses that bigynneth forto vnclose. 
 And cleue a reed that stont & growith grene; 
 Do theyni theryn and let hit on hem close; 220 
 
 196 Bight margin: yperbole. 198 Ms. ffor. 214 Ms. 
 
 acording, B cording. 218 Bubric] Ms. seruendis, B servandis. 
 
 1 tesellas. 2 tabulas. 3 crcta. i cribratum. B 
 6 despumati. 7 sub diuo. 8 vitro. 9 oleum roseum. 
 
 12 
 
178 May. [Book Vl 
 
 Thus til thee list, hem wol this reed sustene. 
 Other condite hem kepe in pottes clene 
 With pyk munyte & couching throute^ alway. 
 August in houris cordyng is with May. 
 
 May. 80. [fol. 92.] 
 De horis Maij et Augusti. xviij capitnlum. 
 
 Half pryme hath xxiij feet, and pryme 2i!5 
 
 Hath xiiij, and half vndron hath but ix; 
 High vndron vj, and iiij hath mydday tyme. 
 And noon hath iij. Now Phebus wol declyne 
 Tort Occident, and lenger lemys^ shyne. 
 Thyn afternoon to thy fornoon confournie 230 
 
 In feet from hour tyl hour, as is the fourme. 
 Deo gracias. 
 
 Lo May is ronne away in litil space — 
 
 The tonge is short, and longe is his sentence. 
 
 fforride y se my gide and hym y trace. 
 
 As he as swyft to be yit y dispence. 235 
 
 Sone o[f] God allone, o Sapience, 
 
 Hope, of synys drope or fraude immuyn, 
 
 Louynge y to The synge as my science 
 
 Kan do, and forth y go to. werk At luyn. 
 
 226 Lat. Hora II et X, pedes XIII. 229 Left margin: 
 
 sincopa. 236 Ms. o, B of. 
 
 1 sub diuo. 2 vel lemys (? for bemys as in B). 
 
YII. 
 lUYN. 
 
 De area ad trituram paranda. Primum cajpitulum. 
 
 At luyn a floor for thresshing thus thei make: 
 They pare hit first, and lightly after gete 
 Hit doluen snial; and chaf therto they take, 
 Oildreggis^ fresh thei tenipur with & trete 
 Hit euen playn abrood. This helpith whete 5 
 
 ffrom auntys^ & fro mys.^ Now pibbul stoonys 
 They bete in and other that cordyng stoon ys. 
 And aftir suffre they the sonne hit drie. [fol. 92 a.] 
 And this is oon; another wey is fonde, 
 As first the floor to dense and aftir strie 10 
 
 Hit al with weet; and so wel weet the londe, 
 Do beestis smale in hit to stire and stonde, 
 And make hem rowte abowte & trede & strayne 
 Hit wel; and so to drie hit they complayne.'' 
 
 De messibm. Secundum capitulum. 
 
 NOW gynneth barly rape'' and is tanende" 15 
 
 Er theer' to breke and shede hit; for as whete 
 Hit is not clad uer cloked side and eende. 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses. 16 Ms. ffor. 17 Ms. 
 
 croked, B cloked. 
 
 1 amurcam. 2 formicis. 3 muribiis. i coniplanant. ^ messis. 
 
 6 consummanda. ' spica. 
 
 12* 
 
180 tuyn. [Book Vll 
 
 Oon daywerk^ of a good ripman^ may gete 
 
 V strik; a feebuller for iij may swete. 
 
 And, that the corn may grete, vppon the grounde, 20 
 
 They sayn, is good to lete [hit] ly vnbounde. 
 
 This monys eende, in placis nygh the see 
 
 And hoot and drie, is gonnen repyng whete. 
 
 But first, yf hit be ripe, is forto se 
 
 If al the lond attonys rody grete, 25 
 
 Enclyne, and thonke vnlaced so for hete. 
 
 The playner part of ffraunce a craft hath fonde 
 
 To repe in litel space a world of londe. 
 
 Oon oxis werk al heruest vp shal take 
 
 With litel mannes help, and in this wise: 30 
 
 A squared carre on whelis too they make, 
 
 And borde hit bredyng vp of certeyn sise. 
 
 That tort the brinke hit brede alway & rise. 
 
 His chaule aforn, that shal ete vp the whete. 
 
 Is not right, high, but so [of] euen mete. 35 
 
 luyn. 81. [fol. 93.] 
 That iowe^ is toothed thicke as the mesure 
 Of eres* wol not passe hem vpward bende. 
 And bakward, beth twey thilles^ maad ful sure; 
 And forward hath a drey; and in that ende 
 An meke ox that wol drawe, & stonde, & wende 40 
 Wei yoked be; and forward make hit fare, 
 And euery corn* wole start into this chare;' 
 This teeth wole bite hem so, that beth bifornys. 
 And fere hem in. The drouer* ay in kynde 
 Do lifte & lethe, as lough & high the corn is, 45 
 That shal trippe in, the chaf fletyng bihynde. 
 
 21 Ms. lete ly, B lete it 1. 25 Sight Margin: Meta- 
 
 phora. 27 Ms. fraunce. 35 Ms. omits of, B of. 44 Bight 
 margin: paragoge. 39 ende] written eende, and first e partly 
 
 1 una opera. 2 messoris. 3 s. tabula anterior. * spicarum. 
 B temones. ^ vel mon. '^ vehiculum. 8 bubulco. 
 
Book VII] luyn. 181 
 
 Thus shal an ox in dayes fewe vpwynde 
 An heruest al. This carre is thus to cary 
 In feld lond playn, ther chaf nys necessari. 
 
 De agris proscindendis, vineis occandis &c. iij capitulum. 
 
 In coldest lond thing left vndon in May^ 50 
 
 May now be doon, as feeldes me may plowe. 
 In grasy^ cold lond, vynes rootes may^ 
 Ek now be wrie. Ek now the iicches rowe* 
 Collect may be; and feyngreek doun to rowe^ 
 ffor fodder* now is tyme, and euery puis' 55 
 
 Ther lond is cold is heruest now to huls.* 
 Now potage® ware in askes mynge, and kepe 
 In oil barelles^" or salt tubbis^^ done; 
 Saad cleyed wel, they saaf beth leyd to slepe. 
 Now benys in decresyng of the mone, 60 
 
 Br day and er she rise, Ypplucked sone, 
 Maad clene, and sette vp wel refrigerate, 
 ffrom grobbis^^ saaf wol kepe vp their estate. 
 Lupyne also collect is in this mone; [fol. 93a.] 
 And yf me wolle, anoon hit may be sowe, 65 
 
 Eight from the floor, as fast as hit is done. 
 But fer away fro humour hit bistowe 
 In that garner that stont not ouerlowe. 
 To kepe hem longe; and rathest yf the smeke^,* 
 Perpetuel vppon their dwellyng reke. 70 
 
 De diuersis herbis serendis. iiij capitulum. 
 
 Brasike is sowe at stondyng of the sonne; 
 And at the hed of Aust hit is to plaunt 
 In londis wete, or ellis rayn bironne. 
 And ache also is sowen come deuaunt; 
 
 53 Ms. biwrie, B be wrie. 54 Ms. feyngreel, B fayn- 
 
 greel. Ms. do, B to. 74 Bight margin: 72; h. 
 
 1 Maio. 2 herbosa. 3 possunt. * rugosam. 5 g. resecare. 
 6 s. pabulo. '' legumina. 8 cum strepitu metere. 9 lenticulam. 
 10 vasis olearijs. U salsamentarijs. 12 gtwgulionibtw, 13 fxmus. 
 
182 luyn. [Book 711 
 
 Bete & radich exerciseth their haunt; 75 
 
 Letuce and coriander, yf me wete 
 
 Her lond, vpgroweth now this herbis sete.^ 
 
 De pomis, de ftore punici So. v ca;3itulum. 
 
 Yet may the pomgarnates flour enclude 
 An erthen potte, as twye is taught biforn, 
 To make a pome of mighty magnitude. 80 
 
 Now peris, melis^ ouerthicke, ar torn 
 Away the vicious, lest luce ylorn 
 On hem shulde be, that gentyl fruyt myght spende. 
 Now zizifus in cold lond wole ascende. 
 The figtre, as forseith his disciplyne, 85 
 
 This mone in ceson is to capnfie. 
 Now haue y wist men graffe hem viij or ix"**. 
 Now peche in places cold is putte in theye.* 
 The plaunte of palm men vmbideluyng hie. 
 In luyl and now solempne insition 90 
 
 Hath treen, that men calle emplastration. 
 
 luyn. 82. [fol. 94.] 
 Emplasturyng accordith with the tre 
 That hath a luce of fatnesse in the rynde. 
 As figge, olyue, and other suche be; 
 Ek Marcial seith peche is of that kyndc. 95 
 
 Thus Jiit is doon, as we in bokes fynde: 
 Of feirest treen loke vp the brauwches clere. 
 That fertilest and fresshest yonge appere; 
 Yndir the fresshest gemme.al subtily, 
 That gemme vnhurt, with yron reise a rynde. 100 
 The tre that shal emplastred be therby 
 
 75 Bight margin: 73; g, h. 77 sete] followed by vel swete 
 in both M.1S. 78 Bight margin : ypalage. 79 Bight margin ; 
 90, d. 77, d. 85 Bight margin: 64; e, f, g, h. 92 Bubrir 
 
 cator has omitted the small initial. 97 Ms. vpon, B uppe (Lat. 
 circumsignabis). 
 
 1 salubres. 2 mela. '^ inoculatwr. 
 
Book VII] luyn. 183 
 
 Taak of the gemme and barke, and tlierto bynde 
 This gemme vnhurt, and so in boondis wynde 
 Hit softe; his gemme aboue al that excede; 
 Oon gemme as for another so succede. 105 
 
 Do donge vppon and vmbe^ on euery side, 
 And bynde hit to. The bowes of that tre 
 That heier beth, let hewe of or diuyde 
 Away; and daies xx let hit be. 
 Vnbynde hit thenne, and ther expertly se 110 
 
 How oon tre is intil another ronne. 
 Thus better fruyt of bitter fruyt is wonne. 
 De vitulis casirandis, de casio, & ouium tonsura. m capitulum. 
 
 Ek in this mone is maad castracion 
 Of calues, as is taught alite aforn. 
 Therynne is subtil operacion, 115 
 
 In memory wel worthy to be born. 
 And craft to make cheses be not lorn 
 But used now. And now in placis colde 
 Solempnite of sheryng sheep is holde. 
 
 De apibus, cera, mella, &c. vij capitulum. [fol. 94a.J 
 
 And in this mone is ek castracion 120 
 
 Of hyues ronke of hony fild, the summe^ 
 "Wherof is this significacion. 
 Al subtilly and smale yf that they summe/ 
 Al hugely and haske'' yf that they humme, 
 As houses holgh their voices multiplye, 125 
 
 A signe is that their combes beth ful drie. 
 The dranes^ ek, that beth this bees grete, 
 To drawen out with gret attencioun, 
 
 112 first fruyt written above in same hand. 114 Right 
 
 margin: 77; f, g, h. \X1 Right margin: 78; e, &c. per totum. 
 
 119 Right margin: 78; c, d. 127 Verses 127 — 238 are wanting 
 in B, two leaves of the Ms. having been lost. The missing folios 
 are the last one of gathering "l" (88) and the first of gathering 
 "m" (89). 
 
 1 circa, 2 gumma. 3 murmureut. i rauce. ° fucos. 
 
184 luyn. [Book VII 
 
 Is preef that they beth riped hony swete. 
 
 Thenne in this wise is maad castracioun : 130 
 
 Erly, when they slepe in their stacioun, 
 
 With smoke of galbane & drie ox[en]donge 
 
 Bismoke hem in their beddis, old & yonge. 
 
 This smoke is maad with colis in a thing ^ 
 
 Ymouthed^ streit to puffe^ on hem this smoke, 135 
 
 ffor noye of whom they fle fro their dwelling, 
 
 That combes may be coruen out or broke,* 
 
 The fifthe part leuyng for hem vnbroke* 
 
 To fede hem on. But tho that roted are, 
 
 Or vicious to take away ne spare. 140 
 
 Thus hony is confecte: combes* congest 
 
 In clennest cloth, a diligence expresse, 
 
 The brood & roten combes out ykest, 
 
 ffor they therto wole bringe a bittirnesse; 
 
 ffresh hony dales fewe after the presse 145 
 
 To colde & to be scommed opon muste' 
 
 Stond, vntil hit coloured be lyk muste.* 
 
 luyn. 83. [fol. 95.] 
 That hony that goth out with no distresse 
 Is nobilest. The wex ek now we make: 
 The combes that beth come out of the presse 150 
 A ponne of water feruent hoot intake; 
 Thenne in a vessel waterles a kake 
 Of hit be maad. Now in this monys ende 
 The swarmes® yonge outgoth — keper attende, 
 Thou must be war: their hertis beth ful lyght,^° 155 
 And er me wite, anoon thei are ago. 
 A day or too on trees wol thei light; 
 In hyues thenne anoon is hem to do. 
 Til viij or ix awayte hem, go not fro; 
 
 132 Ms. oxdonge. 133 Ms. bismore. 
 
 1 s. vase. 2 ha6«ns os angustum. -3 vel blowe. * frangi. 
 6 jntegram. 6 fani. 7 oportet. ^ musto. 9 examina. lOvagancia. 
 
Book VII J luyn. 185 
 
 That hour apast, they beth not wont to fle; 160 
 
 Yet summe outgoth, and fast agoon they be. 
 
 Tf they wol fle, this is a verry token, 
 
 That dales too or iij thei noyse and here; 
 
 Herken theron, and do their cast be broken. 
 
 Yet wol they noyse, yf they shal fight yfere, 165 
 
 But therfro dust or watermeth wol stere 
 
 Hem, spronge in the batail or in this fray; 
 
 The trewge is maad and mater take In day. 
 
 Concord amonge this cosyns to repare 
 
 Among hem Is a swete auctorite. 170 
 
 By Goddis myght apposed when they are, 
 
 And dwelle vpon a bough or where It be, 
 
 And alle In oon suspense yf that me se, 
 
 Oon king ther is, or klnges beth acorded 
 
 That oon shal regne, and alle on hym be lorded. 175 
 
 And yf thei honge on pappes ij or iij, [fol. 95a.] 
 
 This is a signe amonge hem that discord is. 
 
 And vche an oost^ vndir their kynges be. 
 
 Ek ther is grettest prees,^ the grettest lord is. 
 
 Be prudent now for pesing this discordis; 180 
 
 "With modirwort^ or ache* ennoynt an honde 
 
 To seche; and thus the kinges may be fonde: 
 
 A litel more and longer of stature. 
 
 And straughter thied than another bee,'' 
 
 Not wynged greet; in colour shynyng pure, 185 
 
 And smothe", vnrough — yet of that aged be 
 
 A maner hery wombe a man may se, 
 
 Wherwith they hurtith not. The ruggy^ lordis 
 
 Of broun colour be slayn for this discordis. 
 
 164 Ms. caft; the ( looks as if it had been altered from s. 
 165 wol] first written wole, then e erased. 181 Left margin: 
 
 melisophillo, vel melissa, vel berewort. 
 
 1 6xerc\ius. 2 i;el folk. 3 melissa. i apis. B ape. 6 leuis 
 sine pilis. ' hirsuti (Ms. hufuti). 
 
186 luyn. [Book VII 
 
 But touche not this other nobul kingis, 190 
 
 With alle his folk but he be vagabounde 
 
 Imprudently; and thenne of plucke her wynges. 
 
 This doon, his puple wole at home abounde; 
 
 And whi? ffor to the pees their lord is bounde. 
 
 But yf hit happe so ther be no swarmys, 195 
 
 A remedy to seche vppon that harm is. 
 
 The multitude of hyues ij or iij 
 
 Bringe intil oon, and with a licour swete 
 
 Bisprynge hem. Ek enclosid must thei be 
 
 Thre dayes & yfed with metes seete, 200 
 
 And brethingholes^ smale is hem to gete. 
 
 And yf an hous in pestilence is slayn 
 
 Almest, me may hem thus repare ayeyn: 
 
 luyn. 84. [fol. 96.] 
 Biholde in othir nygh hem that abounde, 
 The wex combis in their extremyte, 205 
 
 And hem amonge that beth with brood fecunde; 
 Se where is the kingis natiuite; 
 He and his puple out ybroken be, 
 And in that other doon. The kyng is knowe 
 Bi like a pappe a litel out ygrowe. 210 
 
 Whan he, the kyng, and they their [lydde] vndo 
 So nygh their birth, translate hem, lest thei dye 
 Translatid erst. Bk yf a swarm vpgo. 
 Let beten bras or shordis on hem crie; 
 To house or tre goth they. Then mellifie 215 
 
 And herbe a newe hous. They with truUe or honde 
 Indoon and peesid, may with other stonde. 
 
 De pauimentis. vHj copitulum. De fructuum ventatorum 
 expetientiii. ix capitulum. 
 
 P anient and brik is now maad as biforn 
 Is taught. The Grekis seyn thegipcians haue 
 
 211 Ms. their vndo {Lat. erosis cooperoulis). 212 Ms. 
 
 deye. 218 Bight margin: 73; f, g, h. 
 
 1 spiraculi. 
 
Book VII J luyn. 187 
 
 Experience of euery seed and corn, '220 
 
 What wol perish, what wol himseluen saue. 
 
 Of euery greyne into a bord^ they graue, 
 
 Wei dolue and weet, in rysyng of the sterre , 
 
 Oanyculer — God knowith yf they erre. 
 
 By rewle of Rome hit rist at Aust Kalende 225 
 
 In X & iiij;^ aboute her tabul thenne 
 
 They stonde, and so the spronkes that ascende, 
 
 What wol abide, and what wol shrymme & brenne. 
 
 Thus noteth they the better seed, and whenne 
 
 Ther sowyng tyme is come, vppou they sowe 230 
 
 The best, and leueth suche as wole not growe. 
 
 De oleo camamiUino. x capituluin. Be oenante. xi capitulum. 
 
 Of goldon myddil flour in camomylle^ [fol. 96a.] 
 Vppon an vnce, a pounde of oile be ronne; 
 But leues white is noon to do thertille; 
 So xl dales sette' hit in the sonne; 235 
 
 Now kepe hit feire, oilcamamylle is wonne. 
 Now flouring grapes wilde vndewed strie 
 In sunne, vntil the flour wol of for drie. 
 So sifte"* hit that the greynes stille abide 
 Inwith the sine, and flouris doun to shake; 240 
 
 This flouris smale into hony swettest slyde. 
 And therof xxx dales let hem take 
 Ynough; and thenne vptempuryng, forsake 
 Noman for hem to make into their kynde. 
 As of rosate is taught, yf ye haue mynde. 245 
 
 Be dlfica, [Buajdecimum capitulum. 
 
 Alfike is maad with barly half mature, 
 A party ^ grene, and vppon repes* bounde, 
 And in a oone' ybake & maad tendure,^ 
 
 245 Bight margin: 79; f. 246 Bubric] Ms. Quarlum d. 
 
 1 aream. 2 xiiij. 3 camomilli. i cribelles. B partim. 6 fas- 
 ciculjs, '' furoo. 8 ijidurare, 
 
188 luyn. [Book VII 
 
 That lightly on a querne^ hit may be grounde. 
 Now til a strike, a litel salt infounde 250 
 
 As hit is grounde; and kepe hit, theryn boote is. 
 This luyn and luyl acord in houris footis. 
 
 De horis. [Tertiumjdecimum capitulum. 
 
 Half prime on xxij*' feet, hool prime 
 On xij; half vndern viij, hool vndern v; 
 Midday on iiij, and noon on ij feet by me 255 
 
 Stont fast ynough. Now Phebus chare vp thriue 
 No lenger may; til thoccident asbliue 
 Enclyneth hit as erst from thest hit wried;^ 
 fforthi beth feet with houris multiplied. 
 
 Deo gracias. 
 Septimus in fine liber est. Assumptus ab igne. 
 Ingentis studii honore sanciii. 
 
 85. [fol. 97.] 
 Now luyn is do. Saluz, blisse, ymne, honour, 260 
 loy, iubile, power, and diademe, 
 lesu, be to The, lesse rotis fflour, 
 In maieste that art to sitte and deme. 
 So to Ts se, that in that hour extreme 
 Thy prison, belle, al cloos from vs be lokon, 265 
 And we with The dwellynge. Yet must y yeme 
 This book, and telle At luyl of lond vpbrokon. 
 
 251 boots] added above. 253 Biibric] Ms. Quintum d. 
 255 iiij] The Latin of Schneider's text has iii and no variants are 
 recorded. 259 In the Latin following the ,Deo gratias" the 
 
 word sanctii is expanded from an abbreviation very like the one 
 usually employed for sancti, but, as it is written over an erasure 
 and is badly blotted, it is very difficult to tell what it stands for, 
 especially as some words appear to have been omitted after studii. 
 There is nothing in B corresponding. 
 
 1 mola. 2 ijel stied. 
 
YIIL 
 lUYL 
 
 Be iterandis agris. Be messe triticea. Primum capitulum. 
 
 At luyl the lond vpbroken in Aprile 
 Is eft to plowe, and sone is best his seson. 
 Whete heruest now in tewipur lond is while' 
 ffoEto conclude, and bi the forseid reson. 
 Now make the feeldis wilde of busshis geson; 5 
 
 Now stocke vp groue & tre in wanyng mone; 
 Their rootis eek to brenne is now to done. 
 Now treen that han among the cornys growe, 
 The corn away, adoun hit is to caste ^. 
 Oon dayes werk may twenty ouerthrowe. 10 
 
 Now vynes yonge ydoluen firste and laste 
 Wolde be (but not in hete) and pouder caste. 
 Er the Canyculer, the hounde, ascende 
 Haue vp the fern* and seggis* to be brende. 
 
 [fol. 97a.] 
 Be orti seminibns serendis. Secundum capitulum. 
 
 Smale oynouns now beth sowe in placis colde 15 
 And wete, ek radish and arage"; yf ye 
 
 1 In right margin opposite Bubric: luyl. I| T/m initial A 
 embraces six verses. || Ms. vnbroken, B vpbroken. 
 
 1 tempus. 2 prosternere. 3 filicem. 4 caricem. 5 atriplex. 
 
190 luyl. [Book VllI 
 
 May watter hit, basilicon^ wol holde; 
 Letuce and malwis, betis, lekis, be 
 To -waiter now. The neep^ in weet lend we 
 Now sowe, and rape in roten londis rare; 20 
 
 In weet lond and in feeldis glaad they are. 
 But neepis* loueth heldis* sondy, drie, 
 And thynne. Bk of the londis propurtee 
 Ereyther seed of other multiplye. 
 A wonder thing a man may often see: 25 
 
 Too yeer yf neep in sum lond sowen be, 
 Hit wole be rape, and rape in sum lond sowe 
 Wol therayeyn vp into neepis growe. 
 Deep donged lond yturned wel they loue — 
 That plesith hem & cornes that there growe. 30 
 
 An aker lond iiij sester rape aboue 
 And V of neep is sufflsaunt to sowe, 
 ffor ouerthicke hit is not hem to strowe; 
 And yf they be to thicke, awey thou trete 
 A part, and so that other wol be grete. 35 
 
 And forto ha the rapis seedes grete 
 Let pulle first the rape out of the grounde; 
 The foiles are of hit away to gete — 
 Amydde his caule at half a fynger rounde 
 Let smyte hem of, and plaunte hem forto abourade 40 
 Viij fynger fro. Thus wol they growe in longe 
 And, as y wene, her seedis shulde be stronge. ' 
 
 luyl. 86. [fol. 9S.] 
 De implastracione. iij capitulum. 
 
 Solempnyte hath emplastracioun, 
 Wherof biforn is taugh[t] the diligence. 45 
 
 Now haue y maad inoculacioun 
 Of pere and appultre; thexperience 
 
 38 foiles] has tag at bottom so that it looTcs a little like 
 a. 43 Bight margin: ypalage. 44 Bight margin: 81; h, 
 
 & 82 ; a, b, c. 45 Ms. taugh. 
 
 1 ocium {ocymum). 2 napos. 3 napi. * dovexa. 
 
Book VIIIJ luyl. 191 
 
 Hath preued well. Of wynter fruyt science 
 
 Yet leseth.^ out the smale, vnto the grete 
 
 So that the tree may sende her drynke & mete. 
 
 Now plaunted y sciouns^ of citurtre 50 
 
 In cold and wete, and wattred hit so lon'ge 
 
 That forth they come in gret felicite. 
 
 The figtre now teneye' hit is no wronge 
 
 In weet lond; citur graffed wol be spronge, 
 
 And palmes delue aboute amyd this mone; 55 
 
 Almaundis ripith now — go gete hem sone. 
 
 De armentis et gregibus admittendis. iiij copitulum. 
 
 NOW shal the bole his wyuys to hym take, 
 And fille her wombe, in monthis x tanende 
 [Their] tyme of birthe at veer; for now thei wake 
 Al fresh, for veer their Venus brond hath tende. 60 
 Xv of hem oon male is forto ascende, 
 As tellith Columelle, and wol content. 
 Yet yf thei be to fatte, her werk is shent. 
 
 In placis ther is fodder abondaunce, ' 
 
 The ky may otherwhiles be withdrawe. 65 
 
 Mete in mesure her caluyng wol auaunce. 
 
 Ek in the plough perchaunce yf thei shal drawe, 
 
 Vche other yeer thei may go to by lawe, 
 
 And so shal thei for either werk endure. 
 
 That is to seie, to labour and feture. 70 
 
 Now putte among [the shepe] their tuppis * whyte, [fol. 98a.] 
 
 Not oonly wolled, but also their tonge; 
 
 Yf hit be spotty, that a man may wite 
 
 Yf he bigete^ hym spotty lombis yonge. 
 
 Yet sumtyme of the white are other spronge, 75 
 
 50 Bight margin: orenge quaere. 59 Ms. omits Their, 
 
 B Thaire. 60 Ms. ffor. 65 Stroke between ky and may. 
 
 71 Ms. omits the shepe, B the Shepe. 
 
 1 eligit. 2 taleas. 3 inoculare. 4 arietes. ^ gignat. 
 
192 luyl. [Book VIII 
 
 But Columelle, he seith of tuppis blake 
 
 White sheep nature is neuer wont to make. 
 
 The tuppe is chosun fair of altitude, 
 
 Ywombe[d] side, & tecte in whitest wolle^, 
 
 A besom tail holdyng his longitude, 80 
 
 Yfrounted large, and stoned at the fuUe. 
 
 ffrom youthe vntil viij yeris old thei woUe^ 
 
 "Wei do this craft; and she from yeris tweyne 
 
 V yeer is good, and thenne is she bareyne. 
 
 Yboned large, ek longe & softist flesis,'^ 85 
 
 And they that wide wolly wombed be ■ — 
 
 Suche ewes^ to thy tuppis out to chese is. 
 
 Of pasturyng they must haue vberte, 
 
 ffro breris fer, for their iniquite 
 
 This sely innocentis wole vnclothe, 90 
 
 And wellesay to tere her skynnys bothe. 
 
 Now let hem do, by wynter to be stronge. 
 
 Mails to make, as seith the philosopher, 
 
 Septemtrion pasturis let hem fonge; 
 
 And toward that wynd yf the tuppis ^ ofre^ 95 
 
 With litel malis fiUith they the cofre ', 
 
 And toward southwynd getith they femalis. 
 
 Yf hit be sooth, right notabul this tale is. 
 
 luyl. 87. [fol. 99.J 
 In heruest putte away thi feebul sheepe, 
 As thus they may be sold or ellis spende. 100 
 
 A coitu twey monthis summen keepe 
 Her raam vntil Cupido be wel tende, 
 And summen let hem al the yeer ascende 
 And indistinct; so dayes short & longe 
 Ther shal not lacke hem tender lombis yonge. 105 
 77 Ms. forto, B wonte to. 79 Ms. ywombe, B ywomb- 
 
 ed. 89 Ms. ffor. 96 After cofre: vel matricem. 
 
 103 3Is. althe, B alle the. 104 so] preceeded hy \\ in Ms. 
 
 1 lana. 2 volunt. 3 vellera. 4 oues. 5 arietes. ^ v6l profre. 
 7 ventrem. 
 
Book Vlll] luyl. Idc! 
 
 De extirpando gramine. v ca^itulum. 
 
 NOW with the Crabbe inhabityng the Sonne, 
 The mone of vj in Capricorn ysette, 
 Yf gresse ypuld vp be, the lond is wonne. 
 Ek cipur* tongis^ with gootis blood wette, 
 And colis from the furneys yf me fette 110 
 
 Bispreynt with gootis blood — the grassis rowe 
 With these yf me fordo, thei shal not growe. 
 
 De vino seilUte. vj capitulum. 
 
 And wynsquyllite is thus maad in this mone: 
 The mountayn squylle other of nygh the see, 
 As riseth the Canyculer assone, 115 
 
 Wei fer away fro sonne ydried be; 
 A stene of wyn a poundis quantite 
 Of hem resceyue, alle leuys superflu 
 Ikest away, and they that paled greu. 
 And other garlande' hem, & so depende, 120 
 
 Into the wyn so they go not to depe. 
 And take hem out at xl*' dales eende. 
 This wyn is good the cough* away to kepe, 
 Al ille out of the wombe hit makith crepe, 
 Hit solueth fleume and helpith splenetyk, 125 
 
 Digestioun hit macth and eyon quyk. 
 
 De ydromelle. Septimum capitulum. [fol. 99 a.] 
 
 For meth, in risyng of Canyculer 
 A sester of vnscomed hony do 
 In sestris vj of welle water cleer. 
 In carenayres nakid^ childrin go 130 
 
 And glocke hit oures v to & fro, 
 Vessel and al; and aftir in the sonne 
 With XXX*' dayis sto[n]dyng hit is wonne. 
 
 115 Canyculer] mark after r that looks like s. 118 superflu] 
 
 erasure of some letter after u — e or s? 119 greu] two 
 
 dots over u. 130 Left margin: carenaruro est vas murti. 
 133 Ms. stodyng, B standying. 
 
 1 ciprei. 2 bidentes. 3 faciunt ferta (sic). * tussum. 6 inuestes' 
 
 13 
 
194 luyl. [Book VIII 
 
 Se aceto sqiiillino. viij capitulum. 
 
 And in this mone is maad aysel squyllyne. 
 Of squyllis whyte, alraw, taak of the hardis, 135 
 And al the rynde is for this no thyng fyne, 
 Thenne oonly take the tender myddilwardis; 
 I[n] sestris xij of aysel that sour hard is, 
 A pound and vncis sixe yshrad be do, 
 And xl** dayes sonnyng stond hit so. 140 
 
 After this xl dayis cloos in sonne, 
 Oast out the squylle & dense feetly wel, 
 And into vessel picched be hit ronne. 
 Another xxx*^ galons of aysel 
 
 With dragmes viij of squylle in oon vessel, 145 
 
 Pepur an vnce, of case & mynte asmaP^ 
 Wol do, and vse in tyme as medcynal. 
 
 Se Sinapi. ix capitulum. 
 
 Asester and a semycicle take 
 Of senuey seed, & grynde hit pouder smal; 
 V pound of hony theruppon thou slake; 150 
 
 Of Spaynysh oil a pound do therwithal; 
 A sester of fyn eysel tempur shal 
 This thingis grounden well; thus vse hit longe. 
 This luyl & luyn haue houris euen longe. 
 
 luyl. 88. [fol. 100.] 
 De horis. Decimum capitulum. 
 
 Oon goth on xxij with xj, 155 
 
 And ij with x on xij feet gooth blyue; 
 Ek iij with ix on viij extendith euen. 
 And iiij as viij abregged is to v. 
 To V and vij leueth iij aliue, 
 
 138 Ms. I, B In. 141 Space for initial filled in with 
 
 ordinary capital. 155 Ms. Non {guide for rubricator is also 
 
 n), B Oon. 
 
 1 aliquantulum. 
 
Book 7IIIJ luyl. 195 
 
 And manly vj, in myddis of the day, 160 * 
 
 Stont forth an hour, and Tppon feet but tway. 
 
 Deo gracias, 
 Explicit octauus liber & Princeps. 
 
 Thus luyl is doon, August y must bygynne. 
 
 tryne and oon God, Lord, record y The; 
 
 That sensis spille, or poynt disioynt be thrynne 
 
 Is not my wille, and yit in hit is she 165 
 
 Myn ignoraunce; and why, noot y; but he 
 
 That she myschaunce — he pricke or nicke hit theer — 
 
 Thy prince y mene; as mene or nought hit be 
 
 He rynce, yf Aust be faust Nygh Septembeer. 
 
 Explicit etc.] After Princeps some words have been erased. 
 
 13* 
 
De agris exilibus arandis & vindemia paranda. i capituluni. 
 
 Nygh Septembur Kalende, at Austis ende, 
 
 Ther feeldes playn, humyde, and lene be, 
 
 To gynne plowe is good to condescende. 
 
 And also now in coostis of the see 
 
 Vyndage arayed fore is forto se. 5 
 
 In placis ek ther hit is passyng colde, 
 
 The vynes roote ywrien be fayn wolde. 
 
 De exili ct misera vinea. Secnndum capitulam. [fol. 100a.] 
 
 In Aust ek, yf the vyneyerd be lene 
 And she, thy vyne, a ruthful thing to so, 
 Thre stryk or iiij of lupynes demene 10 
 
 On vche aker; so let hit wrion be. 
 Whenne hit is vppe and hath fertilite, 
 Turne hit eft in, hit dongith best the vynys — 
 Al other donge is infectif of wynys. 
 
 De pampinandis & obumhrandis vitibus. iij capitulum. 
 
 NOW ther is cold is pampinacioun 15 
 
 To ouertake a thicke yleued vyne; 
 And ther is hoot is occupacioun 
 
 1 In right margin opposite rubric: Aust. |i There is no 
 initial in Ms. 
 
Book IX] Aiist. 197 
 
 The feruent ire^ of Phebus co declyne 
 
 With obumbracioun, yf so benygne 
 
 And loughly be the vyne hit not to werne^. 
 
 Ek now is good to pulle vp segge* and feme*. 20 
 
 De urendis pascuis. iiij eapitulum. 
 
 Pasturis ek in this mone is to brenne 
 That busshus, ther they growith ouerhie 
 And bisie beth the lond to ouerrenne, 
 This brennyng may their stook & hem destrie. 25 
 Ek yf the lond be wrie in herbis drie, 
 Now brenne hem vp, and eft they wole arise 
 Al glaad, araied newe in fresshest gise. 
 
 De herbis in orto. v Mpitulum. 
 
 NOW rape and neep in places drie is sowe, 
 As taught is erst, and radish last this mone 30 
 At drie is sowe, in wynter forto growe; 
 In lond solute & faat hit growith soone. 
 With ragston'* or with clay hit nath to done. 
 But glad is hit to loke on drunkun ayer; 
 In beddis brood and deepe hit wol be feir. bo 
 
 Aust. 89. [fol. 101.] 
 In grauel best after a novul rayn 
 They growe, and weet hem yf thyn ayer be drie. 
 Anoon as hit is sowen, wrie hit playn; 
 Too sester in oon aker is to strie. 
 And iiij, as other sayn, wol multiplie. 40 
 
 And chaf is bettir for hem than is donge, 
 ffor they therof wol be right fungous" stronge. 
 Salt watter hem, therof they wol be swete. 
 Radish female hath litel bitternesse. 
 With leues brode & playn, glad, grene & meete; 45 
 
 30 Marginal gloss: 85; e, f, g. 36 Ms. nobul, B novel. 
 
 1 vel heete. 2 vetare. 3 caricem. i filicem. 5 trophis 
 (sic). 6 fungos (sic). 
 
198 Aust. [Book IX 
 
 Their seed to haue as do thi bisynesse. 
 
 And forto make hem wexon in gretnesse 
 
 Vnnethe on hit a litel croppe men leue, 
 
 And sette hit so to growe & gret to preue. 
 
 The swete of that is bitter forto make, 50 
 
 Oon day and nyght the seed in hony stonde, 
 
 Other in meth as longe tyrae hit take. 
 
 Raue as brasyk for vyne as iJle is fonde; 
 
 They so discordith that in oon poort londe 
 
 Wei may they not; for thy oon vtter kepe. 55 
 
 Also this mone is sowyng of pasnepe. 
 
 De pomis. vj cospitulum. De apibus. vij cqpitulum. 
 
 Emplasturyng eke in this mone is do ; 
 And summen now wole graffe a perytre, 
 And citurtre in plaeis moyst also. 
 Now sharnebodde^ encumb[e]rith the bee; 60 
 
 Pursue on hym that slayn anoon he be. 
 The werkis that in luyl be left vndone 
 Now may they take an ende in this Aust mone. 
 
 Be puteis faeiendis. viij capitulum. [fol. 101 a.] 
 
 NOW seche and fynde up water in this wise: 
 Doun lene and ley thy chyn' right to the grounde 65 
 Bstward, and rather [then] the Sonne arise, 
 And where a subtile myst gynneth tabounde 
 And dewe vppon, ther water may be founde; 
 Ther picche a merke, and on the lond taak yeme, 
 Theym good or badde, feir or foul to deme. 70 
 
 The marl hath veynys thynne, vnsmellyng best; 
 Slak^ sonde, lymous and lene, vnswete & depe; 
 Blaak erthe humour not mych hath in his chest 
 Of wynter shoures leyd vp forto kepe, 
 
 53 Ms. al, B ille. || fonde] de over erasure. 59 Bight 
 
 margin: orenge. 60 Ms. encumbrith, B encombreth. 66 Ms. 
 
 omits then, B thenne. 
 
 1 crabrones. 2 mentem. 3 goluta. 
 
Book IX J Aust. 199 
 
 ffor swetly smellith that lond; clayes wepe 75 
 
 Vncerteynly, whos teres beth right swete — 
 
 A man may be right glad that hem may gete. 
 
 In saad send, grauel, and there ek as beth stonys 
 
 Certeyn humour is, and in vbertee; 
 
 Good aboundaunce is ther as rody stoon is — 80 
 
 But war, for they thorgh chynes lightly flee. 
 
 Among flynt stoon at hillis rootis be 
 
 Veynes ynowe, and chillyng cold and seete; 
 
 Ther feeld, hath salt & saad, luke^ and vnswete. 
 
 And yf they sauoure wel, then they bigynne 85 
 
 Vnder the mount. Ek ere among ther be 
 
 Weilis wel cold in playn, ther shadis twynne 
 
 The Sonne away. Yet signes mo men se 
 
 Ther water is, as the fertihtee 
 
 Of withi^ reed^ aller*, yuy^ or vyne" 90 
 
 That ther is water nygh, is verry syne. 
 
 Aust. 90. [fol. 102.] 
 Ther as they growe vpdelue, in latitude 
 Thre foote, and depe v foote into the grounde; 
 And when the sonne adoun goth, there enclude 
 Of leed or bras a vessel clene ygrounde', 95 
 
 Dounward the mouth, vpward the bottom rounde; 
 This pitte, ywrien with a fleyke and moolde 
 Vppon, so dwelle vntil the niorow sholde. 
 
 The nexte day the fleyke away thou plie, 
 
 And se yf this vessel withinne swete 100 
 
 Or the dropis therynne multiplie; 
 
 Withouten doute ther wole be water gete. 
 
 A potters potte vneled^ wol alete" 
 
 78 3Is. In saad lond, B Sadde sonde, {Lat. sabulo masculus 
 et arena). 94 adoun] a added above in same hand. 
 
 1 tepide. 2 salicis. 3 arundo. i sdnus. 5 hedera. 6 vitis. 
 7 scoured. 8 nore coctttm. 9 resolui. 
 
200 Aust. [Book IX 
 
 Yf hit be leid theryn the same wise, 
 
 Yf eny sprynge of water ther wole rise. 105 
 
 Ley ther a fleece^ of wulle in lik maneer; 
 
 Yf hit conceyue of humour in oon nyght 
 
 That me may wrynge out of hit water cleer, 
 
 Hit is recorde of water. Ek a light 
 
 In oil by like maner theryn [yjdight, 110 
 
 Yf hit be founde yqueynte, ther is a veyne 
 
 Of water nygh, the nedith not compleyne. 
 
 Ek of a fler ther maad yf smoke ascende 
 
 Al faaty, weet, and cloudy nebulose, 
 
 To make a wynche al sicour ther descende; 115 
 
 ffor to thyn hond wol sprynge or sprynges ose^, 
 
 And spryngis fele into oon may be complose''. 
 
 In hillis feet toward Septemtrioun 
 
 Good humour hath multiplicacioun. 
 
 [fol. 102 a.] 
 
 De puteis faciendis. Nonum capitulum. 
 
 Good is be war the wynchis* when we delue, 1:20 
 ffor cley, alum^, and brymstoon otherwhile, 
 Though brynkis stonde and wol not ouerwhelue-, 
 Enfectith thayer, and deluers so bigile 
 That deed they are inwith a litel while, 
 But yf they flee; for thy er they descende, 125 
 
 A lyght into the wynche may doun be sende; 
 If hit ne quenche, of peril is ther noon; 
 Hit quenchith, lo, the place is pestilent. 
 Another way to this werk is to goon : 
 On either side a pitte most ha descent 130 
 
 Vntil thi sought licouris librament; 
 And ere among into the wynche hem thorle" 
 That wynde away the wickid ayer may horle. 
 109 Ms. dight, JS ydight. 
 
 6 perfores 
 
 J- vellus. 2 scatere. 3 connexe. * puteia (sic). ^ alumem. 
 res. 
 
Book IX J Aust. 201 
 
 This doon, the sidis make vp with structure, 
 
 And footis viij hit holde in latitude. 135 
 
 With barris bigge is good to make hit sure, 
 
 Or walle hit well with ragge or flyntis rude; 
 
 In square or rounde this werk thou may cowclude. 
 
 Yf water ther be lymous or enfecte, 
 
 Admyxtion of salt wol hit correcte. 140 
 
 And yf thi wynche in diggyng wol not stonde 
 
 But now and now be fallyng in the brynke, 
 
 Perauenture hit is so slippyng londe; 
 
 Thenne on another craft thou must bithynke: 
 
 If bordis holde hit out, hit may not synke; 145 
 
 But they must out be born with barris rude, 
 
 ffor doute yf hit thy worchyng men conclude. 
 
 Aust. 91. [fol. 103.] 
 Be aqua probanda. Decimum capitulum. 
 
 His water newe is good a man to preue: 
 Let sprynge hit on a brasen vessel clene, 
 And yf no signe of hit on the bras leue 150 
 
 The droppis here & there apperyng sene. 
 That veyne is good prudently to sustene. 
 Decoct in bras, yf grauel in the ground 
 Noon leue, is preef that that licour is sound; 
 Tf mete in hit wol boyle in litel while, 155 
 
 Yf hit be cleer apperyng like the skie, 
 Withouten wem or signe of thingis vile. 
 Tho wynchis ek that stonde on hillis hie 
 To lower stede as wellis me may trie; 
 This must be doon by persyng the mountayn 160 
 
 The water so to lede into the playn. 
 
 De ague dMCtiftus. Vndecimum eapitulum. 
 
 The water may be led by weyes thre: 
 In chanel[e]s, or conditis of leed. 
 Or ellis in trowis ymaad of tre. 
 
 162 Bubric] Ms. aqua, B aque. 163 Mss. chanels. 
 
202 Aust. [Book IX 
 
 And first in a chanel yf hit be led, 165 
 
 In euery hundrid foot doun from the heed, 
 
 Alite & lite a foote hit must aualo, 
 
 That hit ha myght so doun the clef to hale; 
 
 And yf hit happe an hil thi water mete. 
 
 Let make a lane & thorgh thi licour hale, 170 
 
 Or ellis by the side aboute hym trete. 
 
 And yf hit shulde a falJe into the dale. 
 
 With pills ouer that hit must auale; 
 
 Or make an arche hit ouer on to lede^, 
 
 Or pipis hit to condit me may lede^. 175 
 
 In conditis descende into the slade [fol. 103 a.] 
 
 Hit may, and on that other side arise. 
 
 But holsummest & best is to ha made 
 
 Trumpis" of cley bi potters in their gise; 
 
 And vche of hem ij fynger thicke assise, 180 
 
 Oon ende ymaad so streyne, another sprede. 
 
 That vche into other may an hondis brede. 
 
 Oiltemprid lyme this ioyntis shal scyment; 
 
 Thenne ysels* myxt with litel water renne 
 
 Thorgh, dechyng al this holsum instrument. 185 
 
 The water that gooth thorgh the leden penne^ 
 
 Is rust corrupt, vnholsum; leue hit thenne. 
 
 And yf thy veyne of water be but poore. 
 
 The dwellyng place of hit be maad the moore. 
 
 Be mensuris & 'j)oi%de.rih\}& fistularma. xij capltulum. 
 
 Te leed condit contoyneth this mesure: 190 
 
 Xij hundrid pounde of metal shal suffise 
 A thousand feet in lengthe of pipis sure; 
 And so, whether the lengthe auale or rise, 
 The lesse or more of weght for hit deuyse — 
 
 167 Ms. Alite & alite afoote, B A lite and lite a foote. 
 184 ysels] glossed in left margin: id est askes. 
 
 1 ducere. 2 plumbare. 3 tubas. ^ fauilla. 5 condite. 
 
Book IX] Aust. 203 
 
 As poundis fewe and footis fewe applie, 195 
 
 So poundis moo to moo feet multiplie. 
 
 -De onfaco melle. xii'j capitulum. 
 
 For counfyt that is clept honyonfake, 
 Six sester take of grapes luce half sour; 
 Too sester hony myghtyly let brake 
 Or stampe, and putte hit into this licour; 200 
 
 Then xl dayes stonde hit euery hour 
 To boyle vnder the bemys of the Sonne, 
 And aftir kepe hit cloos & hit is wonne. 
 
 Aust. 92. [fol. 104.] 
 De horis. Quarlumdecimum capitulum. 
 
 Th's Aust and May in houris lengthe are oon: 
 Lo xxiij feet next either ende, 205 
 
 And too next hem on feet xiij goon; 
 And other too to footis ix extende, 
 And aftir too the next on vj ascende. 
 Next aftir none & erst stondyng on iiij is, 
 And none on iij stont yp and myddel hour is. 210 
 
 Deo Gracias. 
 Hie finit nonus hber. Hunc lima racionis 
 Princeps corripiat, quod mala nulla sciat. 
 
 Thus Aust is spende. alpha. Lord, & oo, 
 
 endles Ende, o gynnyngles Gynnynge, 
 
 To make aright vntil this book be doo 
 
 So graunte myght and therwithal connynge. 
 
 As myn entent is Thyn honour to sprynge 215 
 
 And iugepient; Thy p?-incis flour on cleer, 
 
 On cloudy, derk or light he must vpbrynge. 
 
 And y to werk am sette At Septembeer. 
 
X. 
 SEPTEMBER. 
 
 Be agris pinguib\}s terciandis. Pnmum. capitulum. 
 
 At September the faat lond vsyng longe 
 Humowr to kepe, is plowed; and so thrie 
 Hit plowed is. The same ek is no wroiige 
 Rather to do, yf seeson be not drie. 
 The playn, humyde, & lene lond espie, 5 
 
 In Aust seid of; now plowe hit new ayeyn, 
 And plowed, hoot let kest on hit his greyn. 
 The clyues^ thynne are ered now and sowe. [fol. 104a.] 
 And now nygh equynox thi londes donge, 
 In hillis thicke, in feeldis thynne hit throwe. 10 
 
 In wanyng of Phebes be they toflonge, 
 So may hit meest auayle and do leest wronge. 
 And for an aker lond seith Columelle 
 Carpentys xxiiij is to telle; 
 
 For hillis so; for feeldis take xviij. 15 
 
 And eue?"y day as many is to sprede 
 As thou that day to plowe vp may sustene, 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses. || In right margin: September. 
 6 Ms. now, B newe. || In right margin: 88, d. 15 Ms. ffor. 
 
 17 As] erasure of one letter after s. 
 
 1 cliui. 
 
Book X] September. 205 
 
 ffor drede lest the donge vp drie and dede. 
 
 Al wynter me may donge also, ffor nede 
 
 If donge in tyme on lond may not be throwe, 20 
 
 Ek sowe hit smal as seed whanne thou wilt sowe. 
 
 Attones lite and ofte is good to donge; 
 
 Weet lond wole more of hit then wole the drie. 
 
 ffor laak of donge in sondy lond be spronge 
 
 Good marl, and hit wole make hit multiplie; 25 
 
 And vppon cley, the sonde is good to strie — 
 
 That helpith corn, and makith vynes feire, 
 
 ffor donge in vynes wol the wynys peyre. 
 
 De serendo tritico et adoreo. ij capitulum. 
 
 This moone in lond vliginose or lene. 
 And in the londis also that beth colde, 30 
 
 In thicked lond also, is to deniene, 
 When day and nyght yliche longe is holde, 
 Bothe ador and thy whete in lond to folde 
 When ayer is feir; that they may vp be spronge 
 Er wynter come, & wexe a party stronge. 35 
 
 September. 93. [fol. 105.] 
 Be, remedijs humoris & de mensuris. [iij eapitulum.J 
 
 Sum lond is wont salt humour vp to t[h]rowe 
 That sleeth the corn; ther douves donge instrie,^ 
 And leues of cupresse ek on hit sowe. 
 And ere hit in. Or thus hit remedie: 
 This fals humowr let good water outrie. 40 
 
 In mene lond of ador or of whete, 
 An aker lond to strikes iiij is mete. 
 Thyn hopur clothe hienys skyn; and throwe 
 Thy seed therynne, and stonde hit ther a stoundo,^ 
 And, as they seyn, the better wole hit growe. 45 
 
 18 Ms. brede, B drede. 36 Buhric] Ms. omits iij capi- 
 
 tulum. II Ms. trowe, B throwe. 43 hienys] glossed in right 
 
 margin: Hiena est quoidam animal. 
 
 1 adice. 2 tempore. 
 
206 September. [Book X 
 
 If beestis harme hit that beth in the grounde,^ 
 Let mynge luce of cedum smal ygrounde^ 
 With water, and oon nyght thi seed ther stepe, 
 And beestis wicke away thus may me kepe. 
 
 Another luce of wyld cucumber vseth, 50 
 
 And hath the roote ystamped of the same 
 With water myxt, and so his seed enfuseth. 
 Oil dregges fresh of suwmen ban the name 
 Of helpyng from this beestis worthy blame, 
 Wherwith their londis liketh thei tenoynte, 55 
 
 And bathe her plowis theryn euery ioynt. 
 
 Be hordeo canteiino, iiij capitulum. De lupino. v capitulum. 
 
 NOW sowe in smal lond barly canteryne; 
 V stryk an aker hath. Ek now, or lite 
 Afore, in eue?y lond is kest lupyne; 
 But sowe hit er the coldes angri bite. 60 
 
 Hit hatith slymy lond & marlis white, 
 And as wel lene hit loueth and rubrike. 
 To sowe oon aker sufficeth x strike. 
 
 Be piso serendo. vj capitnhim. Be sisano. vij capitulum. 
 
 Late in this mone is pese ysowe in light [fol. 105 a.] 
 Lond & solute; in wete hit liketh growe; 65 
 
 With strykis iiij an aker lond is dight. 
 Sysane in faat soil & grauel is sowe; 
 Six sester on oon aker lond is throwe. 
 Late in this mone is ek to breke vp londe 
 Ther medica shal sowen be to stonde. 70 
 
 47 In right margin: Seduw est senermum id est cardus 
 benedictMS. 55 thei] added above in hand A. 57 Bubric] 
 
 Ms. caterino, B Canterino. || Ms. cantereyne, B Canteryne. 
 58 Ms. anaker. 62 Ms. hit loveth lene with two short 
 
 parallel stroJces before hit and two after and above loveth, B lene 
 it loveth. 67 In right margin: Sisanum est semew plwris 
 
 vnetuositatis. 
 
 1 terra. 2 trite. 3 hordeum canterinuw. 
 
Book X] September. 207 
 
 De vicia, feno greeo & fM-ragine serendis. Capitulum viij"'. 
 
 NOW first the flcche is sowen & feyngreek; 
 Oon aker serued is with strikis vij. 
 ffarrage in restyf lond, ydonged eek 
 Is doon; x stryke is for oon aker euen, 
 And out of molde er colde eek must hit heuen. 75 
 Til May hit wol suffice vppon to feede, 
 But lenger not then Marche yf hit shal seede. 
 
 De lupino serendo et eueitendo. ix capitulum. 
 
 Also taak heede in this Septembre mone, 
 Where erthis are out of fecundite 
 And lene, and nygh this monys Idus sone 80 
 
 Lupyne into tho londis sowen be; 
 And whan they shewe vp their fertilite, 
 So turne hem with the plough to putrifie, 
 And after that thy lond shal multiplie. 
 
 De pratis nouellis formandis. x capitulum. 
 
 NOW medis^ newe enfourme yf that thee hke; 85 
 Lond dewy faat, so lenyng, somdel playne, 
 In places like a valey hem thou pyke, 
 Where humour nys not longe ner to shor[t] slayn. 
 Al other lond of medis hath disdeyn; 
 Yet lond solute & lene yf hit be softe, 90 
 
 Wol bere gresse, yf hit be wattred ofte. 
 
 September. 94. [fol. 106.] 
 This tyme is to be stocked euery tre. 
 Away with herbis brode; ek roote & bough 
 And vche impediment outtaken be, 
 Ek exercise hit after with the plough. 95 
 
 When hit of erthe is resolute ynowgh, 
 The cloddis broke, and piked out the stoonys, 
 ffresh dongyng tyme in wanyng of thy raone is. 
 
 71 Ms. feyn greek. 82 Their fertilite] r and fertilite 
 
 over erasure. 88 Mss. shor. 
 
 1 prata. 
 
208 September. [Book X 
 
 For eny thyng no beest vppon hit trede; 
 
 Vneven hit they wolde, hit is to drede. 100 
 
 And yf old moos^ thy medis ouerlede, 
 
 Let shaue hit clene away in lengthe & brede; 
 
 The shauen ground with seed of hay let seede. 
 
 Ek forto sle this moos^ is don no wronge, 
 
 If askes ofte about on hit be spronge. 105 
 
 And yf thi mede is drossy, bareyn, olde, 
 
 Let plough hit eft, & playne hit eft doun lowe; 
 
 Eryng is good for aged medis holde. 
 
 The rape is sowe in hem; ek ficches tlirowe, 
 
 Beth therwith hey seed better forto growe. 110 
 
 Tyl hit be hard, vnwattred must hit be, 
 
 Le[s]t al the werk corrupte humydite. 
 
 De vindemia eelebranda. xi copituZum. 
 
 This mone in placis warme & nygh the see, 
 Vyndage is hugely to solempnyse; 
 In placis colde arayed fore is he. 115 
 
 The tonnys forto picche is to deuyse: 
 A tonne of too hundrid congys suffice 
 With poundis xij of picche; and more or lesse 
 After the quantite therof thou gesse. 
 
 Suwimen to xx pound of picche, a pound [fol. 106a.] 120 
 
 Of wax wol do, to ese hit lest hit lepe 
 
 In colde. Ek wyn to taste & smylle sound, 
 
 ffro bitter picche also thy wynes kepe." 
 
 Vppon the grayn in grapis ek take kepe;* 
 
 Yf they be broune and sumrae ek b[l]ake be 125 
 
 That is [a] token of maturitee. 
 
 112 Ms. Let, B Lest. 117 congy.s] glossed in right 
 
 margin: Congium mensura liqwidorMm sex continews sextaria & 
 sextariuTO sex libras. 125 Ms. bake, B blake. 126 Ms. 
 
 omits a, B a. 
 
 1 muscus. 2 inuscus. ^ custodias. * attendas. 
 
Book X] September. 209 
 
 He panico & milio metendis ac faselo serendo. xij capitulum. 
 
 NOW in sum stede is panyk^ rope and mylde;^ 
 ffasele also is sowen now for mete. 
 Now gynnes* forto take foulis wylde 
 And othere beestis, be they smale or grete, 130 
 
 By nyght^ is wrought and al to honde ygete, 
 To exercise at October Kalende 
 That ioyneth riglit vpon the Idus ende. 
 
 De papauere, Irasica, timo, origano, &c. xiij capiliilum. 
 
 Chesbollis^ now beth sowe in hoot & drie 
 Allone or other seed with; and hit sowe 135 
 
 Ther as thyng hath be brent, wol multiplie 
 Best, as they sayn. And now brasik to growe 
 ffor Nouember plauntyng, in lond is throwe, 
 Wherof in wynter wortis me may haue, 
 And in veer of the same croppis craue. 140 
 
 Thy garth in spryngyng tyme to be sowe, 
 Thre footis depe may now pastyned be; 
 At wanyng jnone is donge in hit to throwe. 
 Now tyme, of plaunte or seed, vtilite 
 Wol do, that loueth lene and and nygh the see. 145 
 Sowe origon whan day and nyght is longe 
 Yliche, and watter hit til hit be spronge; 
 
 September. 95. [fol. 107.] 
 Hit loueth donge and sharped stony londe. 
 Now capparis ysowen is also, 
 
 That hi hit self is best to make stonde, 150 
 
 ffor why his luce is other herbis foo; 
 So diche hym in that fer he may not go. 
 In somer tyme hym liketh wel to glade. 
 That whan Virgilis doun goth, gynneth fade. 
 
 127 Chapter begins with small initial. 128 In left 
 
 margin: faselu?» est genus leguminis multo meliM* prae (? qualn) 
 pisa. 139 Ms. saue, B haue. 141 Ms. grath, B garth. 
 
 149 Ms. carparis, B capparis. 
 
 1 panicuOT. ^ milium. 3 machinas. * noctu. 6 papauer. 
 
 14 
 
2lO September. [Book X 
 
 And gith is last eke in this mone ysowe, 155 
 
 Cresses^ and dele also in tempur londe 
 
 Or hoot. Eadish in drie also [wol] growe. 
 
 Passnepe & cerfoile also forth may stonde. 
 
 At October Kalendis kest with honde 
 
 Letuce and bete, ek coriander seedis. 160 
 
 Now rape and neep ysowen good in deede is, 
 
 De pomis scilicet de tuberilms. xiiij capitulum. 
 
 NOW tuberis at October Kalendis 
 Or ffeueryere, by cornels or sleuynge, 
 The bisynesse of settynge ful wel spende is, 
 Whos tender youthe applaudeth cherisshinge. 165 
 
 With roote a plaunte vppuld & sett, wol springe. 
 Oxdonge enoynte and cleyed in faat londe. 
 With seefroth^ vppon shellis, vp wol fonde. 
 
 Thre greynys suwme out of an appul take 
 
 And, Sonne ydried, sette hem iij and iij; 170 
 
 Oon spryng nature of greynes iij wol make. 
 
 That wet and dbluen bisily must be. ' 
 
 And oon year olde hem plauated is to se. 
 
 So wole their fruyt be swete. In lanyueer 
 
 Graffe hym in quynce,'' & eke in ffeueryeer. 175 
 
 And graffe hit best in plumme* & pirytrc,^ [fol. 107 a.] 
 
 Jn melis Calabrik; and with a rynde," 
 
 Or skeppe,' or potte * ydonged molde be 
 
 Vpholden to the graife, vntil hit fynde 
 
 Almest the toppe. The same craft is kynde 180 
 
 ffor melis ek. This tubre fruyt men ke[pe] 
 
 In mylde or picchid pottis leid to slope. 
 
 157 Ms. omits wo], B wol. 163 Ms. feueryere. 181 Ms. 
 ke, B kepe. 
 
 1 narstusciuTO (sic). 2 marina al — ga (sic). 3 cidoneo. 
 * pruno. 5 piro. 6 cortice. '' quale. 8 fictili. 
 
Book X] September. 211 
 
 ^De pauimentis & Zaieriftus. xv capitulum. Tie diamoro. xvj 
 capitulum. 
 
 NOW flores me may paue & brikis^ make, 
 As is the craft discryued erst in May. 
 Sycomor^ wylde a certeyn is to take 185 
 
 And boyle hit so, not with to grete affray. 
 Too partis of this luce ys forto alay 
 With oon part of hony; vpboile hit thenne 
 And stere hit vntil honythicke it renne. 
 
 De seruandis vuis. xvij capitnlnm. 
 
 Trie out the grape vnhurt, neither to ripe 190 
 
 Neither to sowre, as gemmys luculent, 
 Of soft and hard as goodly is to gripe. 
 Tho puld of tliat corrupcioun hath shent, 
 The closter tenes" in hoot pick be blent*; 
 Suspende hem so in coold hous drie, obscure, 195 
 Ther no light in may breke, and they beth sure. 
 
 De vite cuius fructus humore putreseit. xviij capitulum. 
 
 Avyne wlios fruyt humour wol putrifie, 
 Pampyned is to be by euery side, 
 Relicte on hit oonly the croppis hie, 
 ffro sonnys hete her gemme oonly to hide; 200 
 
 And thenne vnroted wol the grape abide. 
 September is with Aprill houris euen, 
 ffor Phebiis lijk in either gireth heuen. 
 
 September. 96. [fol. 108.] 
 De horis. Decimum nonum capitulum. 
 
 I^reyther ende is xiij & xjV 
 -J And next ereither ende is vij twye;^ 205 
 
 And thridde is x, and flrthe is fully vij; 
 
 183 Suhric] Ms. diamorMm. 184 discryued] o altered 
 
 from t. II In le/t margin: 79; f, g, h. 202 Ms. Septembre, 
 
 B Septembej-. 
 
 1 lateres. 2 sjcomorum. 3 hotrionum tenaces. * vel brent. 
 
 Bxxiiij. fixiiij. 
 
 14* 
 
212 September. [Book X 
 
 And fifthe is v, and none on iij stont hie. 
 
 Surtrete hem first and after multiplie, 
 
 As in Aprile in sense is seid the same 
 
 In other speche, yf y be not to blame. 210 
 
 September is anende. Honour, empire, 
 
 Laude, ymne, & blis ascende vnte our eterne 
 
 Almighty Lord, that wolde vs alle enspire 
 
 In werk His word to holde, yf galle interne, 
 
 Yf synne in our entent Hym nolde externe.^ 215 
 
 lesse fflour, so hent and bolde vs heer 
 
 To fie fro synne and derk fir sempiterne. 
 
 As me to gynne a werk At Octobeer. 
 
 1 vel weme. 
 
XL 
 OCTOBER. 
 
 De adoreo & tritico & ordeo canterino <fcc. i capitulum. 
 
 At October is whete & ador sowe. 
 lust sowyng of hem is fro x KaleDde 
 Of Nouember vntil vj Idus blowe 
 Of December, & thenne is hit at ende. 
 This mone is donge ycaryed out onende^ 5 
 
 This mone is sowe ek barly canteryne; 
 Lond lene, or faat, or drie, is for hit digne. 
 Hit holdith ther as seedis seelden growe, [fol. 108a.] 
 And gretly hatith hit al donged londe. 
 Now ficchis, pese, and lupynes beth sowe; 10 
 
 Sysane^ also, right as biforn is fonde, 
 Sowe at this mones Ide. Ek aftir honde 
 ffasele in faat or bareyn londe wole rise; 
 And strikis iiij oon aker shal suffice. 
 
 De lini semine serendo. Secundum capitulum. 
 
 Now lynseed, yf the liketh, may be sowe; 15 
 
 But sowe hit not, hit sowkith out the swete 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses. || In right margin: October. 11 
 In left margin: 93; e. 3 Ms. Nouembre, B November. 6 Ms. 
 ek is sowe, B is sowe eke. 15 Bubric] i in lini altered from e. 
 
 1 dWigenter. 2 colcul qwaere. 
 
314 October. [Book XI 
 
 Of euery lond; and yf thow wilt hit growe, 
 
 Sowe hit in fattist londis sumdel wete; 
 
 Viij strike of hit is for oon aker mete. 
 
 Ek summen sowe hit thicke in lene londe, 20 
 
 And subtil flax ynough theron wol stonde. 
 
 -D« notanda vitium fertilitate. lij copitulura. 
 
 NOW nede is sette a signe on euery vyne 
 That fertile is, sciouns of hit to take 
 ffor settyng. Columelle oon yeres sygne 
 Reputeth not ynough, preef forto make 25 
 
 Of fertilesse; but yf hit neuere slake 
 In yeris foure of beryng forth expresse, 
 That is a preef of graffls gentylnesse, 
 
 . De ponendis vineis vel propagandis. iiij ccspitulum. 
 
 Now late, in londe ther ayer is hoot & drie 
 And erthe exile, or hilly drie, or lene, 530 
 
 Vynes beth best ysette to multiplie. 
 Settyng, kittyng, & pastynyng demene, 
 Traylyng, reparyng, bosshyng vynes clone 
 As taught is erst, yf lond be drie, exile 
 Hoot, grauelly, and gladsum otherwhyle. 35 
 
 October. 97. [fol. 109.] 
 So holpen is the vyne of wynter rayn 
 Ayeyn the londis lene pouerte, 
 So drynketh hit that is of drynkis fayn, 
 That is not wont of frostis vexid be; 
 ffor ther as lond is of that qualite 40 
 
 The frostis na no dominacioun. 
 Now Cometh efte ablaqueacioun. 
 
 De ablaqueanda nouella. v capitulum. 
 
 After this monys Ide, of vynes yonge 
 The rootis voide away be kitte, lest they 
 Be cause of deth vnto the rootis stronge. 45 
 
 28 preef] e added above in same hand. 29 Ms. a yeer, 
 
 B ayer. 34 erst] glossed in left margin: 33 & cetera usq«t« 
 
 40 inclusive. 
 
Book XI] October. 215 
 
 And nghi so on the typto lete hem geyS 
 So shal she not for hoot ner cold obey. 
 But kitte hem not to nygh, lest they abounde 
 Thre toon for oon, or feester into a wounde. 
 
 Kitte hem a fynger fro; and yf ther be 60 
 
 Wynter plesaunt, apert is hem to leue; 
 
 And vyolent yf thou the wynter se 
 
 December Idus wrie hem lest hit greue. 
 
 ffor ouer cold do dowues donge at eue 
 
 Aboute her roote, algour away to dryue; 55 
 
 Ek Columeile hath this doon yeris fyue. 
 
 De vtilitate propagatioais. vj c™. De inserendis arboribus. vij ca^^\ 
 
 In Septembre the propagacioun. 
 In londis suche as told is of bifore, 
 Is best to sette in occupacioun, 
 ffor now they makith rootis lesse and more. 60 
 
 And why? for braunche now may they nomore. * 
 Suwmen also now graffeth vyne and tree, 
 But that in hattist lond is wont to be. 
 
 De oUuetis instituendis <& purgandis. [vii c™.] [fol. 109 a.] 
 
 In places now that hattest beth and feire, 
 As erst is seid, make vp thyn oliuete. 65 
 
 And al that longeth to the semynaire 
 Of oliuetis, time is on to swete. 
 Oliues white ek now confite hem swete 
 
 53 In right margin: Metonomia. 56 doon] o added 
 
 above in same hand. 63 Ms. fattist, B hattest. 64 Bubric] 
 
 viij capitulum omitted. || now] added above between that and 
 hattest in hand A; immediately below it are two short parallel 
 strolees; B nowe that. 66 Ms. their, B the. 67 omitted 
 
 and afterward supplied in right margin in hand A; a double 
 cross in Ms. marlts the place where it belongs. It is in its proper 
 place in B. 
 
 J librare, 
 
216 October. [Book XI 
 
 A.S shal be taught. Bk there is warm & drie 
 
 Ablaqueate hem that they may vndrie^. 70 
 
 Pulle of vclie plaunte, as chargeth Columelle; 
 
 Yet thynkith me the saddest ere amonge 
 
 Were husbondrie a parcell forto dwelle, 
 
 That -whan the damme is feynt, the child be stroiige, 
 
 In stede of semynary werk to fonge 75 
 
 On fote & go. Ek at iij yeer is holde 
 
 Hem good to dongc, and namly ther is colde. 
 
 Six pound of gootis donge is for oon tre, 
 
 Or euery tre a stryke of askes gage. 
 
 The mosse away yrased from hem be. 80 
 
 Ek Columelle hem kitteth viij yeer age; 
 
 But I say bareyn, feynt, or in dotage 
 
 If bowes be, hem yerly vtter trie. 
 
 And helpe hem thus, yf they nj'l fructifie: 
 
 Tnto the pith a ffrensh^ wymbul,^ inbore; 85 
 
 Threste in a braunche of roggy wilde olyue — 
 
 Thrcste hit in faste; and to their rootis score, 
 
 Al nakid maad, oildregges kest as blyue, 
 
 Or old vryne; in this maner do thryue^ 
 
 A bareyn tre to childe. In this corage, 90 
 
 Hem forto graffe is good, as seyn the sage. 
 
 October. 98. [fol. 110.] 
 Memedium si vua compluta est. ix capitulum. 
 
 Now purge vp brook and djche. Ek yf greet rayn 
 
 The grape hath weet, aftir the formest hete 
 
 Of must* of hem comyng, as Grekis sayn, 
 
 Is best al into other vessel gete; 95 
 
 The water wol bihynd al heuy lete. 
 
 85 Ms. f'rensh. 92 Buhric in hand A. Th^ chapter 
 
 begins with small initial || greet] erasure of letter after t. || 
 rayn] r in hand A. 
 
 1 humere. 2 gallica. 8 torebra. * swyue auctor dicit. 
 5 musti. 
 
217 October. [Book XI 
 
 This wyn translated thus is saaf and pure 
 And watterles, forwhy hit liath his cure. 
 
 De oleo viridi S laurino. Capitiilum x. 
 
 Fresshest olyue is taken, so dyuers 
 
 As his colour is, and to dwelle ore eue 100 
 
 Let brede hem, lest they hete and be the wers; 
 
 Ek euery drie or roten cors remeue. 
 
 And rather hool than grounden salt, let screue 
 
 On hem, iij stryk on x strike of oliue, 
 
 And into skeppis newe hem haste asblyue. 105 
 
 This sauery salt al nyght so let hem drynke, 
 
 And erly settc on werkynge hem the wringe; 
 
 A sauery oil ther wol out of hit synke. 
 
 But first with water warm is to bisprynge 
 
 The chanels^ of this oil & vesselynge. 110 
 
 Le[s]t rancour oil enfecte, do fier away. 
 
 Now ek is oil to make of laury bay.^ 
 
 De herbis in orto serendis <& plantandis. xi capitulum. 
 
 The wynter goold* is sowen in this mone 
 That loueth weet, solute, & grauel londe; 
 In salt londe nygh the see they spryngeth soone. 115 
 But make hem bordis playn vppon to stonde. 
 Lest rootis bare, yf molde fie, be fonde. 
 And katirfoyl when they beth vp yspronge, 
 Transplaunte hem into londe ydight with donge. 
 The tasul* plaunte is also now to sette, [fol. 110a.] 120 
 Thre foote vche oon of hem from other stonde. 
 The rootis cropped first, & donge ywette; 
 Thenne increment in hem is to be fonde; 
 In wynter dayes drie, vppon their londe 
 Let donge and askes keste. Ek now is sowe 125 
 
 Senuey that wold in hardest lond be strowe; 
 
 99 Bubrie in hand A. The initial is omitted, a small f 
 standing at the beginning of the stanza. Ill Ms. Let, B Lest 
 1 14 weot] e added above in same hand. 
 
 1 chanales (sic). 2 laury bacis (sic). 3 inoida (intiba?). * carduus. 
 
218 October. [Book XI 
 
 Yet euery where hit makith plaunte & flour, 
 
 And fedde hit is to duste hit ofte and weede, 
 
 But litel ioy hath hit of myche humour. 
 
 And as for seed, in natal soil hit feede; 130 
 
 Transplauntyng as for mete, is better deede 
 
 To make hem stronge. If hit withynne is grene, 
 
 ffor sauce or seed that grayne is to sustene. 
 
 This mone is malue^ ysowe, and to be longe 
 
 The wynter lettith hit, or gret to thryue, 135 
 
 And glad is hit of faat lond, wete, & donge. 
 
 Ek hem transplaunte at leues iiij or v; 
 
 The tendir plaunte is take anoon & blyue 
 
 Vpgoth; and sekkul betli the grete ysette. 
 
 And they that stille stondith sauereth bette. 140 
 
 But to faste into croppis lest they rise. 
 
 Ley soft a litel clod on, or a stoon. 
 
 Oft weded, rare ysette, ek is their gise. 
 
 But so pull vp the wedis oon & oon 
 
 That roote of hit be meued therby noon. 145 
 
 And yf me make a knotte on euery roote. 
 
 They wole be frogh^ ynough & tender swoote. 
 
 October. 99. [fol. HI.] 
 Now dile is sowe in placis temporate. 
 Also the mynte is in this mone ysowe. 
 And oynouns forto sowe ek tyme is ate; 150 
 
 Pasnepe and origon and tyme is throwe 
 In moolde as now. Ek armarik wol growe 
 Now sowe or sette; and bete in londis drie 
 [Is] in this mone ysette to multiplie. 
 Now leek, ysowe in veer, transplaunted be 155 
 
 That hit may hede; and ofte aboute hit weede; 
 
 i 52 amarik] glossed in right margin: id est raphanM* agrestig. 
 154 Ms. In this m. y sette, B Is in this m. ysette. 
 
 1 raalua. 2 seotiles. 
 
Book XI] October. 219 
 
 Ek lyfte her plaunte a litel quantite, 
 
 So holgh to stonde & in the heed to sprede. 
 
 Basilicon ek now to sowe y reede, 
 
 That spryngith soone yf aysel on hem reyne — 160 
 
 I mene on hem al light yf hit me spreyne. 
 
 Ve pomis colendis & pomis condiendis. xij capitulum. 
 
 Who wol do puruyauncs in worldis longe, 
 The palmes forto sette he must ha mynde. 
 Now datis bones trie out fatt and yonge,' 
 And hem that fresshest newe are in their kynde; 165 
 Hem vndir erthe in molde and askis wynde. 
 Aprile or May the plaunte is in to sette; 
 Hoot lond they loue, and often to be wette. 
 
 Solute or sondy londis they requyre, 
 
 So that aboute or vndir hem be do 170 
 
 A certeyn of faat lond, as they desire. 
 
 And hem transplaunte oon yeer of age or too; 
 
 But do this first in luyn and luyl also. 
 
 Ek delue hit ofte, and [forto] kepo of hete, 
 
 Ay with and with lycour on hit to trete. 175 
 
 Salt water helpith palme, or of nature [fol. Ilia.] 
 
 Or maad; and yf the tre bigynne seeke', 
 
 The dreggis old of wynes wole hit cure, 
 
 So hit vnto the bared rootis seeke^. 
 
 The heer do barbe away from eyther cheeke 180 
 
 Of euery roote; or make a saly pyn, 
 
 And in the rootis clift let dryue hit in. 
 
 The lond is nought for fruyt that palmes growe 
 
 Vntiled yn. Pistace is in this mone 
 
 161 Ms. allight, B al light. 167 Ms. into, B in to. 
 
 174 Ms. omits forto, B forto kepe. 183 The scribe began the 
 
 stanza on the blank line usually left between two stanzas whfre a 
 small t followed by a perpendicular stroke appears. 
 
 egrotare. 2 querat, 
 
220 October. [Book XI 
 
 Of plauntes sette other of nuttis sowe. 185 
 
 But man & womman sett to gidrc, sone 
 
 Wol fructifie, and so hit is to done. 
 
 The man is he that hath vnder his rynde, 
 
 Lik bonys, longe stonys as maniiynde. 
 
 And other use another diligence: 190 
 
 They smyteth out the heed of slceppis smale, 
 
 And donged molde in hit they wol dispense, 
 
 And theryn do pistacis iij by tale, 
 
 And of hem all vp wol ther ryse a stale ^■ 
 
 In ffeueryeer whan hit is woxen stronge, 195 
 
 Yf me transplaunte hit not, me doth it wronge. 
 
 He loueth moist & hoot & often drynke. 
 
 In terebynt at ffeueryeer is he 
 
 Ygraffed; and in Marchc, as other thynke, 
 
 He may be graffed in an almauntre^. 200 
 
 Cold ayer & weet lond hath the chiritre; 
 
 Their frutis wole be smale in placis warme, 
 
 And hetis that beth greete ek wol hem harme. 
 
 October. 100. [fol. 112.] 
 In hillis sette vp gooth with mery cheer; 
 And now transplaunted beth their plauntis wilde, 205 
 In Nouember also; but lanyveer. 
 When they beth take & gynnetb go with childe. 
 Hem is hit good to graffe in dayes mylde. 
 Or in this monys thre their pomes spryngc'' 
 In molde, and palmes faste of hit wolo sprynge*. 210 
 
 I preued haue encrece of cheritre; 
 The yerdis that my vyne y sette vnto 
 Anoon hath growen vppe an huge tre 
 In lanyueer. And Nouember also, 
 
 195 Ms. feueryeer. 
 
 I planta. 2 amigdalo. 3 sere. * nasci. 
 
Book XI] October. 221 
 
 And other seyn in October tlierto, 215 
 
 Is hem to graffe in trunke, as Marcyal 
 
 Seith; I in rynde ha fonde hit good at al. 
 
 And, as he seith, in trunke whos wol hem do 
 
 Most pike away the downe^ of al the tre; 
 
 ffor many a graffe, he seith, liit liath fordo. 220 
 
 This obseruance is to be kept, seith he, 
 
 In chiritreen and alle that gummy be: 
 
 To graffe hem whan no gumme vppon hem growo, 
 
 Or eliis whan hit styntith out to flowe. 
 
 In plane, and in hymself, in populeer 225 
 
 He graffed is, & in the plowrae tre. 
 
 In delues depe he is of mery cheer; 
 
 Gret rowme and deluyng ofte loueth he. 
 
 Kitte hem that dote or drie or densed be. 
 
 They hateth donge, hit doth hem out of kynde. 230 
 
 Now craft to haue hem stonles kepe in mynde: 
 
 [fol. 112 a.] 
 Withouten stoon wel wol they growe and cheue, 
 As Marcyal seith, yf a tender tree 
 Me kitte at footis tweyne, and thenne hit cleue 
 Vnto the roote, and with an yron se 235 
 
 The mary rased out; and closed be 
 Hit soone ayen, and bynde hit, wrappe in donge 
 His heed and either half the slitte in longe. 
 And in oon yeer vpheleth hit attonys; 
 Thenne in hit do graffis that neuer here, 240 
 
 Therof wol be chiries withouten stonys. 
 And that the trunkis rote[th] yf thou here. 
 Humour itake, out of hem hit to pere, 
 
 217 Ms. hafonde. 232 Withouten] Initial V over small 
 
 indistinct w. 242 Ms. rote, S roteth. 243 itake] i 
 
 written above in later hand and omission noted by inverted caret 
 B ytake. 
 
 lanuginem. 
 
222 October. [Book XI 
 
 Bigrounde into the stok hit is to bore. 
 
 Yf auntis^ harme, a craft is ek therfore: 245 
 
 Held on the tre the luce of portulake, 
 
 Half aysel myxt, and forth they goth yfeer. 
 
 Or wyne dreggis wole make hem thennes slake, 
 
 As flouris gynne. And yf Oanyculer 
 
 So make hem feynt, hoot, & of drury cheer, 250 
 
 A sester take at vche of wellis thre. 
 
 And on their roote at eve hit pourid se; 
 
 But let not Ecate^ this craft espie. 
 
 Outher an herbe is clept Symphoryake 
 
 Ylike a crowne, aboute her body plie, 255 
 
 Or nygh the roote a couche of hit thou make. 
 
 And chiries in the sonne ydried take 
 
 And kepe, as they bygynne in rivullynge^- 
 
 This mone also the male* is sett to sprynge; 
 
 October. 101. [fol. 113.] 
 This male is sette in londis hoot & drie. 260 
 
 At Nouember Kalendis quynce' and serue" 
 In semynayr is sett to multiplie. 
 And of the same an almauntre they serue'. 
 Now pyne* is sowe; and pomys forto obserue 
 In condyment is now to make, afore 265 
 
 Of Yche of hem as erst is taught the lore. 
 
 De apibns castrandis. xiij capitulnm. 
 
 Castracioun the been haue eft this mone. 
 As seid is erst, yf they be riche; & ellis 
 To leue hem half their goodis is to done. 
 And yf pouerte appere in their sellis, 270 
 
 That robbeth hem, wel worthy go to belle is. 
 
 257 Ms. ydried thou take, B omits thou. 261 Ms. 
 
 qujncis, B quynce. 267 In right margin: 82; e, f, g, h. 
 
 1 formice. 2 luna. 3 rugas ha6ere. * mali. B cidoneuw. 
 6 sorbus. "^ faciunt. 8 pinus. 
 
Book XI J October. 223 
 
 Hony and wex as erst, is now to make. 
 What shal be seid of wyn, is tent to take. 
 
 De vinis pomorum. xiiij cap\Uilum. 
 
 That I ha redde, and Grekis in their feith 
 Affernie, y thenke hit heere to you declare: 275 
 This difference in wyn, their writyng seith, 
 Ther is, that swettist wynes heuy are; 
 The white a party salt is not to spare — 
 The bledder helpith hit; the yolgh coloured 
 Digestioun is gretly by socoured. 280 
 
 The stiptyk whyte a stomak that is laxe 
 Wole helpe, enducyng colour that is pale, 
 And lesse of blood in man therof wol waxe. 
 ffrom grapis blake a niyghty wyn wole hale, 
 And swete of rede, and swettest from the smale. 285 
 And fro the white is drawe a comyn wyn , 
 But condyment hit thus to make hit fyn: 
 The muste, decoct to his medietee [fol. 113 a.] 
 Or thridde part, they casteth to their wyne. 
 But Grekis haue an other subtiltee: 290 
 
 Of see quyete vptaketh they maryne 
 Water purest; oon yeer they lete hit fyne, 
 Wherof, they seyn, so maad is the nature 
 Of bitternesse or salt that hit is sure. 
 This age al ille odour eschaungeth sweete. 295 
 
 The eightith part therof in must they do; 
 The fiftith part of gipse^ is therto meete, 
 And aftir dayes iij they goth therto, 
 And myghtyly they route hit to and fro. 
 Thus dight. they seyn that longe hit wol endure 300 
 And in colour be resplendent and pure. 
 Tche dayes ix a wyn is to be moued, 
 And namly whan ther is a latte vyndage. 
 
 275 Ms. haredde. 290 Ms. siibtilitee, B subtiltee. 
 
 1 plaster. 
 
224 October. [Book XI 
 
 By seyng ofte is what to holde yproued 
 
 And what is good to sende on pilgrymage. 305 
 
 Of resyn^ drie and stamped summen gage 
 
 Tlire vncis into a tonne, and alto meue 
 
 Hit, and hit shal endure as they bileue. 
 
 The must that is byrayned thus they cure^: 
 
 By taste they wite yf hit birayned be; 310 
 
 The XX*' part away to boile, her cure" 
 
 Is first, of gipse an hundreth quantite 
 
 Doon with; and other wole hit boyled se 
 
 Vntil the flfthe part of hit consume. 
 
 And after yeeris iiij in vse assume. 315 
 
 October. 102. [fol. 114.] 
 Of wynys soure is taught to make swete 
 Wit barly flour, and not but cruses* too — 
 As for a smal vessel so niyche is mete; 
 An hour into the wyn let hit be do. 
 And oon doth dregge of swete wyn therto; 320 
 
 Of gliricide a part he hath infuse 
 Al drie, & longe yshogged, it wol vse. 
 And best odour hath wyn in dayes lite, 
 The bay of myrte agrest, montane, and drie, 
 Yf that me grynde, or braiyng alto smyte, 325 
 
 And into a wyn barel doun let hem sie^ 
 And after dayes ten theroutof trie. 
 Or flouris swete of vyne or other tre. 
 In vmbre dried, may reserued be. 
 But bray hem smal, & presse hem in a newe 330 
 Vessel; and when thou wilt, on kadis thre 
 Of wyn a certeyn of this flouris snewo, 
 And closid fast vpon the vessel se; 
 At dayes sixe ydronken may hit be. 
 And forto make a wyn to drynke swete, 335 
 
 Of saturege or fenel putte in meete. 
 
 1 resino. 2 sanant. 3 cura. * ciati. 5 descende. 
 
Book XI] October. 225 
 
 Other the fruyt of pynys nuttis too 
 
 Wole bake, and in a cloth into the wynys 
 
 Vessel let honge, and cleme hit wel therto; 
 
 At dayes v yserued this swete wyn is. 340 
 
 To other craft an ere ek forto enclyne is — 
 
 How wynes yonge as olde shal appere; 
 
 Who liketh ha that craft may lerne hit heere. 
 
 [fol. 114a.J 
 The soure almaund & wermode & feyn greek — 
 ffrote hem yfere as myche as wole suffise, 345 
 
 The gumme of fructifiyng pynes eek, 
 And bray al as wel as thou canst dyuyse; 
 A cruce^ into a stene of wyn dyuyse. 
 Confected thus, ther wol be wynys grete. 
 Lest they enfecte is ferther now to trete: 350 
 
 Taak aloen & mirre & magma with 
 
 Saffron, of yche yliche, and thus demene: 
 
 With braiyng when they maad to poudre beth, 
 
 Let mynge hem with an hony that is clene; 
 
 A cruse of this now putte in a wyn stene, 355 
 
 And saaf they are. And wynes of oon yere 
 
 At passyng age is thus to make appere: 
 
 An vnce of melion, of gliciride^ 
 
 Thre vnce, and take as myche of nard celtike; 
 
 Let stampe hem also smal as may bitide 360 
 
 With aloes tweyne vncis epatike; 
 
 Let vessel hit, & sette hit vp in smyke^- 
 
 Six sponful putte in fifty sester wyn 
 
 Wol make hit auntceaunt appere & fyn. 
 
 The wynys browne eschaungeth into white*, 365 
 
 Yf that me putte in hit lomente* of bene. 
 
 To putte also in oon galoun the white e 
 
 Of eyron thre and shake hit in his stene. 
 
 1 ciatum. 2 gljciridie. 3 fumo. 4 alba. B lomeiitu»M. 6 al- 
 borem. 15 
 
226 October. [Book XI 
 
 The next[e] day alwhite hit wol be clene. 
 
 Of Afre^ pese yf thou do to loment, 370 
 
 The same day [hit] serueth thyn entent. 
 
 October. 103. [fol. 115.] 
 The vyne also they sayn hath the nature, 
 That vynes yf me brenne, or whyte or blake, 
 And keste hem into wyne, me may be sure 
 The wyn colour after the vynys take, 375 
 
 ffor whyt of whyt, & broun of broun shal wake. 
 But therof into a tonne a stryk doon be, 
 That is X stene, and ther be dayes thre. 
 So close hit, xl dayes let hit reste. 
 An esy wyn a man to make stronge: — 380 
 
 Take leef or roote or caule of malve agrest^ 
 And boyle hit; keste so thy wyn amonge. 
 Or gipse or askis twey cotuls no wronge 
 Thy wynes doth; iij piluls of cupresse. 
 Or leef of box an hondful, therto gesse, 385 
 
 Or ache^ seed & askis of garment, 
 Wherof the flaume hath left a cors exile, 
 The bodi so not al the boonys brent. 
 Also a man may in oon dayes while 
 So trete a stordy* wyn that hit shal smyle, 390 
 
 And of a rough drynker be cleer and best — 
 Now se, the craft is esy and honest: 
 Take pepur cornys x & twye as fele 
 Pistacies; hem with a quantite 
 
 Of wyn to stampe as snial as thou may dele, 395 
 And to six sester wyn cowimyxt hit be. 
 And route hem so that they to gidre fle. 
 Now let hem reste; and dense hem, and to vse 
 Hem right anoon ther wol noman refuse. 
 
 369 Mss. next. 371 Ms. omits hit, B it. 390 Ms. 
 
 To trete, B So trete. 
 
 1 affra. 2 altee (altheae). 3 apij. 4 austerura. 
 
Book XI] October. 227 
 
 [fol. 115 a.] 
 A troubuF wyn anoon a man may pure: 400 
 
 Seuen curnels^ of a pynappul do 
 In oon sester of wyn that is impure, 
 And trauayle hit a tyme to and fro, 
 And aftir suffre hit to reste go. 
 
 Anoon hit wol resseyue a puryte; 405 
 
 So clensid thanne & vsid may hit be. 
 
 Cretenses were ytaught of AppoUo", 
 
 As it is seid; — of aloes epatyk 
 
 ffoure vncis, and of sq^inuant therto 
 
 Asrayche, and oon vnce of fynest mastyk; 410 
 
 ffyn mirre an vnce, and of the pisce indyk 
 
 But half an vnce; a vnce of mascul thure 
 
 Wei smellynge, and an vnce of pepur dure — 
 
 Bete al this smal, and sarce hit smothe at al. 
 
 And whan thi must boyI[eth], scome of the grape 415 
 
 That wol rise & be superficial. 
 
 So take hem that not oon of hem escape; 
 
 Taak gipse & hit with stampyng alto frape, 
 
 Sarce hit; thre sester ytalike be do 
 
 To stenes x of wyn yscomed so. 420 
 
 But first this wyn forseid the fourthe part 
 
 Into sum other vessel is to brynge. 
 
 Therto this gipse is aftir to depart, 
 
 And with a reed al greue of fresh growynge, 
 
 Too dayes in his tonne hit alto flynge; 425 
 
 The thridde day of this wyn in x stene. 
 
 Let sponys foure of this poudir demene. 
 
 404 And] small d added above in hand A. 407 Cre- 
 
 tenses] Initial omitted hy rubricator; small c in its place. 
 414 smothe] o very like e. 515 Ms. boyl, B boileth. 426 in 
 x] over erasure. 
 
 1 feculentuTO. 2 nuclis (sic). 3 dec sapieuiie. 
 
 16' 
 
228 October. [Book XI 
 
 October. 104. [fol. 116.] 
 Thenne vnto hit the fourthe part be do 
 That fro was take, and so fille vp the tonne; 
 And moue hit Iong[e] tyme to and fro, 430 
 
 Til al this spice among this must be ronne ; 
 So stoppe hit vp al saaf from wynde or sonue. 
 Yet leef a litel hole out at to brethe 
 Their hetes estua,nt forto alethe; 
 
 And aftir xl dayes this spiracle 435 
 
 Is vp to close; and when the list hit drynke — 
 
 The tast therof wole fare as a miracle. 
 
 But whan wyn is to moue, vppon this thynke: 
 
 A nakid child may best vppon hit swynke, 
 
 Or oon as pure as he. In lynyment ' 440 
 
 ffor tonnes best doth askis of sarment. 
 
 Good stomak wyn & countwr pestilence 
 
 Thus make: Of fynest must in oon metrete, 
 
 Br hit be at the state of his feruence, 
 
 Eight vnce of grounden wermode^ in a shete 445 
 
 Dependaunt honge, and xl dayes swete, 
 
 Thenne out hit take. In lomys^ smaller lient 
 
 This must, and vse hit as wyn pestilent. 
 
 Now they condite her must egestioun. 
 
 That wol with gipse her wynys medicyne. 450 
 
 In light smal wyn withouten questioun 
 
 Too sester gipse ynowe is to reclyne. 
 
 An hundrid conge wyn to that assigne; 
 
 And if the wyn be saad & myghty, rounde, 
 
 Therto shal oon sester of gipse abounde. 455 
 
 430 Mss. long. 431 Ms. rowne. 432 Sonne] o begun 
 as u. 442 Ms. pestilencie, B pestilence. 449 Ms. twey, B thai. 
 
 1 absinthij. 2 xascis (?) or vej'asci«(?) 
 
Book XI] October. 229 
 
 [fol. 116 a.] 
 De rosato sine rosa faciendo. xv capit\ilum. 
 
 NOW is rosate ymaad withouteu rose: 
 Taak leues grene ynough of citurtre, 
 And in [a] palmy basket hem dispose, 
 And into muste that yet not feruent be 
 Depose, & close or fast hit closed se. 460 
 
 This taken out at xl dales eende, 
 Kest hony to and as rosate hit spende. 
 
 De vinis pomoram. xvj capitulum. De ynomelle. xvij capitulum. 
 
 NOW euery wyne of pomys is to make, 
 As craft is taught bifore vche in his mone. 
 Of grete & noble vynys now let take 465 
 
 Of muste as myche as semeth thee to done — 
 At xx*^ dales ende is not to sone; 
 Out of the pitte after that hit is do, 
 The fifthe part of hony rough putto^, 
 (Not scorned, fyn, wel stampid must hit be) 470 
 
 Vntil hit white, and moue hit myghtily 
 With reed al grene, and xl dales se, 
 Or better 1*', doon contynuely. 
 Ay with a shete ycouertid clenly. 
 Aftir this tyme in hondis clene vphent 475 
 
 Al that wol swymme & be superfluent. 
 
 So gipse hit vp, and kepe hit for thyn age — 
 
 Hit bette is kept in picchid loomes smale. 
 
 And next at ver let gipse hem, and forth gage, 
 
 And in a celle of cold erthe hem avale 480 
 
 In flood grauel; or ther they stonde a dale 
 
 Do make, & drenche hem thryn. Tyl worldis longe 
 
 This drynkis wole abide and ay be stronge. 
 
 458 Ms. in palmy, J5 in a palmy. 470 Space for initial 
 
 filled hy Not and line of red ink drawn through the original ot. 
 
230 October. [Book XT 
 
 October. 105. [fol. 117.] 
 De defruto careno & sapa. xviij capituZum. 
 
 Defrut, carene, & sape in oon maneer 
 Of muste is maad, defrut of deseruynge 485 
 
 Til thicke hit be. Carene is boylid neer 
 ffrom thre til too, but sape vnto oon let bringe 
 ffrom thre; and al this craft nys but bolynge. 
 But sape is best, yf quyncis therwith be 
 Decoct, and al the fier maad of flgtre. 490 
 
 Be passo. xix eapitulum. 
 
 Now passe ^ is maad that Affryk vseth make 
 Aforn vyndage, and thus this craft they trete : 
 A multitude of reysouns puld they take, 
 And into russhy fray els rare hem gete, 
 And myghtily with yerdes first hem bete, 495 
 
 Vntil this werk the grapis so dissolue; 
 And thenne hem to the pressis they deuolue. 
 Ther pressid out is al that out wole passe ^, 
 And vndir kept into sum vessel clene; 
 And this licour Affrikis callith passe ^. 500 
 
 As hony me may kepe hit in a stene; 
 In stede of whom, in metis hit demene. 
 This condyment is esy & iocounde 
 Wherof inflacioun shal noon redounde. 
 
 Be cidonite. xx capituZum. 
 
 Take quyncis* ripe & pare hem, hewe hem small 505 
 And alfor smal, but keste away the core, 
 ffor hit is nought to this effect at all. 
 In hony thenne vpboyle hem lesse & more, 
 Til hit be haluendel that was bifore; 
 Do pepir within boyling smallest grounde. 510 
 
 This is the first maner, and the secounde. 
 Another wise, is this: taak sestris too [fol. 117a.J 
 Of luce of quynce, and oon sester fiysel 
 
 1 passun {sic). 2 effluere. 3 passun {sic). * cidonea. 
 
Book XI J October. 231 
 
 And half, ek too sester hony therto; 
 
 This mynge, and boyle hit al to gidre wel, 515 
 
 Til hit be hony faat and thicke vche del. 
 
 Of piper and gynger tweyne vncis grounde 
 
 To pouder smal, is therto forto infounde. 
 
 De fermento mustornm seruando. xxj capitulum. 
 
 Agaloun muste from vnder feet do to 
 A stryk flour of newe whete, and hit let drie 520 
 In sunne; and wete hit eft and drie hit, do 
 Yet eft the same. In smallest loues plie. 
 And drie hit hard in sonne; in pottis trie; 
 Now gipse hit fast, and vse this ferment 
 ffor musty breed whom this wol condiment. 525 
 
 De vua passa Greca condienda. xxij capituZum. 
 
 The reysoun Greek in this maner they make: 
 They se where hongith grapis goode & swete. 
 The stortis softe in hondis wole they take, 
 And writhe hem, and so writhen wole they lete 
 Hem honge & drie awhile in sonnes hete; 530 
 
 And aftir hem in shadowe they suspende, 
 Her vessel while in dightyng they contende. 
 The leef of vyne, al drie & chillyng coold, 
 Vndir they do, and theryn grapes presse. 
 And with their hondis fast adoun hem foold, 535 
 
 So fille hit vp, and therto leues dresse. 
 In drie & cold ther smoke is noon expresse, 
 Hem kepith they. This October vpborn 
 With feet is as in Marche is seid biforn. 
 
 October. 106. [fol. 118.] 
 De horis Octdbris. xxiij copituZum. 
 
 The first & last hour xxv euen; 540 
 
 And next the first & last hour is xv. 
 The thridde hour from the first & last xj 
 
 514 Ms. serster, J5 sester. 525 wnl] added above in 
 
 A. 
 
232 October. [Book XI 
 
 Hath; and the firthe on viij is to sustene. 
 Next noon on eithir side, on six demene, 
 And noon hyni silf stont short on footis v. 545 
 
 And why? ffor Phebus so short made hy[m] thryue. 
 Deo gracias. 
 
 October spende, Sonne, Light superne: 
 
 Trine and Oon, louyng honour, empire 
 
 Withouten ende vnto Thy myght eterne! 
 
 That shyne & goon our pnncis flour aspire 450 
 
 Magre thy foon; so list vche hour, and gire 
 
 His spere aright that, sauyng Oon, so deer 
 
 Sterre is ther noon in al our emyspire; 
 
 Vndir whos sight y gynne on Nouembeer. 
 
 546 Ms. for. || Ms. hy, B him. 
 
XII. 
 NOUEMBER. 
 
 De satione tritici, farris, ordei, fabe & lenticnle. i capitulum. 
 
 Nouember wol y^ith whete & far be sowe 
 In lawful wise & with solemnyte; 
 V stryk vpon an aker is to strowe. 
 With barly wol this mone ek sowen be, 
 And benes, vnto greet felicite; 5 
 
 Eight faat or donged lond they loueth best, 
 Or valey ther hillis fatnesse hath rest. 
 
 And clodde^ hem large, as wel they may be wrie. [fol. 1 18a.] 
 
 Ek suwimen seyn the benes satioun 
 
 In placis coold is best to fructifie, 10 
 
 On hem yf me do noon occasioun, 
 
 ffor cloddis wol ther germinacioun 
 
 Obumbre from the coold, & wel defende. 
 
 They peireth lond but lite, & naught amende, 
 
 For Columelle affermeth that a feeld 15 
 
 flor whete is rather proued profitable 
 
 That bare is, than the feeld ther benes yeeld 
 
 Hath been. And for an aker faat is able 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 lines. In right margin: Nouember. 
 1 occa. 
 
234 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Six stryk to sowe, and lesse is aboundable 
 
 In mene lond. But sad lond wol the bene 20 
 
 Indwelle, and hatith nebulose and lene. 
 
 And when the mone is daies oold xv 
 
 And so not repercusse as of the sbnne, 
 
 Sowe hem; but other seyn bette is xiiij. 
 
 ffrom weedis they with capoun blood bironne 25 
 
 Beth saaf, as Grekis seyn that theron konne. 
 
 Too daies stept, anoon they wol arise. 
 
 Now lyne and puis is sowe as is the gise. 
 
 De pratis et de vitibns. Secundum copituZum. 
 
 lyj'ow mede is first to make, as seid is erst. 
 -L^ Now vynys sette in placis hoot & drie, 30 
 
 Now also to prouyne is not the werst 
 Yong vyne, & plauntis vmbideluyng hie; 
 And also hem that nakid beth let wrie. 
 Ek er then Ide vch merges curuature 
 Of thre yeer old kit from the roote, is sure. 35 
 
 Nouember. 107. [fol. 119.] 
 
 De vinea veteii in iugo vA percula repuranda. iij capitulum. 
 
 From liennes forth the vynys that trauayle 
 On perchis or forkis, and ouerlonge 
 [An] encumbraunce are and of nought auayle, 
 Bihold hem; yf their tronk be hool and stronge, 
 Ablaqueate hem, feede hem faat with donge, 40 
 
 And kitte hem short ouer the lond no v 
 ffeet long allyng, and thus make hem to thryue. 
 Ther as the grenest piece is of the rynde 
 Thy sharpist yron take, and with the poynt^ 
 On either side afore & also byhynde, 45 
 
 So goodly by & by hit is to poynt; 
 ffor Columelle affermyth in that ioynt 
 
 27 stept] e over erasure. 28 In left margin: 41, g. 
 
 34 Left margin: 37, h. 38 Ms. omits An, B An encombraunce are. 
 
 mucrone. 
 
Book XIIJ Nouember. 23B 
 
 To germyne, and in veer tlierout to stare 
 
 Mater thy vyne al newly to repare. 
 
 Be putandis vitibus <& arioribus ac oleo faciendo. iiij capitulum. 
 
 Putacioun autumnal celebrate 50 
 
 Is now in vyne & tre ther nys no coold. 
 Olyue is puld of colour variate; 
 Make oil of hem alblak on to biholde. 
 Olyue & other treen thus best is holde, 
 The croppe to kitte, and saue on euery side 55 
 
 The bowes [profluent] for fruyt tabide. 
 But where is lond vnkept and insolent, 
 Take from the tronke al clone, vntil so hie 
 As beestis may by noon experiment 
 Atteyne; and there let bowis multiplie, 60 
 
 And afterlong on euery side hem plie, 
 Salutyng^ eest & west, & north & south. 
 Yet alwey war the touche of beestis mouth. 
 
 De oUtietis ponendis <& curandis. v cajpitulum. [fol. 119 a.] 
 ril holyue is now ther lond is hoot and drie 
 J- Ysette as erst is seid. Wei wol this tre 65 
 
 Encrece in litel moyst and placis hie. 
 Wei froted, wold he fatte ydonged be, 
 And waggid with wynd of feracite. 
 An[d] cure hem as biforn. Now corbes fyne 
 Beth maad; in temper lond eke oil lauryne. 70 
 
 De albo vlpico cepulis S plantis carduarum. vj capitulum. 
 rr^his mone vlpike & garlec is to sowe; 
 J- White erthe hit wol, doluen withouten donge. 
 Maak redes ^ in the bord, and ther bistowe 
 Hem in the coppe, atwene in brede & longe, 
 ffyngris but iiij ek deep sette is their wronge. 75 
 
 51 Ms. vynys, B vyne. 55 Ms. sawe, B saue. 56 Ms. 
 omits proiluent, B profluent. 65 In left margin: 97; e, f, s. 
 
 69 Ms. baskettis corbes fyne, B has the same (of. Ill; 216). 
 69 Ms. An, B And. 
 
 1 vel loutyng tort. 2 succulos {sic). 
 
236 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 And wede hem wel, so wol they wexe fele. 
 
 But forto hede hem gret, trede dou« the stele; 
 
 So shal the iuce into their hedis go. 
 
 And whenne the mone is doun, also thei telle, 
 
 Hem yf me sowe and pulle hem vp also, 80 
 
 Of cruelte no thing wole in hem smelle. 
 
 In chaf or smoke ykept wel wol they dwelle. 
 
 Now oynouws sowe, and tasuP in his place 
 
 Let plaunte, and cunel sowe, ek armarace. 
 
 -De persico, pinu, prnnis, castaneis & alijs pomis. vij c™. 
 
 Now ther is hoot, and ell in lanyueer, 85 
 
 The pechis boon in pastyne is to sette; 
 To sundre hem too footis best hit were. 
 The plauntes spronge, into other placis fette 
 And sette hem, depe iij or ij hondis mette. 
 But picche adoun the poynt intort the grounde. 90 
 Another craft yet other folk han founder 
 
 Nouember. 108. [fol. 120.] 
 The bones to be sette first wol they drye 
 A dayes fewe; and thenne in askis molde 
 They mynge, and hit they into skeppis^ trie; 
 In this their dried bones wol they holde. 95 
 
 I say that men myght kepe hem as they wolde, 
 And eriwhere also say I they sprynge; 
 Yet sum place hath best and lengest durynge — 
 Ther warm aier is and grauel londis weete; 
 ffor ther is cold and wyndy they wol dye, 100 
 
 If no defence away the coldia bete. 
 And delue hem ofte, eke herbis vtter trye. 
 Transplauute hem too yeer old to multiplie 
 In delues short, and nygh ychon tyl other, 
 That from the storm of hete vche helpe his brother. 105 
 
 77 trede] d altered from t. 99 weete] second e added 
 
 above in same hamd. 
 
 1 carduum. 2 quales. 
 
Book XII] Nouember. 237 
 
 Ablaquyatynge hem in heruest hie, 
 
 Her owne foiles yef hem as for donge. 
 
 And kitte of euery roten thyng or drie, 
 
 fk)T grene yf that me kitte of, that is wronge — 
 
 That sleeth hem vp. Ek soke yf the be longe, 110 
 
 Wyndreggis old in water let infounde; 
 
 Yef hem this drynke, anoon they wole he sounde. 
 
 And Grekis sayn that pechis me may make 
 
 Ywriton growe, yf tliat me first hem sette, 
 
 And after dayes vij vp hem take; ■ 115 
 
 By thenne out wol a spronke of hem be lette 
 
 Vppon the shelle; and out the curnel fette, 
 
 And write on what thee list with cynabare; 
 
 To close anoon the boon theron do care. 
 
 Their kyndis beth: oon is pecheArmenye [fol. 120a.] 120 
 
 Precox is next, the thridde is duracyne — 
 
 But yf this tree to sore in sonne drie, 
 
 Hepe erthe aboute and homour vespertyne. 
 
 Ek thing obiect the feruour of declyne. 
 
 A serpent skyn doon on this tre men lete 125 
 
 Auaylaunt be to saue hit in greet hete. 
 
 For frostis now do donge aboute a peche, 
 
 Or water myxt wyndregges. Or the best 
 
 Of benes boyled water may be leche 
 
 To sle the frost; and yf wormys vnrest J 30 
 
 Hem, aske oildregges myxt on hem be kest, 
 
 Or ox taigh with the thridde part aysel — 
 
 Ereither kest on hem wol sle hem wel. 
 
 The fruyt caduke is goodly thus to cure: 
 
 Of therebynte or birche into the roote J 85 
 
 108 of] added above in same hand. 118 cynabare] 
 
 glossed in right margin : cinabarum fit ex sulpliure & argento uiuo. 
 124 Ms. abiect, B obiect. 125 Ms. lette, B lete. 133 Ereither] 
 re added in same hand, r on the line, e above. 
 
238 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Or truak indrive a pyn, and hit is sure. 
 
 ffor fallyng fruyt or holdyng forth to roote, 
 
 The myddil into bore also is boote, 
 
 And put a saly stake in hit. With craft 
 
 ffro rotyng & ryuyng they be byraft: 140 
 
 Lowe on the trunke as wounde hym in the rynde ; 
 
 A lite homour whanne out of hit is runne, 
 
 With chaued cley the wounde ayeyn do bynde. 
 
 And whanne their flouryng is so biguwne, 
 
 While thr[i]e aboute his cours gireth the sunne, 145 
 
 With sestris iij of gootis mylk hem wete, 
 
 And ther wol be the peches swete and grete. 
 
 Nouember. 109. [fol. 121.] 
 Yppon their bowes spartea to honge 
 Is good for hem; or sparte^ v[n]til hem bynde. 
 In lanyueer or ffeueryeer no wronge 150 
 
 Is graffyng hem, but cordyng to their kynde, 
 If lond be coold. And hoot lond yf they fynde, 
 In Nouember. But liaak their graffis lowe 
 And nygh the stok, for gladdist wol thei growe. 
 The toppis takith not, or nought endure. 155 
 
 Graffe in hym self or plumme or almauntre; 
 But Armenye and Precoqua beth sure 
 In plumme. In almaunt, durycynys be 
 Lengest to growe in meest fertilite. 
 Aprile & May hem wol enoculayre^ 160 
 
 Ther as the lond is hoot in placis faire. 
 Ttalyens enoculacioun 
 
 In thende of May or nygh ther luyn bigynne 
 In peches sayn good occupacioun. 
 Emplasturyng of hem eke is no synne, 165 
 
 141 Ms. Sowe, -B Lowe. 145 Ms. thre, B thrie. 
 
 148 Ms. do, B to. 149 Ms. vtil, B vntil. 154 Ms. ffor. 
 
 1 spartum. 2 inoculare. 
 
Book XIl] Nouember. 239 
 
 And rede oute of the plane ygraffed wynne. 
 
 The duracyne is kept in oximelle 
 
 With dreggis myxt, wel forto taste & smelle. 
 
 The bonys oute, as figgis summen drie 
 
 Hem and suspende. Ek y ha seen the bonys 170 
 
 Detracte of duracyne in hony trie, 
 
 So kept that gladder tastyng neuer noon is. 
 
 Hoot picche a droppe yf into vch avel^ gon is. 
 
 That so they be coart to swynime in sape — 
 
 Enclude hem, and al harm they shal escape. 175 
 
 [fol. 121 a.] 
 They sayn the pyne^ vnto al thyng Ynder sowe 
 Is commodose. And his sowing is this: 
 His curnels^ wol in hoot & drier growe 
 In October or Nouember not mys; 
 In ffeueryeer or Marche, ther coold weet is. 180 
 
 In smal lond nygh the see among the hillis 
 And stonys wide & fresh, this tre at wille is. 
 In wyndy moyst encreceth they right grete. ' ' 
 But with this tre what ground euere shal growe. 
 As is for other treen is not to trete; 185 
 
 But p[l]owe hit, whete on hit as me wold sowe. 
 And right as whete in hit the sedis sowe. 
 And wrie hit light, an hondbrede hit dcscende. 
 And let no beest his tender youthe offende. 
 Thre dayes watteryng vp helpith eke 190 
 
 To grete encrece, and his translacioun 
 The pynys fruyt [wol] esy make and moke 
 Ek plauntis han this procuracioun 
 Vnto their gret multiphca[ci]oun : 
 
 166 Ms. plane is graffed, B plane ygraffed. 170 3Is. 
 
 haseen. 180 Ms. ffeueryeer. 180 Ms. powe, S plowe. 
 
 190 watteryng] e added above in same hand. 192 Ms. omits 
 
 wol, B wol. 194 Ms. multiplicaoun, B multiplicacioun. 
 
 1 vmbilicum. 2 pin«s. 3 nuclei. 
 
240 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 That first is doon the seed with molde & donge 195 
 
 In skeppis vnder lond to ere vp yonge; 
 
 "Whan they come vp the smallest fro they do, 
 
 So that the saddist faster may ascende; 
 
 At thre yeer old, this skeppis broken fro, 
 
 In delues large adoun shal they descende. 200 
 
 And donge, as myche as molde, aboute hem spende ; 
 
 A flake of this, a flake of that they make. 
 
 So hath a kake of molde of donge a kake. 
 
 Nouember. 110. [fol. 122.] 
 But se wel that the cheef rote oon directe 
 Be hool translate vnto his suramyte, 205 
 
 Withonten hurt, and in no wise enfecte. 
 Putacioun so helpith hem to the, 
 That too so high ascende hem shal me se 
 As me wol wene; and their nuttis abide 
 "Wol on the tre and ripe vntil this tyde; 210 
 
 Yet pulle hem rather than they flete atwynne. 
 Their nuttis must be clensid forto kepe; 
 Newe erthen pottis summen kepe hem ynne. 
 So they in erthe & with their shellis slepe. 
 Now plommes boon to sowe is too bond depe 215 
 In lond subact. The same in ffeueryeer 
 ffirst stept in lie, vp goth with gladder cheer. 
 This plaunte is sette, vptake in lanyveer 
 As from the codde, and nygh the monys eende. 
 Or plaunte hem nygh the Ide of ffeueryeer, 220 
 
 The rootis wel in dongyuge vmbiwende. 
 In faat lond moyst thei ioyfuUiche ascende. 
 And ther is warm eke hugely they bolde; 
 Yet not for thy thei may endure in colde. 
 Ther cleyi londis are and lapidose, 225 
 
 With donge is good to helpe hem & excuse 
 
 215 Ms. ben, B boon. 217 Ms. with good cheer, B 
 
 with gladder chere. 
 
Book XII] Nouember. 241 
 
 Lest their fruyt falle and be vermiculose. 
 
 The plauntis from the rootis ek refuse 
 
 Not vp to pulle; ek plauntis fair excuse 
 
 To stonde vnpuld, that they be not to seke*. 230 
 
 And hele in this maner tlii prunys seke^: 
 
 Oyldreggis' watertemprid euenly [fol. 122 a.] 
 
 Let kest on hem, or ox vryne alone, 
 
 Or old vryne admyxt vneuenly 
 
 With water partis too ; or of an one ^ 235 
 
 Askis, and rathest of sarment, be done 
 
 On hem. And yf caduk their fruytis be, 
 
 Dryue in the roote of olyastre tre. 
 
 Rubrike and taar" wormys & auntis sleth, 
 
 Doon esy on for harmyng of the tre, 240 
 
 Lest medycyne eschaunge into the deth. 
 
 Ydoluen ofte & weet, holpen they be. 
 
 They graffed are in Marche extremyte. 
 
 In trunke or rynde. Hem graffeth also sumrae 
 
 In lanyveer er then they wepe gumme. 245 
 
 In almaunt, in hymsilf, in malo, in peche 
 
 Is graffid plomme. And plowimes summen drie. 
 
 And hem on fleykis kepe; and other teche 
 
 Whan seewater or dreggis boilyng frie. 
 
 The plommes fresh collect therinto trie. 250 
 
 Hem taken up so drieth they in Sonne 
 
 Or in an oven' luke, and they beth wonne. 
 
 Chasten* wol vp of plauntis that alone 
 
 Vpgrowe, or of his seedis multiplie. 
 
 The plaunte in yeeris too wole gynne grone 255 
 
 ffor seek, and perauenture he wol dye. 
 
 • 249 seewater] first e added above. 251 Ms. so up so 
 
 with stroke of s in Snd. so doubled, B uppe so. 255 Ms. 
 
 growe, -B grone. 
 
 1 qttaerende. ^ languidas. 3 armucam (sic). * locium (lotium). 
 B furno. 6 pix liquida. '^ furno. ^ castanea. 
 
 16 
 
242 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 ffresh, ripe, & grete of hem to sette outrie; 
 In Nouember hem sette and vp they crepe. 
 And thus to sowe in ffeueryeer hem kepe: 
 
 Nouember. 111. [fol. 123.] 
 Drie hem in shade and hem to gidre hepe; 260 
 
 With flood grauel let diligence hem wrie, 
 And XXX dayes vnder that hem kepe; 
 Then doon of that, hem into water trie, 
 Ther swymmyth seeke, & hoole adoun wol hie. 
 Ayeyn the goode vndir grauel be do, 265 
 
 And tried efte; and thries preue hem so. 
 Hem that remayne al sikur maystow sowe. 
 Summe in grauel hem closith and so kepe\ 
 In lond solute and softe vp wole they growe. 
 But as of grauel lond no thing they kepe^. 270 
 
 In sondy loud they stonde yf that hit wepe; 
 Blaak erthe is apte, and lond carbunculyne; 
 And ragstoon^ alto rapte*, is for hem digne. 
 
 They growe vnnethe in sad lond or rubrik, 
 
 And for no thing the cley [they] may not vse. 275 
 
 The cold estate of heuen wel they like, 
 
 A party warme also they not refuse, 
 
 Ner clyues ther humour is not excluse. 
 
 They loueth derk Septemtrioun biholde, 
 
 And best in pastynatid lond thei holde. 280 
 
 Pastyne hit depe a foote & half, or plowe 
 
 Hit by & by, & wel with donge hit feede, 
 
 And theryn do thy chastyns forto growe; 
 
 A foote depe the crafte is hem to seede. 
 
 Sette vp a stick vppon hem thee to leede, 285 
 
 258 Ms. Nouembre, B November. 260 Ms. kepe, B hepe. 
 275 Ms. omits they, B thai. 278 Erasure before excluse. 
 
 285 Ms. stryke, B stick. 
 
 1 custodiunt. 2 optant. 3 tofus * confractiM. 
 
Book Xn] Nouember. 243 
 
 And sette in euery stede or iij or v, 
 
 But footis iiij a sender, hem to thryue. 
 
 Transplauntynge hem is best at yeeris too, [fol. 123a.] 
 
 So gutt[er]yng the water from hem shelue; 
 
 Yf water stonde on hem, they beth fordo. 290 
 
 Also this tre may pleched be hym selue. 
 
 Ek bysily the yonge hit is to delue. 
 
 In Marche. and September putacioun 
 
 To chasten is incrementacioun. 
 
 They graffed beth in rynde^ as y ha preued, 295 
 
 I[n] Marche and in Aprile, and right wel do. 
 
 Inoculyng also in hem hath chened. 
 
 In saly yf me graffe hem, forth they go. 
 
 And ripith late, and tasteth not but so. 
 
 Chasteyn[i]s kest on fleykis me may kepe, 300 
 
 Or vnder sond a sender leid to slepe. 
 
 And other hem in erthen pottis do. 
 
 And delueth hem in placis that beth drie. 
 
 In bechen baskettis men saue also' 
 
 This fruyt, so they [with cley] be staunche ywrie, 305 
 
 Or smellest barly chaf aboute hem plie; 
 
 Or baskettis of seggis me may vse, 
 
 So they be thykke, and saue ther recluse. 
 
 This mone in place[s drie] and regiouns coolde, 
 
 The piry wilde^ is sette, graffed to be; 310 
 
 Citur^ & quynce^ ek pomgarnat* to holde, 
 
 The serue and medler & selyque tre, 
 
 The mollebery, the chery, and figtre, 
 
 289 Ms. guttyng, B gutteryng. 290 on] n added above 
 
 in hand A. 291 pleched] c altered from s. 296 Ms. I, 
 
 B in. 300 Ms. Chasteyns, B Chasteynes. !| fleykisj k added on 
 
 the line and is above, in hand A. 305 Ms. omits with cley, B 
 with cley. 308 Ms. their, B ther. 309 Ms. in place and r., 
 B in places and K. [Lat. locis oalidis ac siccis regionibus.) 
 
 1 pirus agrestt«s. 2 citrus. 3 cydoneus. i malum punicum 
 
 1R» 
 
 16* 
 
S44 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Almaundis & luglande in semynaire, 
 
 A[s] crafte is taught biforn, is to repaire. 315 
 
 Nouember. 112. [fol. 124.] 
 De opifeus. Capitulum octauum. 
 
 At gynnyng of this nioone, of thamaryke^ 
 And other flouris wylde vseth the bee^ 
 Hony, though hit be smal, sumdel to pyke; 
 Their wynter store is resoun that hit be.* 
 Now clensed al their housis is to se, 320 
 
 ffor wynter meuyng lyk is hem to harme; 
 But do this in a faire day & a warme. 
 Let swepe* hem with a wynge, & with a penne 
 Or fether of a foul, ther as an honde 
 May not come to, pike al the filthis thenne.^ 325 
 
 Stoppe euery chene aboute her housis fonde 
 With cleyed donge, and ouer ther they stonde 
 A tegument of brom or suche extende, 
 Hem fro tempest & cooldis to defende. 
 
 BemeMum vitibns. Cajpitulum ix. 
 
 In placis glade & warme, yf vyne abounde 330 
 
 In leef & haue of fruyt but pouerte, 
 Now kitte hem short, & they wole be fecownde. 
 In cold lond this in ffeueryeer doon be,' 
 And yf they mende not, yheped se 
 Askis or flood grauel aboute her roote 335 
 
 That summen stones dryue into for boote. 
 
 [Bemedimn sterili viti. x capitulum.] 
 
 The same place & tyme, a bareyn vyne 
 Is thus to cure: his stok is first to cleue 
 And ther enclude a stoon; ek old vryne 
 Let cotuls" iiij aboute hit helde at eue; 340 
 
 315 Ms. A crafte, B As crafte. || In left margin: 90; f, g. 
 316 Rubric in hand A. 330 Rubric in hand A. 337 Rubric 
 omitted. 
 
 1 thamaride (sic). 2 apes. 3 fit_ 4 scopare. ^ jnde. ^ cu- 
 tulas (sic). 
 
Book XIIj Nouember. 245 
 
 And al the molde aboute is to remeue, 
 That this Hcour the rootes to descende. 
 Ek ley to lond & donge, and they wole mende. 
 
 [fol. 124 a.]* 
 De rosario ex paucis virgulis instituendo. xi capitulum. 
 
 Rosair^ in ffeueryeer al though me make, 
 Now make hit ther is warme & nygh the see. 345 
 The geramy graffys with their crokis^ take 
 Of fyngris iiij. ypleshed is to se 
 Wei donged and ywattered to be; 
 And oon yeer old transplaunte hem forth to stonde. 
 So braunches fewe vpfille a huge londe. 350 
 
 Vt vua vsgue ad ver servetur in vite. xij capitulum. 
 
 The Grekis seyn that grapes in their vyne 
 Til veer is thus to kepe: aboute a tre 
 In shady place, impleet of grapes fyne, 
 Let make a delf iij footis deep to be 
 And brood too foote, and sond inkest thou se; 355 
 Ther cannes styke; on hem sarmentis^ plie, 
 With grapes faire & sounde aparty hie; 
 To wrie hem that no reyn vppon hem drepe. 
 They sayn eke fruyt or grape in tre or vyne 
 With erthen pottis thus a man may kepe: 360 
 
 This fruyt in hem suspended to reclyne, 
 And wrie hem that noon ayer vppon hem shyne; 
 So beth they saaf. Eke appules brought a slope 
 In gips *, to longe abide and neuere wepe. 
 
 De gregttms ouilli generis et caprini ae ordine paseendi. xiij ca^. 
 
 First in this mono is generacioun 365 
 
 Of lambes. That is, sone as they be born, 
 
 343 Erasure before mende. 344 In left margin- 41; 
 
 d, e, f. 348 ywattered] first e added above tt. 351 Rubric] 
 
 Ms. veer. 1| The] has small initial. 367 Ms. as. 
 
 1 rosarium. 2 gonicMlis. 3 s. scions. * gipso. 
 • Verses 344:— 585 are torn out of B. 
 
246 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Attende vppon this ocupacioun, 
 
 That fro their modir teetis^ they be torn. 
 
 The formest rayl[k] clept boystyng^, out aforn 
 
 Let heerdis mylke — vnese hit myght hem do; 370 
 
 And close hem with her dammes d.ayes too. 
 
 Nouember. 113. [fol. 125.] 
 And aftir close hem warme in place obscure, 
 The dammes flokked forth & hoom at eue. 
 And til the lamb be strengthed to pasture, 
 Hym first and last his modir mylk releue. 375 
 
 With bran^, medik*, or barly flour bouncheue 
 Also they wole. And whan they wexeth stronge, 
 Do with their damme afeeld this babis yonge. 
 Sheep pasture is in falowis", medys drie; 
 The mersh* is nought, and wodis wollis tere. 380 
 Ek salt among their fodder is to strie, 
 Or in their drynke — hit hugely wole chere 
 Thi sheep. And lest the wynter hungur dere, 
 With hay or chaf or ficche is hem to feede, 
 Or yef hem elm or asshen leef for neede. 385 
 
 Pasture hem first ther gresse is dewy, swete; 
 Then oures foure aftir the sonne ascende, 
 And doun on hem descende, a feruent hete, 
 To welle or flood the flook be brought on ende 
 Their mouthes drie on wateris to spende. 390 
 
 And when the sonne is oner hoot and hie, 
 With shade of hille or wodis thou hem wrie. 
 Westynge' the sunne and waynyng of the hete, 
 At ascendence of dewes vespertyne 
 The flok vnto the pasture is to trete. 395 
 
 But while hete of Canyculers shyne, 
 
 369 Ms. myl. 
 
 1 vberibiM. 2 colostra. 3 furfure. * medica. 5 noualibiw 
 protis. 6 pallustria (sic). 7 tendente ad occidentem. 
 
Book XII] Nouember. 247 
 
 Pasture hem that their hedis ay declyne 
 ffrommart the Sonne. In veer & wynter tyne^ 
 Hem intil frost be goon, and hoor pruyne. 
 
 The Grekish sheep and also Tarentyne [fol. 125a.] 400 
 
 In housis fedde [ar], rather then pasture; 
 
 And hem on bored plankis they reclyne, 
 
 ffor fowlyng of their precious tecture, 
 
 Wherof to make is mannys couerture, 
 
 That is their flees^. Ek wasshen iij a yeer, 405 
 
 With oil and wyn tennoynte hit is mysteer. 
 
 For serpentis that ofte vnder the foolde 
 
 Wol dare, is cedur brent, or hertis horn. 
 
 Or wymmen heer; galbane ek good is hoolde 
 
 To brenne, so this wormys to be lorn. 410 
 
 Goot bukkis^ from females now forborn 
 
 Ne may not be, that they at veer the prime 
 
 May kidis haue acordyng to the tyme. 
 
 That bukke is best that hath vndir his chekis 
 
 Twey wartis* smale; and grete ycorsid be 415 
 
 That theyed faat & short yneckid eke is. 
 
 And hath an heed of htel quantite. 
 
 Bent ered & white hered thou hym se, 
 
 So hit be thikke & longe. Ek oon yeer oolde 
 
 Is good, & so til sixe on wol he holde. 420 
 
 The goot be bodied like, with pappes grete, — 
 
 Ha not so fele of hem as of the sheepe. 
 
 Ivy, crabtre, & lentiske hedes mete. 
 
 Is good to make hem mylk outrennyng wepe. 
 
 They thre yeer oold their birthis best vp kepe, 425 
 
 And hem that yonger kyde is best to sle. 
 
 At viij yeer age also their dammes fle. 
 
 399 goon] 3nd. o looks like u. 401 Ms. fedde rather. 
 
 1 Claude. 2 yell us. 3 hirci. ^ verruculas. 
 
248 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Nouember. 114. [fol. 126.] 
 Be glandibus legendis. xiiij capitulum. De materia cedenda. xv 
 capitulum. 
 
 NOW mast^ to glene^ out goth womman & childe. 
 And now is tyme, in wanyng of the moone, 
 Tymber to falle, yf that thou thynke bilde. 430 
 
 But hewe hem half a too is first to done, 
 That humour out may renne; and not to sone 
 Hem smyte doun. Of grest vtilite 
 Is fyr*, and meest of durabilite. 
 
 Fyr first is stronge & best, enduryng longe; 435 
 
 Next is larex; for fyir is hit so sure 
 That gablis yf tliyn housis therof fonge. 
 And tabhs yndir tilyng, ha no cure 
 ffor brennyng of thyn hous, for hit wole dure 
 And nought enflaume. Oolt* is also durable, 440 
 
 And as for erthe werkis profitable. 
 For bildyng ek escule^ is good raateer; 
 Chasteyne is wondir sad, and in the feelde 
 Or hous or vtter werkis or entier, 
 ffor drie or wete hit neuer wol hit yelde;" 445 
 
 Sauyng his wight, ek no vice hit may yelde.' 
 Beche* he wole rote in wete, in drie endure, 
 And populer the same is in nature. 
 Saly® & lynde^" is needful in sculpture. 
 An hous [y]maad of aller is but shent; 450 
 
 Yet ther the ground is myre, weet, vnsure. 
 Pile in aller as for the fundament. 
 Ek elm & asshe ydried beth rigent. 
 And while they beth vndried, so curuable, 
 ffor shippis that they beth right profitable. 455 
 
 433 In right margin: Sinoopa. 436 Ms. ffor. 439 Ms. 
 ffor. 450 Ms. maad. 
 
 1 glandes. 2 ooUigere. 3 abies. * quercws. B iesculus. 
 6 dedere. '^ reddere. 8 fagus. 9 salix. lo tilia. 
 
Book XII] Noucmbor. 249 
 
 Cupresse a nobul tre! Good is carpyne.^ [fol. 126 a.] 
 
 The pyne^ ek ther as drie is wol endure. 
 
 That he ne rote y fond a craft in Sardyne: 
 
 The hemes that to werkis beth future, 
 
 A twelmonth to be Icid in water pure, 460 
 
 Or in grauel vndir the sees brinke, 
 
 At euery flood salt water so to drynke. 
 
 Cedur vnwet wol dure. Ek on the south 
 
 In tymbur fald is more vtilite 
 
 Then that is in the northern wyndis mouth; 465 
 
 Yet is hit streighter feir vppon to se. 
 
 Now ther is drie & hoot a gretter tre 
 
 Transplaunted be, the bowes liole & roote ; 
 
 But wete hym ofte, and donge abouto hym wrote. 
 
 De oleo faciendo. Decimum septimum capitalam. 
 
 The' Grekis seyn that oylis forto make, 470 
 
 As mych olyue as me may presse ere eve 
 Ipiked, is the mylle vnto to take, 
 Goyng suspense her bones not to greue. 
 Of flesh oonly the first oylo best wol preue 
 In basketis" of wythy twiggis wrought. 475 
 
 The noblest and best oyle first is sought — 
 
 That oil is best that flowith out allone. 
 
 With walkers* cley is salt so doon therto, 
 
 The spissitude of hit to ha fordone; 
 
 And whanne her dregges sattled doun beth go, 480 
 
 At dayes thries x is hit to do 
 
 In glas vessel. And aftir oil secounJe 
 
 Is maad, that on a sadder mylle is grounde. 
 
 461 Ms. brynge. 467' In left margin in red: xvi cap™. 
 
 468 roote] o added above. 469 hym] y altered from e. 474 wol] 
 final e erased. 
 
 1 carpinws. 2 pinus. 3 canistris. * nitro. 
 
250 Nouember. [Book XH 
 
 Nouember. 115. [fol. 127.] 
 Vt oleum simile liburnico fiat, xviij copitulum. 
 
 Ek seith the Greek ylike lyburnyke oil ys 
 A man may make his oil[e] grene & best: 485 
 Drie violette,, ek laure & cipre^ foylis, 
 Igrounde al smal, with saltes al to threst, 
 Idried — kest in al this and vnrest 
 Hit vexing longe; and aftir let hit stonde 
 A while, and vse hit — good hit shal be fonde. 490 
 
 [Vt oleum sordidum purges.] Capitulam decimum nonum. 
 
 If oil be foule, taak hoot salt alto grounde, 
 And kest hit in, and diligently wrie. 
 And in a while al pure hit wole be fonde. 
 And yf hit be not sauered worth a flie, 
 Olyues grene ygrounde in hit let stie, 495 
 
 The bonys piked out. ffor oon metrete, 
 Too chonykes to kest is mesure mete. 
 Ther bayes lakke, olyues croppis bray 
 An[d] kest in with. And suwime it wol suspende 
 In thoil vessel vntyl the thridde day, 500 
 
 Inwith a shete; and tho iij dayes spende, 
 They vessel hit. And other inte hit sende 
 Old tile maad hoot, and summen in a shete 
 Suspendith barly breed hit forte swete, 
 And whan they hem ha chaunged twye or thrie, 505 
 Into other lomes wole they hit translate, 
 And salt vpon [hit] suffisauntly strie. 
 Ek yf a beest in hit be deed of late 
 Or longe, ensclaundryng thodoures state, 
 
 485 Ms. oil grene. 487^8. saltest. 491 Ms. Rubric incom- 
 plete. II Ms. Iff. 499 Ms. An kest. || wol] final e erased. 501 shete] 
 Ms. swete, (Lat. intra linteum). 502 irite] e altered from o. 
 
 505 Initial omitted by rubricator. 507 Ms. vpon suffisauntly. 
 
 cipej'um. 
 
Book XII] Nouember. 261 
 
 In oon metrete an handful coriauwder 510 
 
 Wol voide away the vile odoures sclaundcr. 
 
 Horrend odour perchaunce abidith stille; [fol. 127a.] 
 
 Let chaunge, aud putte in coriaunder newe, 
 
 And chaunge hit ofte vntil hit better smylle, 
 
 And forto taaste vpon be not eschewe. 515 
 
 At dales sixe ek best is hit remewe 
 
 To lomes newe, other to vessel clene^, 
 
 With vynegre other with aysel maad clene^. 
 
 And other stampith seedis of feyn Greek, 
 
 And kest hem yn. Ek summen broondes tende 520 
 
 Of olyue tre, and in this licour seek 
 
 Hem quencheth they, the sauour forto amende. 
 
 Yf hit be sour, let into hit descende 
 
 That al forbrayed grapis excrement, 
 
 On ballis maad, in seruyng thyn entent. 525 
 
 [De oleo rancido ctirandoj Capitalum vicesimum prhnuin. 
 
 For brousty^ oil. whit wex is to resolue 
 In fynest oil, and theryn throwe hit so; 
 Hoot salt ygrounde is on hit to dissolue. 
 And in a vessel cleyed al be do; 
 So wol hit mende odour and taast also. 530 
 
 In erthe vche oil to kepe, is his nature 
 Whom salt or fir or water hoot may pure. 
 
 De condiendis oUuis. xxij capitalnm. 
 
 This moone is maad olyue in condiment; 
 That is dyuers: oon olyf Columbare* 
 Ther flakith first, olyue as fundament, 535 
 
 And after that the pulioles are; 
 A flake on that hony and saltis rare, 
 
 Vv. 519 — 525 are partly torn out of B; for what remains 
 see Appendix. 527 Fart of rubric omitted;] B omits alto- 
 
 1 munda. 2 recensita recensita (sic), s rancido. * columbaris. 
 
252 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 Or flake olyue; and fenel graffes be 
 Theron, or birche or dile or olyue tre. 
 
 Nouembre. 116. [fol. 128.] 
 Of aysel oon emyne'^ on hit they slake; 540 
 
 They keste also theron of barmys^ rude. 
 So shal hit rise alwey flake aftir flake, 
 Vntil the vessel haue his plenitude. 
 This thyng so ful, is goodly forto enclude. 
 Elite olyues xl dayes stepe^ 545 
 
 In oil barm*, and thanne out the barni^ let drepe; 
 
 Of aisel oon, of defrut partes too, 
 
 And niynte yhewe as smal as hit may be, 
 
 Kest into these olyues; fiUe hit so 
 
 That they oner the brinkis fleting se. 550 
 
 Olyue vnhurt, in vaporosite 
 
 Of bathes oon nyght be on fleyke or table; 
 
 And so a morow salted, they beth able; 
 
 So beth they oonly dayes viij endured. 
 
 Olyue vnhurt, in barm" of oil is do, 555 
 
 That aftir xl dayes vp is pured; 
 
 And swetter forto haue hit, do therto 
 
 Too partis sape, and aisel oon; also 
 
 To haue hit sharp, of aisel tweyne infounde 
 
 And oon of sape, as may the sharp abounde. 560 
 
 A sester passe', a yespon^ al to grounde 
 
 Of cyner", of old wyn a quantite; 
 
 ffoil of cupresse a part in hit contounde.^" 
 
 Let menge al this; olyues now let se, 
 
 541 In right margin: Emia {sic) est sexterii medietas. 
 Sextarium continet sex libras. Vv. 540—551 are torn out of B. 
 See Appendix. 552 Ms. mygbt, B nyght. 
 
 1 eminam. '-^ murie. 3 macera. * rauria. ^ muriam. 
 muria. '? passi. 8 quantum miams utraqwe capere possit. 
 cineris. i" contunde. 
 
Book XII] Nouember. 253 
 
 Suche as vnhurt beth, taken from the tre, 565 
 
 Don in and dreynt; a crust vpon bit make, 
 And fille hit to the brinke vntil hit take. 
 
 Olyues that me fyndeth lying crispe, [fol. 128a.] 
 
 "With rugis drawe, in salt it is to sprynge^; 
 
 But first with hondis hem to gidre rispe; 570 
 
 So let hem take in sonne a welowynge. 
 
 Ley vnder laure, and flakis vp let springe^. 
 
 Defrute and saturey a yespon be 
 
 Yboyled as with wattris too or thre. 
 
 Whenne hit is colde vppon this bayes keste 576 
 
 Hit, and a litel salt be doon therto. 
 
 A bundel origane in hit doth beste. 
 
 With bayes puld ek other men thus do: 
 
 They takith rue^ and persely also; 
 
 This coucliith they bitwene in euery place, 580 
 
 And aftir hepe vppon salt cymynace. 
 
 Aysel theron and hony wol they slake, 
 
 And last of fynest oil a quantite. 
 
 Ek of the tre beth puld olyues blake; 
 
 They with oil barm* compoost, vp wasshon be. 585 
 
 Too doole hony to boyle oon of wyn se, 
 
 Defructe half that, ydoon; and boiled so, 
 
 Let stire hit wel and aysel mynge into; 
 
 And strowe on origan, cold yf hit be. 
 
 Olyues puld with hondis, pedifete 590 
 
 And al, be water sprongen dayes thre; 
 
 Thenne intil barm* of oil is hem to trete. 
 
 A senyght past, into sum lome" hem gete, 
 
 569 Ms. bi added above to in hand A and inverted caret 
 between to and sprynge. 586 doole] o added above. 593 In 
 left margin: sincopa. 
 
 1 aspergere. 2 exurgere. 3 rucam. * muria. 5 muriam. 6 vas. 
 
2B4 Nouember. [Book XII 
 
 "With must and eysel flUe til hit flowe; 
 
 And wrie hit, holis leuynge vp to blowe. 595 
 
 Nouember. 117. [fol. 129.] 
 
 De horis. Vicesimum tercium capitulum. 
 
 AS ffeueryeer forth goth Nouember mone: 
 On xxvij feet eerly and late, 
 And next to hem xvj vprenneth sone. 
 Xiij is thridde, and firthe in x hath state. 
 Mydday & ouernoon til viij abate. 600 
 
 A mydde is noon vpstondyng right for vij, 
 As 1 seide erst, yf that y metred even. 
 Deo gracias. 
 
 Thus bokis twelue anende, and oon is rest, 
 
 Hit selue vnbende vppon, which book is laste.^ 
 
 kyngis Kyng, Lord, Thyng hiest, 605 
 
 Louyng record and rynge her stryngis chaste 
 
 To thyn honour; of fyn sauour that haste 
 
 A flour to taste, odour to caste. Al yeer 
 
 Thy due attende, of fuke vnblende, or laste^ 
 
 Vnshende, and ende vs sende of Decembeer. 610 
 
 595 blowe] Ms. plowe. 598 Schneider's text has „Hora 
 
 11 et X, pedes". 601 vpstondyng] Ms. vnstondyng. 602 In 
 right margin: 93; b. 607 sauour] Ms. fauour. 
 
 1 vltimus. 2 defectu. 
 
D 
 
 XIIL 
 DECEMBEE. 
 
 De serendis frwmentis, faba & lini semine. i copitulum. 
 ecember hath al maner whete ysowe 
 And barly als, as in the last sesoun. 
 The benes lete at Idws vij throwe 
 
 In lond, for aftir wynter is no resouw 
 
 To sowe hem — ■ Why? ffor then her thrift is gesoun. 5 
 
 Vnto the forseid Ide ek of December, 
 
 Lynseed^ to sowe is needful to remember. 
 
 De faciendis pasfinis S cedenda mateiie. ij copitulum. [fol. 129 a.], 
 
 Aftir this monys Ide in pastynynge 
 Is good to delue, as taught is albiforn. 
 Of tymber now is also good fallynge; 10 
 
 Now stakis make, and lepes for thy corn; 
 Now oil of laure & mirtis bay is torn, 
 And of lentiske. Bk maad is wyn mirtite, 
 As seid is erst, whoos hath theryn delite. 
 
 1 Initial embraces 5 verses; the small initials of the 
 remaining two verses have been omitted by the rubricator. The 
 title of the month is in the right margin. 12 Marginal note 
 
 to laure: 30; c, &c. 13 Marginal note to wyn: 51; e, & 
 
 52; f, g. 
 
 1 lini semen. 
 
2-56 Decembre. [Book XIII 
 
 De herhis in ortis. iij eapitulum. 
 
 The letusc in this raoone is so to sowe, 15 
 
 In ffeueryeer that hit translacioun 
 May haue. And garlec now in lond is throwe; 
 Vlpike and oynouns in their stacioun 
 To growe. Ek senvey^ semynacioun, 
 A.nd cunel bothe ha now, the disciplyne 20 
 
 Of whom is taught aforn & craftis fyne. 
 
 [De pomis: in eo de hypomelidibus et cdiorum mensium pomis. 
 iiij eapitulum.] 
 
 AS Marcial seith ypomelides 
 Beth appultreen whos fruyt is lyk a serue^. 
 A comniyn tre statured dout[e]lees, 
 With whitly flour coloured, whos obsorue. '25 
 
 To worthy men the fruyt is worthy serue', 
 ffor as he seith, hit is so tart and swete 
 That wel is hyni that with that fruyt may mete. 
 In December his curnel* is to sette 
 In Jomes smale. His plaunte in ffeueryeer 30 
 
 Transplaunted is; but se hit thombe grette 
 And stronge, er me transplaunte hit fer & nere. 
 In lond that is solute and donge yfere, 
 Not depe hem sette, and from the wynd hem wrie ■ 
 "With donge, in caas his blastis cause hem drie. 35 
 
 Decembre. 118. [fol. 130.] 
 This gentyl tre wol growe in euery londe; 
 But placis glade and warm & nygh tiie see — 
 In stony grounde ek loueth he to stonde. 
 Of coold afeerd hit is. But graffed be 
 Hit may not, and not long endurith he. 40 
 
 His fruyt in picched pottis me may kepe. 
 In drosse^ of grape or applis leid to slepe. 
 
 'iO cunelj Ms. curnel. 22 Rubric omitted. Ms. doutlees. 
 
 1 sinapis. 2 gorbo. 3 seraire. * nucleus. 5 vinaceis. 
 
Book XllI] Decembre. 25^' 
 
 De rapis condiendis. Quintum capitulnm. 
 '^\Tovi rape in peecis smale is to divide, 
 -L^ And lightly boyle; and diligently drie 
 That noon humour in nere a part abide. 45 
 
 Into aysel terapred mustard thenne hem trye; 
 The vessel fild be closid clene or wrie. , 
 Bite on, and as they taastith taak hem neer. 
 Nouembcr doth this same, and lanyuere. 
 
 De eehinis paruis (Ss lardo saliendis. vj capitulum. 
 
 Now nygh the see ther Phebes^ increment 50 
 
 Al closid fish & conkis^ causith swelle, 
 Echynys flesh with saltis condyment 
 Be cured, as men vseth craft to telle. 
 This same as longe as wynter dayes dwelle, 
 Wei may be doon. Ek bacon me may salte, 55 
 
 And larde, vntil the wynter sesoun halte. 
 
 Also this mone, in wode and groues lowe, 
 
 Ther bayes beth and benes ripe enrounde, 
 
 Gynnes'' be sette, of euery bridde vnknowe, 
 
 Throsshes to take, and other foul on grounde. 60 
 
 ffoulyngo is good til Marche on hit abounde. 
 
 December is atton with lanyueer 
 
 In length, and foot for foot they goth yfeere. 
 
 De horis. Septimum capitulum. [fol. 130 a.] 
 
 They first & last, on xxix stonde; 
 And next the first and last on x & ix"^; 65 
 
 As for the thridde is thries v yfonde; 
 To foure and eight ek footes xij assigne; 
 To X, mydday & ouernoon declyne, 
 And noon to ix"® Yf y be not to blame, 
 In lanyueer of sentence is the same. 70 
 
 Deo gracias. 
 
 66 yfonde] altered from ystonde by erasing t and crossing s. 
 
 1 lune. '^ conchas. ^ laquei. 
 
 17 
 
268 Decembre. [Book XIII 
 
 Laude, ymne, honour be to the fflour Ie«u. 
 
 Tmne vnto the, our right, our souh's light; 
 
 HonoMr the do good werk, life, light, vertu; 
 
 Be our good Lord gouernyng al our myght; 
 
 To right werk gouernyng, yef vs wit, right; 
 
 The our lif al, vs fostwring rigM thus, 
 
 fflour, soulis light, our, wit right to the dight. 
 
 lesu, light, vertu, myght, right thus dight vs. 
 
 My wit, my word, my werk The magnifieth, 
 
 kyngis Kynge, Lord of lordis hie, 80 
 
 Whos grace a pnncis flour honorifieth, 
 
 That in nature hym like is noon to trie. 
 
 Gramerci, Lord, that list eek mortifie 
 
 My wronge, y hope, and do me sumdel rise 
 
 Thy self in hym to se. Yet treste y crie 85 
 
 Thy laude, and his honour eft preconise. 
 
 Explicit. 
 73 life] Ms. light. 
 
A collation of the Early English Text 
 
 Society's Edition of Palladius onHushondry 
 
 with Ms. Bodl. Add. A. 369 (formerly in 
 
 Colchester Castle).* 
 
 Tahula. 
 
 [The first leaf is missing from Bodl. Add. A. 369. Fol. 1 is 
 subscribed 'a. ij'.J 
 
 (fol. 1.) 
 Cisterne celar for oyles, wyne celar, and coliimbary in B at Bildyng. 
 
 Oampas: 17; h, & 16; f, g. 
 
 Cbiches 
 
 Colcase 
 
 Cresses 
 
 f'appare 
 
 Cunda' 
 
 Coriaundre 
 
 Commyn 
 
 Cerfoile 
 
 Cirera 
 
 Cucumber 
 
 in S atte Sowyng. 
 
 Cucumber, in ffeuerer yere to sowc, and make swete and longe 
 withouten core, or elles lyke a rede in lengthe: 57; c, d, e. 
 
 Cot umber is so ferde of thounder that it turneth, and from oiles 
 it woll clicche awaye: 57; e. 
 
 To make cucumbres of what fourme the list: 57; f. 
 
 To graffe cucuTOber in breere and ferule: 57; g. 
 
 Cannetes, in ffeuerer to make: 81; g, h. 
 
 Chastentree, plantyng and settyng in November: 111; a, &c. 
 
 Citurtree,2 tylling in Marcbe: 61; d, &c. & 62; a, b. 
 
 Citurtree, graffyng, and of his eternite in fruyte andfloures: 62; c, d. 
 
 Citurtrees bitter mary to chaunge into swete: 62; e. 
 
 Citurfruyte to kepe: 62; f, g. 
 
 Citurtrees, tillyng in May: 77; e. 
 
 ' chyues or cyues written above. ^ orenges. 
 
 * It seemed best in making this collation to note all variations 
 from the text of the Ms., as well as the actual misreadings of the Editor. 
 As usual, italic type is used to mark expanded abbreviations and square 
 brackets for words or letters supplied by the editor. 
 
 IT 
 
— 260 
 
 Citurtree, plauntyng in luyn: 86; b. 
 
 Cornes may not be touched in floury ng: 76; a, b. 
 
 Chiritree, in October graffyng and setting, and what lande is good 
 
 for hem: 99; h, & ICO; a, b, o. 
 Chiries, to growe withouten stones: 100 d, e, f. 
 Remedie for rootynge of ohiritrees, and for auntz: 100; f, g, h. 
 Coltes, or foles of hors, to knowe in Marche: 69; e, f. 
 Oausinge of teeth: 69 g. 
 
 Calues, geldyng in dyuers wyso in May: 77; f, g, h, & 78; a, b. 
 Castraciouw of calues in luyn: 82; d. 
 
 Chese, makyng, kepinge, and counfityng in May: 78; t, &c. 
 Oarene, defruyte and sape counfit in October: 105; a, 
 Cydonite counflt in Octobre: 105: d, e. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. la.) 
 
 Dales beth not to duelle inne: 8; e. 
 Douves, to multiplie: 10; f. 
 To saue douves from the wesell: 10; f. 
 Donge, or myddyng, howe it shal stonde: 14; d, e,. 
 Deluyng, dyvers tymes; 15; d. 
 Deluyng aboute vynos or treen: 41; b, e. 
 Date stones to sette in October: 99; c, d. 
 Defruyte, to counflt in October: 105; a. 
 
 Erthe, in L atte Londe. 
 Bxoodicacioun of wynes in lanuarie : 23 ; a. 
 Bringe of londe, in L atte Londe. 
 Bxon to chese in Marche: 66; c, &c. 
 Exon of dyvers condiciouws; 66; f, g. 
 Bxon tamynge: 67; f, g, h. 
 Bxon taniyng in otherwyse: 68; a, b. 
 Emplastryng solempne in luyn: 81 ; li, & 82; a, b, c. 
 Bmplastringe in luyll : 86 ; a. 
 Bmplastering in Aust: 89; d. 
 
 Feelde, in L atte Lande. 
 ffeeldes to I'eye, discreciou/i: 6; a. 
 ffleen, for to destroie: 17; b, c. 
 ffloring for thresshing: 18; f, g, h. 
 ffallyng tymbre in lanuario: :;0; g. 
 ffigtree plantyng in March p : (iii; i'. I', p;'. li. 
 
 ffigtree, lande, and settyng in iij niMnors: 63; f, g, h, & 64; a, 
 
 [b, c, d. 
 ffigtree, to caprifie and scarifie, with moche remedy: 64; e, &c. 
 ffigtree that casteth his fruyte, goode remedie: 66; a, b, c. 
 ffiges, fele and fatte to make: 65; c. 
 ffiges, sone ripe, to be lately ripe, and econtra: 65; c. 
 ffigtree graffyng vnder rynde in Aprill: 65; d. 
 ffigtree plechyng and inoculinge: 65; e. 
 ffiges, keping: 65; g, h. 
 
 ffiges of dyvers colours vpon oon tree: 66; a, b. 
 ffigtree settyng in May: 77; e. 
 
 ffigtree caprified and graffed in luyn: 81; h. 
 
 ifallyng of tymber for gutters in May: 77; a. 
 
 fi'eyngreek hervest for fodder in luyn: 81; c. ' 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 2.) 
 
-^ 261 — 
 
 fflcches 1 r ifeyngreok 1 ■ o .^ c 
 
 ffasele i\ ffdraie / "" ^ ^"« Sowyng. 
 
 ffei;ii and segges to destroys in Aust : 88 ; h. 
 
 fferment, musty: 105; f. 
 
 ffesauntes, to rere and fatte: 12; h, & 13; a, b, c. 
 
 GouuernaMnce is the grete crafte of husbondrie: 2; h. 
 Graynes in S atte Peed. 
 Gravel, pi-eef, and grosshing gravel is best: 7; c, d. ; 
 
 Garner makyng: 9; e, f. 
 Garden, howe it shal stande: 14; f, g, h. 
 Garden closure: 15; a, b, n, and also 82; b, c. 
 Gardyn, remedie: 15; g, h, & 16 al thourgh, & 17 & 18 til f. 
 Grafle in the countroe gyse: 15; f. 
 Graffyng in iij miincrs: in the rynde, in the stocke, and emplast- 
 
 ring in ffeuercv: 38; c, &c. 
 Graftes, chcsyng, gretenesse and shappe: 38; g, h. 
 Graffinge of vynes in elnies: 39; b, c. 
 Graffyng pecbes to growe withoute stones: 39; c, d, e. 
 Graffyng and settyng of peretreen in ffeuej-er: 49; e. 
 Graffyng of molbury tree: 49; f, g. 
 Graffyng pertree and citurtree in Aust: 89; d. 
 Grape vngreyned in dyvers maner maade: 52; a, b, c, d. 
 Grapes, -white and blake in oon vyne: 53; a. 
 Grapes, whicho for the borde, whiche for the wyne: 33; c. 
 Grapes, to kepe in the wyne til veer: 112; f, g. :h. 
 Garlek 1 f Gooldes I ■ a ** c. 
 Goordes \\ Gith /■ '"^ ^ ^"' ^°^y°^- . 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 2a.) 
 Greek reysons: 105; g, h. 
 Gresse, to destroie in iij maners: 87; b. 
 Geese, to rere and fatte: 13; d, e, &c. 
 Goot buckes, to obese and gouuerne: 113; f, g, h. 
 Gynnes, makyng for foulinge in September: 98; f. 
 Gynnes and foulyngo in December; 118; d. 
 
 Husbondrie standeth in iiij thinges: 1; c. 
 Haliday hath noon, necessitee: 4; b. 
 Housyng, in B atte Bildyng. 
 Hempe holihocke, in S atte Sowyng. 
 Hors and exon standyng, in B atte Bildyng. 
 Hors stalons putte forth to mares in Marche: 68; c, d. 
 Hors sholde haue iiij thinges: fourme, colours, merite, and pul- 
 
 critude: 68; d, e, &c. 
 Hors stalons age, and mares: 69; d. 
 Stalons of asses with her age: 70; b, o. 
 Hennes, to rere and make hem ofte hacche: 11; c, d. 
 Hennes, to hele of the pippe and cornes: 11; e, f, g. 
 Hony counfit: 82; h, & 83; a. 
 Hony and wexe of dyvers herbes: 19; c. 
 Hony onsake(«ic) counflt : 91 ; h. 
 Heruest in luyn: , 80 ; f, g. 
 Heruest in luyl: 85; c. 
 Heruest of panyk in September: 94; f. 
 Houres in lanuarie: 30; h. floures in luyl: 88; a. 
 
 Houres in ffeuerer: 53; b. Houres in August: 92; a. 
 
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 Houres in Marche: 71; b. Houres in September: 96; a. 
 
 Houres in Aprill: 75; f. Houres in October: 106; a. 
 
 Houres in May: 80; a. Houres in November: 117; a. 
 
 Houres in luyn: 84; h, a, Houres in December: 118; e. 
 
 luglandes: 5; e, f. 
 Karene defruite and sape counfit: 105; a. 
 
 Landes electioun: 2; a, e, f, g. Tabula, (fol. 3.) 
 
 Londe feble; fertile lande: 2; b, c, d. 
 Lande bareyn is to be fledde fro: 3; h. 
 Lande is not to be balked: 4; c, & 23; c. 
 Lande profounde for greet olyues: 4; d. 
 Lande is to take on hande as men may til: 4; g. 
 Lande ouergrowe is holpen with gouuernanco: 4; h. 
 Lande for wheete and barly: 5; d, e. 
 Lande that is salt to be remedied: 5; f, g. 
 Lande chesyng in colde countree: 6; c. 
 Lande fenny nys to eree or plowe: 23; d. 
 Lande for vynes: 25; b, &c. 
 Lande ofte ereed or plowed: 30; d, e. 
 Lande for meles: 87; a, b. 
 Lande for quynces: 48; c, d. 
 Lande for molbury tree: 49; h. 
 Lande, plowyng in lanuarie: 23; b, c, d. 
 In ffeuerer: 32; b, d. 
 In Marche: 54; g. 
 In Aprill: 72; g. 
 Lande, plowing in May: 76; e. 
 Lande, plowyng in luyn: 81; c. 
 Lande, plowyng and stookkyng in luyl: 85; c, d. 
 Lande, plowyng in^ August: 88; d. 
 Lande, plowyng in September: 92; d, o, & 94; a. 
 Lande, donginge in September: 92; f, g. 
 Lande, to remedie for euel humour: 93; a, b. 
 Lande, to remodie for evel bestos: 93; b, c. 
 Landes, weete, woddy, stony, or wedy, to remedie: 76; o, &c, 
 Lyme, the makyng therof : 7 ; f. 
 Lilies, to sette or sowe: 41; e, f. 
 Letuce sowyng, and to make white letuce: 26; b, c, d. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 3a.) 
 Letuce with other herbes in a wrido: 26; e, f, g. 
 Letuce and lynseed, in S atte Sowing. 
 Leek seede, sowyng, to make tender leekes, and grete 
 
 heded leekes: 43; g, h. ' 
 Leek plaunte*; the gretenesse, the manor of kittyng, the" 
 
 blades and rootes, and to make hem heded grete: 88; a, b. 
 Lupyne, reping, kepyng and sowyng: 81, e. 
 Lambes to rere: 112; h, & 113; a. 
 Liquamen castimonial: 46; g, h. 
 Lard, bacons, & echyne fisshe to salt: 118; c. 
 
 Molde is to be moeved aboute a roote': 5; h. 
 Mues, in B atte Bildyng. 
 Middyng or donghill: 14; d. 
 
 in added above in same hand, ^ Ms, aroots; 
 
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 Markyng of beestes, and makyng oondimentz: 30; b. 
 
 Medues in leene and drie lande: 23; b. 
 
 Medys in tempre lande: 32; a. 
 
 Medys, in colde lande to dense: 54; g. 
 
 Medys, newe to make: 93; h, & 14; a, b, c. 
 
 Meles, to graffe in ffeuerer: 86; h. 
 
 Meles, lande to growe in: 47; a, b. 
 
 Meles, to remedie: 87; d, e. 
 
 Meles may bo graffed in dyvers treen : 47 ; f. 
 
 Meles, fruyte kepinge: 87; f, g, h. 
 
 Moldewarpps, to sle: 56; g, h. 17; d, e. 
 
 Meles, maade aisell and wyne of: 48; b. 
 
 Melons to [sette]' in Marche, and make swete as mylk 
 
 and smellyng as roses : 57 ; b. 
 Meddelers, to sette in March: 62; g, h. 
 Meddelers, to remodie for wormes and make fertile: 63; a. 
 Meddelers, to remedie for auntes and eastyng fruyte: 63; b. 
 Meddelers, to graffe und to kepe: 63; b, c, d. 
 Molbery tree, tilynge in ffeuerer: 49; f. g, h. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 4.) 
 Plantyng molbery tree, remedie for hem, and grafflng of the same : 
 Mixe sowyng and settyng ia Marche: 50; d, e. [50; a, b, c. 
 
 Mastik tree to plaunte and graff in Marche: 50; e. 
 Maleapultreen in October to sette: 101; a. 
 Male apples to counfit in October: a. 
 
 M:S }{ Bdf 1 - S atte Sowyng. 
 
 Mares, to obese and gomicrne: 68; h, & 69; a, b, c. 
 
 Mules, to haue in dyvers wyses: 69; h, & 70; a, b. 
 
 Nuttrees, to sette in lanuarie: 28; h, & 29; a, b, c, d. 
 Remedy for nuttrees, and nuttes Tarentyne: 29; f. 
 To kepe nuttes: 29; g, h. 
 
 Nepes and rapes in luyll to sowe, and make grete: 85; e; &c, 
 Alyve is to be planted of children: 5; a. 
 v/ Olyves grete stande in depe lande: 4; d. 
 Olyuetes, to sette in ffeuerer, and goode lande for hem: 39; 
 
 [f, g, b. 
 Olyue bayes of dyvers names, and order of thaire standyng: 40; d. 
 Olyues to rere withouten olyve planter: 40: e. 
 Olyues to seek to hele in Marche: 55; h. 
 Olyves bareyne to make here: 56; a, b. 
 
 Olyves, graffyng in Aprill that finr destroye hem not: 72; d, e, f, g. 
 Olyvetes, to ordeigne, sette, and donge, in October: 97; e, f, g. 
 Olyues bareyne to bring into beringe, cum coitu suo: 97; h. 
 Olyues, putaciouw in Nouember with oil makyng: 107; c, d. 
 Olyues, to sette and cure in November: 107; e. 
 Oile myrtite made in lanuarie: 30; c. 
 Oile lauryne, in lanuarie maade: 30; e. 
 Oile lentiscyne maade in lanuarie; 30;. f. 
 Oile liliate counflt in May: 79; f. 
 Oile de rose counfit in May: 79; g. 
 Oile verde counfit in October: 98; b. 
 
 1 Blmik space in Ms. the width of 7 letters. 
 
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 Oile lauryne counfit in October: 98; c. 
 
 Oile makyng in November: 114; g, h. Tabula, (fol. 4a.) 
 
 Oile lijie liburnyke in Nouember: 115; a. 
 
 Oyle filthy to pure in Nouember: 115; b. 
 
 Oyle euel smellyng to amende: 115; b, c. 
 
 Oyle browsty smellyng to amende: 115; g. 
 
 Olyues to counfit in dyvers wyse: 115; h, & 116; per totitm. 
 
 Oyle dregges and vryne for olyues: 32; f, g. 
 
 Origon, Oynons in S atte Sowyng. 
 
 Oxon in E atte Exon. 
 
 Poocol£ to rere: 11; h, & 12 til h. 
 Poondes for water foule: 14; b. 
 Pastynyng in dyvers wyse in lanuario: 24; c, &c. 
 Puis, sowyng in fanuarie: 24; b, c. 
 Plowing of lande, in L atte Lande. 
 
 Peche tylling in ffeuerer; to growe witlioute stones: 39; r, d, e. 
 Peches emplastringe in May: 77; e. 
 Peches, inoculaeioun, a fygtree in luyn: 81; h. 
 Peches, aettyng in November: 107; h, & 108; a, b. 
 Peches, ablaqueacjoun, putaoion, and sanacioun: 108; c. 
 Peches, to growe writen with leires: 108; d. 
 Peches of iij kyndes, and dyvers remedie: 108: e, f, g. 
 Peches, to make greet and swete: 108; h. 
 Peches, graffyng, inoculynge, plasturinge, and 
 
 kepinge, with dyaers remedie for hem: 109; a, &c. 
 Perys, settyng and graffyng in ffeuerer: 44; e, f, g, h. 
 Perys, tender, swete, sauery, and long lastynge: 45; a, b, c. 
 Peertrees seke, to hele in dyvers wyse: 45; c, d. 
 Peertrees, that thai blossum not to longe : 45 ; e. 
 Peres stony, to remedy: 45; e, f. 
 Peres may be graffed in dyuers trees: 45; f. 
 Peres, to graffe by good crafte: 45; g. 
 Peres to be saury to ete: 45; h & 46; a. 
 
 Peres to kepe, dyvers crafte: 46; b, c, d. Tabula, (fol. 5.) 
 
 Peres, to be ouertaken in luyn: 81; g. 
 Perre, or wyne of peres, in ffeuerer: 46; e, f. 
 Peres, made aysel of in ffeue«-er: 46; e, f 
 Peres, ymaade liquamen castimanial of: 46; g, h. 
 Pomgarnette, settyng in Marche: 59; d, &c. 
 Pomgarnette«, to be swete: 59; g, h. 
 Pomgarnette*, from chappinge, from wormes, and 
 
 from corruptinge, to kepe: 60; a, b. 
 Pomgarnettes, to be fecounde & white grayned; 60; c. 
 Pomgarnette*, to be meruaylously grete: 60; d, and in May. 77; 
 
 d, and in luyn : 81 ; g. 
 Pomgarnettes, to multiplie: 60; e. 
 Pomgarnettes, graffyng in Marche: 60; e, L 
 Pomgarnette*, kepinge: 60; f, g, h, & 61 ; a, b. 
 Pomgarnette*, made wyne of: 61; b. c. 
 Pistace, to plaunte and graffe in ffeuerer: 50; f. 
 Pistace tillynge in October: 99; f, g. 
 Pynappultree, in ffeuerer tilled: 50; f. 
 Pynappultree, sawyng and plauntynge in November: 109; e, f, g, h. 
 
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 Pynappultree, kyttyng and kcpingo tliairo fi'uyt, 
 
 with more ofplantyng; 110; a. b. 
 Palme, deluynge aboiite in Iiiyn: 8); li. 
 Palmes, to tille in Nouember; 99; c. d, e,'f'. 
 Pouduryng of vynes in Marche: 55; c, 
 Pastynynge landes in May: 77; o. 
 Puis and potapcware: heruest in luyn: 81; c, d. 
 Plumtree, to sowe, plaunte,*remedye, and to 
 
 graffe in Nouember: 110; b, &c. 
 Pasture for sheepe: 113; b, c, d. 
 Pastynynge the gardyn in September: 94; h. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 5a.) 
 
 K=rll&M-^«"°«-^"^- 
 
 Pauyng selers in May: 79; f, g, h, b, c, d. 
 
 Paving selors in luyn: 84; c. 
 
 Pavyng in September: 95; f. 
 
 Passe counfit in November: 105; b, c. 
 
 Quyiices, to graffe in ffeuerer: 48; b, c. 
 Quynros, tillynge and remedy for hem: 48; c, f, g. 
 Quynces, graffyng and keping of hem: 49; a, &c. 
 
 Eosarics, to make and repare in ffeuerer: 41 ; d, b. 
 Roses sone ripe to haue: 41; e. 
 Kosate counfit in May: 79; f. 
 Kore.s, to kepe Iresshe: 79; h. 
 
 Hosate counfit withouten roses in Nouember: 104; e. 
 Rosaries of fewe braunches to make in Nouember: 112; c. 
 Eodonielle counfit in May: 79; g. 
 Rapes to chaunge into neepes and econtra: 85; f. 
 Radisshe, to make swete and howe moche is to be 
 
 sowe in oon aker lande: 89; b, c. 
 Rapes, counfit in December: 118; b. 
 Reysons Greek, to make in November: 105; g, h. 
 Raues, wilde; Rue in S atte Sowyng. 
 Reping in luyn: 80; f, g. 
 
 Reping of all the heniest with oon oxe, good crafte. 80: g, h, &c. 
 Reping in luyll: 85; c. 
 
 Soil or grounde in L atte Lande is to be fonde. 
 Seed is to consider: 6; b. 
 Sowe. in the countre manor: 15; f. 
 Sowe in lanuarie ficches and feyngreek: 23; e, f, g. 
 Cresses: 27; h. 
 
 Sowe in ffeuerer puis in dry lande: 32; b, c. 
 Hemppe and tares : 32 ; d, e, f. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 6.) 
 Letuce, cresses, tasels, coriaunder, popy, saury, senvey, oynet, 
 
 oynons, dile, and coolseede: 42; o, d, e, f, g, h. 
 Malues, myntes, fenel, pastnepe, cunula,' cerfoilc, 
 
 betes and leek sede: 43; e, &c. 
 Sowe and sette chibols and colcase, commyn and anys: 44; c, d. 
 Sowe in March, mylde: 54; g. 
 Ghiches and cicera: 55; a, b, c. 
 
 ' chyves. 
 
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 Senuey and dile: 56; h. 
 
 Hocke, armorace, wilde raue. Ice.kes, betes, lotuce, cappare, 
 saury, colcase, tresses, gooldes, and raue: 57; a. 
 
 Cucumber: 57; c; sperage: 57; h; rue. niid what lande is best 
 lor hem: 58; e, f, g, h; gourdes; 58; h, & 5il; a, b; panyk: 
 54; h; blite and pelettour: 59; b, c. 
 
 Sowe in Aprill medike: 72; a. b, c; brasik and ache: 72; h. 
 
 Thre kyndes of ache: 73: a; arage: 73; d; basilicon, and se 
 wonder tillinge fherof; howe his floures chaungetb colours, 
 and howe it chaungetb in to other herbes. Also sowe cucumber, 
 melons, pelletur, cappare. leeke, colcase, coriaunder, betes, letuce, 
 oynons, myntes, gourdes, and gooldes: 73; e, f. 
 
 Sowe in May mylde and panyk: 76; a. 
 
 Ache, melons, coriaunder, gourdes, tasul, radisshe, and sette rue 
 and leeke: 77; c. 
 
 Sowe in luyn brasike, ache, betes, radysshe, and lotuce: 81; f. 
 
 Experience of seede: 84; c, d. 
 
 Sowe in luyl oynons, radysshe, arage, nepes, and rapes : 85 ; e, f, g. 
 
 Sowe in Aust rape, nepe, and radisshe: 88; h. 
 
 Sowe in September whete and ador: 92; h; barly canteryne, 
 lupyne, peeses and sisane, fficches, fieyngieck, and forage, ffasele: 
 93; d, e, f; popy, brasyk, and origon: 94; g, h; 
 
 Cappare, gith, cresses, dile, radysshe, pasnepe, cerfoile, 
 letuce, betes, coriaunder, rapes, and nepes: 95; a, b. 
 
 , Tabula, (fol. 6a.) 
 
 Sowe in October whete and ador, sisane, ffasele, lynseed: 96;. d, 
 
 e, f; Gooldes. senuey: 98; d, e, f : dyle, myntes, oynons, pasnepe, 
 origon, wilde nepe, tyme, leekseede, licte*', basilicon: 99; a, b. 
 
 Sowe in Nouember whete, ffar, benes, barly, lentis, and lyne: 106; 
 d, e, f, g; garlik, vlpike, oynons, tasul, cunel, & armarace; 107; 
 
 f, g; almaundes and iuglandc«: 111; h. 
 
 Sowe in December wheete, barly, benes, and lynseede; 117; d. 
 
 Sette safferon in ffeuerer: 41; f; cannetes: 42; a. 
 
 Sette and graffe percs: 44; e, f, g, h. 
 
 Sette in Marche garlyk, cunel, oynons, and v[l]pyke: 56; h; 
 
 origon and milons: 57; :i, b; pomgarnette: 59; d, &c. 
 Sette in Aprill ziziphus: 73; g, h. Sette in May zizife and flgtree: 
 
 77; e. Sette in September and graffe tubres: 95; c, d, e. 
 Sette in November wildc piri, (itrus, quynce, pomgarnette, Serue, 
 
 meddeler, silique, molbury. chiritree, & flgtree : I U ; h. 
 Sette greet treen: 1J8; f. Serues, sette in lanuarie: 27; a. 
 Seruys, bareyn, to make here, and to kepe hem: 27; d, e, f. 
 Scions of vynes to sette in fi'euerei: 33; f, g, h. 
 Scions, thaire lengthe and space betwene hem: 34; c, d. 
 Semynary, what it is: 35; a. 
 
 Sperage, spounge, and to haue goode sperage: 43; c, d. 
 Sponge of sperage, to make in Marche: 58; a, b, c, d. 
 Siliqua, to plaunte and sowe in ffeuerer: 49; d. 
 Semynary deluynge in May: 77; b. Sisane, in Sowyng. 
 Sape counfit in November: 105; a. 
 Sowes to chese long syded: 50; h. 
 Soues, howe long goeth with pigge : 51 ; b. 
 Swyne, what soil is best fore: 51; c, d. 
 Stalons, in H atte flors. Stalons, asses, in H ther. 
 
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 Shepe shering in May with good enoyntynge: 78; c, d. 
 
 Sheep shering in Tuyn: 8'2; d. 
 
 Sheep feble to putte awaio in luyll: 87; b, o. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 7.) 
 
 Sheep tuppcs to chcsc and ewes for hem, and for to make hem 
 
 here males or females in luyll: 86; e, &c. Shepe rering, or lambeS 
 
 rering: 112; h, & 113; a. Sheepe to pasture in Noue'mber 113; 
 
 [b, c, d, c. 
 
 Tares to sowe in lanuarie: 23; h. In ffouercr: 32; f. 
 Tasul, tillinge in Marche: 56; c, &c. pej- totum. 
 Tasul, plauntyng in October: 98; e. 
 Tubrcs, sowe and graffe in ft'eucrer: 50; e. 
 Tubrcs, settyng in September, grafl'yng and kepingo: 45; c, d. e. 
 
 Water, to prrue: 1 ; f, g, h. 
 water, to fynde for to make wynches or wellrs: 89; e, f, &c. 
 Water is dyvers in dyuers places: 89; f, g. h. 
 Water, to knowe by dyvers signes: 89; h, & 90; a, b, o, d. 
 Wynches, makyng with goode crafte: 90; e, f, g, h. 
 Water, preuyng in dyvers wyse: 91; a, b. 
 
 Water conduyte* of dyvers crafte and the mesure of hem: 91; 
 
 [c, d, e, f, g. 
 Vynes where forto sette, and discrecjouw in kittingc: 3; a, Aiu. 
 Dyvers vynes, dyvers wynes: 4; a. 
 Vyne braunches kitte to enoyntc: 4; d. 
 Vynes howe high thai shall be: 4; e. 
 
 Vynes paslynyng, and tables for vynes in lanuarie: 24; e, d, e, f. 
 Vynes, soil and aier: 25; b, &c. 
 
 When, where, and what vynes both best forto setto: 32; h, & 33; r.. 
 Vyne aniynee gretly commended, vyne apiane : 33 ; c, &c. 
 Vynes scions, to sette in ffeuerer: 33; f, g. 
 
 Vynes scions, howe many may stando in an akro laiide: 34; c, d. 
 Vynes, to make a grove of in ffeuerer: 35; per to^ftni. 
 Subtil crafte for vynes in ffeuerer: 35; p'-r to/wni. 
 Vynes prouincial: 36; a. 
 
 Kytlinge of commune vyne in coolde contree: 36; b. 
 Kitte bosshe vynes in ffeuerer with moche crafte: 37; a, &c. 
 Provincial vynes kittynge in ffeuerer: 37; e. 
 Vynes, plechinge, prouynynge, or propagacioura: 37; b. 
 
 Tabula, (fol. 7 a.) 
 Vynes, deluyng, stakyng, and bynding: 41; b, c. 
 Vyne lacrymose to helpe in fleuerer: 52; e. 
 Vyne to here grapes vngreyned: 5; a, b, c, d. 
 Vyne to here grapes white and blake: 53; a. 
 Vynes, grafting in Marche: 54; a, &c. 
 Vynes to be poudered in Marche: 55; c. 
 Vynes, stakyng and bynding in Marche: 55; c, d. 
 Vynes olde to repare in Marche: 55; e, f. 
 Vynes hurt or seeke to he leched in Marche: 55; g. 
 Vynes tender to tille in May: 76; o. 
 Vynes pampinacioun in May: 76; d. 
 Vynes ablaqueate' to couert in May: 77; a. 
 Vynes, couering in luyn: 81; d. 
 Vynes, couering and vindage apparail in luyl: 88; d. 
 
— 268 — 
 
 Vyne yerdes lene to helpe in August: 88; e. 
 
 Vynes pampynyng in August: 88; f. 
 
 Vyndage solempe in September: 94; i, e. 
 
 Vynes whoos grapes rotetti, to remedy in August: 95; h. 
 
 Vynes that beth fertile, marke hem in Scptombei- for scions 
 
 to sette in settyng season: 96; g. 
 Vynes to trails in September in hoote lande: 96; h. 
 Vynes ablaquea«'ou»i in September: 97; b, c. 
 Vynes, graffyng in September: 97; d. 
 Vynes ouerlonge to repare in November: 107; a, b. 
 Vynes putaciouw in Nouember: 107; c. 
 
 Vynes pampinose and not fructuose, to remedy in November: 112; d. 
 Vynes barein to remedy in November: 1J2; d. 
 Vryne abouto vyne rootes: 32; f, g. 
 Wyne mirtite in lanuarie counflt: 30; d. 
 Wyne mirtite counfit in fFeuerer: 51; e. 
 "Wyne Tiriake right helefull, to make in ffeuecer: 5[1]; f, g. 
 "Wyne mirtite in other wyse, made in ft'eaerer:. 52: f, g. 
 
 [Tabula.] (fol. 8.) 
 Wyne absinthiate, rosate, and violate in ff'euerer: 52; h. 
 Wyne of pomgarnette in Marcho counfil; 61; a, b. 
 Wyne rosate counflt in May: 79; f. 
 Wyne of grapes birained to remedie in October: 98; a. 
 Wynes, dyuersitee and makyng of hem in October: 101; c, &c. 
 Wynes of dyvers colours both of dy vers qualitee Asauours: 101; c, d. 
 Wyne, makyng of must by decoccjouH in the first, maner, and in 
 
 the second maner by see water tried & fynod in October: 101; 
 
 Wyne to make long euduringe: 101; g. 
 
 Wyne or muste that is birayned to helpe: 101; h. 
 
 Wynes, sowre to make swete: 102; a. 
 
 Wynes, weel smelling to make: 102; b. 
 
 Wynos, swete drynking to make: 102; c, d. 
 
 Wynes, newe to make some olde: 102; d, e. 
 
 Wynes, remedy for enfectiouw: 102;. e, f. 
 
 Wynes of oon yero to seme passyng olde: 102; f, g. 
 
 Wynes browne to make white and econtrsx: 102; h, & 103 ; a, b. 
 
 Wynes smale to make greet: 103; b, c. 
 
 Wyne austrere(!) to make clero and gentil to drynke: 103; d. 
 
 Wyne trouble or feculent to clere anoon: 103; e. 
 
 Wyne in fyn confectioura; 104; d. 
 
 Wyne pestilente: 104; c. 
 
 Wyne ynomelle: 104; f, g, h. 
 
 Wyne of peres: 46; e, f. 
 
 Violette settyng in ffeuerer: 41; f. 
 
 Wortes hoore as frost and tender, with tyme of 
 
 settyng wortes in ffeuerer: 43; a, b, c, d. 
 TTpomeJides settyng in December and keping of 
 1 his fruyte: 117; g, h, & 118; a. 
 
 Zizifus settyng and tillinge in Aprill: 73; g, h. 
 Zizifus to gladde yf it be sorowfull, and keping of 
 thaire fruytes in Aprill: 73; a, b. 
 
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 Ziziphus to sette or graffe in May: 77; o. [Tabula.] (fol. 8a.) 
 
 In luyn: 81 ; g. 
 
 Explicit tabula. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 p. I. 1 (fol. 8a.) In left margin: cap™ primum. In right margin: 
 Ayer and Water. 2 enfourme. 3 rethorik. 4 haup. 6 otbir. 7 vs. 8 Vs. 
 enerie. 10 howc. 11 eutry tbing. 14 sette. ouie. P. 2. 15 Le/t 
 Margin: .ca"> ij. 16 gouuernajmcc. 19 man. 20 howe. 21 thowe. haue. 
 1hi c. 22 (fol; 9.) 23 hoole stando oute. 24 Tbi. 29 Right Margin: cap- 
 iij". depe. noone. 31 contiee men. wele. 33 heringe. 35 Vncleno. 36 
 littbric] aqua. Bight Margin: cap'" iiij"'. oute. myre. 37 oute. 38 fresshe. 
 P. 3. 40 smelle. 46 contrcy men. 47 hedes goode. choke*. 48 noo. 
 50 (fol. 9a.) longes woo. 51 ouertake. 52 duellers. 53 swelle. 54 ough. 
 55 yf. thowe. 56 dnuLte. thi w. 57 Sight Margin: londe. 58 Bight 
 Margin : de terra mala. 59 grauel. 62 and. 63 noone. 64 selue. Bight 
 Margin: de terra bona. 66 delue. P. 4. 67 fruyte. 69 rysshes. 70 
 breres. 72 so. In right margin: De terra pingui ct dulc[i]. 73 auisely. 
 Margin: Vrimo de pingui terra. 74 water. 77 agiiyne. 78 (fol. 10) 80 
 In right margin: De dulci terra. 82 ertben. youe. 83 tbowe. 84 lande. 
 86 therdn. faire. 87 bosshes. 89 gloss to puUe] omit brackets; likewise 
 in gloss to elonge. 90 picohe. 91 allc doune. 93 euen P. 5. 96 lande. 
 viijene. 97 wynde. 101 dyvers. nedeful. 103 Her] Ther. 105 thikke. 
 espie. graunt. 106 (fol. 10a.) Left Margin: vj ca>". Bight Margin: 
 Gouuernaunce. 107 gouuernaunce. 108 euery. 109 auaunce. 113 The] 
 Icbe. 114 sedes. 117 cliaunge hem self. 121 Southwardc. temporaunt. 
 122 Yit. 128 chuse] thusn. P. 6. 125 vnto. 126 gouucrnynge. 130 
 ynowe. i.32 Bight margin: Nota. 134 (fol. 11.) 135 grapes] gl. ho d". and badde] 
 yhadde.136 vsage. 138 germ] gemme. 141 ouer. 143 ouer. 144Yit. ouer- 
 sette. 146 other. 147 couert. 148 greno. 150 bareinc. 151 lande. 
 152 yonge. P. 7. 153 saycn. 154 Saue. cuer. 156 outake. 159 adi- 
 oyneth. 160 striffe. vpon. 161 perehaunce. ouer whclue. 162 ^fol. 11a.) 
 oralis. 163 chaungyng. 164 other. 165 vp. 167 thinges. 168 Seriliteo 
 (sic). 171 more] gl. s. vino {sic). 172 Aboundaunt. 175 moclic] gl. s. 
 vinum. noble] gl. s. vinuw. 176 nouei'. 178 Left margin: nota. 180 
 Lette. P. 8. 182 neither, neither. 183 haue. 184vppe. 187grene 189 long. 
 190 (fol. 12.) Tourne euery. In right margin: (jouuernoMnce. 192 vp. 
 fast. 193 lande. thou s. 194 lande. 195 drasty. 196 Viisuffisaunt. 
 197 olyues lowe. 198 vpon. 200 lande. 201 souen. vp. thai. 203 Vp. 
 bynde. vndertake. 204 is] in. euor. 205 deluo. 206 lande. 207 goode. 
 209 vyne vp. 210 fasle. doun. P. '.). 213 in] on. In right margin: 
 Nota. 215 vre. 217 then. 218 (fol. 12a.) 219 warnie. vnprofltablo. 220 
 lande. ouergrowe. 222 Lette. vp. Icup. Icene. vnable 223 Couert. trauaille. 
 224 couuteruaille. 225 wbenne. :^26 As nygh it not] gl. a. dimitto 
 iacere. thowe. 227 crece] gl. crpseej-e faceve. 230 Percbauncc. 
 231 premynent. 233 Ner. howe. 234 Suffise. thowe. 235 se. seedc. 
 236 Preue. vnpreued greyne. 237 fecches. 238 Vp driede. P. 10. 
 239 vnsleyne. vp. 242 Be tyme vpon. 244 Haup. 246 (fol. 13.) In 
 right margin: Gouuernaunce. 247 yf] (/Z. pro quainws. 248 do] imperfect b 
 249 longe. 251 Vppon. 254 maner. In right margin : ypalage. 256 
 Trymenstre] gl. trinenstris ,(*2c). sednessj gl. sacio. 257 wynter. 259 
 
- 270 - 
 
 And other, counter] gl. contra. 260 Trymenstre. heruest. 261 landes. 
 nede] gl. id est serere. 263 heruest. 266 haue. P. 11. 267 grauel. 
 vnder. 268 plaunte. 269 cowmune. moolde amonge. a sender. 274 
 (t'ol. .13a.) lande. moeued. 276 admoeued. 277 premynent. 278 Vppon. 
 nyl. vndertake. 281 liuhric] De Agri electione vol situ. In right margin; 
 Ca™ vij. and below : De agri electione. 281 chiese or beye. 282 fecun- 
 ditee. 283 housbondyng. 284 Vnhusbondyng. vndooth. 285 Yit. 287 
 saue. hurte. 289 haue. 290 vptrailed. 291 haue. fresshe. 294 moolde. 
 P. 12. 295 chiese. 297 oute. 299 thor. 302 (fol. 14.) wilt. 306 drie] 
 gl. arent et indurant verbum est. 309 Bubric] De edificio. In 
 rir/ht margin:' viij' ca. 810 vp. 312 mysseauenture. 313 hous. yere. 
 314 atte. 315 grounde. 317 thi g. 318 Yf. 319 vppon. 320 Yf. 
 otlier, 321 Lets delue. vp vntil. 322 herdde. P. 13. 324 vmbi- 
 ronne. 325 vpon. 326 vpon. In right margin: ypalage. 328 shal. 
 warme. 329 loo. 330 (fol. 14a.) Rubric] De hibernis & estiuis mansi- 
 ouibus & pauimentis. In left margin: ix cap™. 331 sydo. 333 tymbre. 
 ■forto. 335 tymbre. -336 assho. 337 The] This. 338 flooryng. feme] 
 gl. Alice sternas. wecle] no gloss, chave] gi. palias sternas. 339 wronge] 
 gl. s. putrefacicndo. 340 part. haue. 343 aboue. 345 vp. 350 grauel. 
 P. 14. 351 Bubric] De calce & arena. In left margin: x cap™. 352 
 grauel. 353 G[r]auelles doluo. natures] gl. vel This is notable. 354 
 vnvariable. 356 fonde] ondeover an erasure. 358 (fol. 15.) In right 
 ■margin: GovernaMnoe. 360 grauel. 361 delue. floode. 362 grauel. 
 363 grauel. 865 resolue. 366 lande] gl. que fossilis es£. grauel. 
 sette. 367 sonne. dissolue. 368 grauel. coueryng. 369 grauel. 374 
 mynej gl. s. minera. 376 couer. tweyne] gl. s. partes, oon] gl. pwte. 
 H77 grauel. grauel. P. lo. 379 Bubric] De latericiis parietibus. xj 
 ca"i. with brike. 383 vppon. 385 couert. 386 (fol. 15a.) liubriV] De lumiBe 
 staoione & altitudine. In left margin: xij cam. euerie. 388 deuyde. 
 .'!89 heruest. 390 somer. 393 Bubric] De oameris canniciis. In left 
 margin: xiij ca™. 395 vpsette. 396 foote. 398 vp. 400 ffatte] gl. 
 frassa. reed] gl. canna. ygrounde. 403 vpon. 404 grauel. commixt. theron. 
 405 mixt. 406 vppe. P. IC. 407 Bubric] De opere albario. In left 
 margin: xiiij ca™. 408 Lyme. 412 alio. gluy. relent. 413 conuenient. 
 414 (M. 16.) Bubric] De tectoriis. In right margin: xv cap™. 415 
 first." 417 Thro. 418 aboue. 420 The thridde. 421 iJufiric] De vit.ande 
 valle frigida. In right margin : xvj ca". haue vsed. 422 duellyng. place" 
 fined s erased, depe. 426 haue. 427 ouery. gouuern. 428 Bubric 
 Do cisternis. In right margin : xvij ca™, vp. 429 Vnto. 430 The] gl 
 li° d». guttures] jii. fusoriis. left] g'Z. relictis. grounde. 431 yote. tilpauyng] 
 fjl. testaciuTO pavimentu/ra. 432 pauyng. laboure. 433 vp. larde] gl. lardo 
 rel axungia. P. 17. 435 vpwalle. euery. 436 weell. 437 enduelle. 
 438 waterflssh. eell. 439 fressh aswell. 440 ryuer. 441 Nowe. 442 
 ffol. 16a.) 444 pioche. 445 vp. 440 lete. youe. 447 niynge] gl. comisce. 
 yornej gl. sepe. 448 euery. vntil. 450 Vcho. euery. 451 euery. 453 
 water. 454 first of] is over an erasure. 455 Lycoure. aboue. 456 Bubric] 
 De cella Vinaria. In right margin: xviij cam. cold. 458 euerichoon. 469 
 ouel. 460 other. 461 Aboue. thi c. P. 18. 463 vp. 465 vat] t over 
 erasure. 466 lenght. 468 ouer. 470 (fol. 17.) Bubric] De horreo & 
 ornnario. In right margin : xix ca™. 473 hardde. 474 twoo. 476 euery. 
 (Ipuyse. 477 Tby. 478 sumdell. thryue. 48) vpon thy. 483 thy. 487 vnleest. 
 488 ffro f. 489 greke*'. 490 vnder. P. 19. 491 Bubric]!)^ Olefactorio. In 
 right margin : xx ca™. 492 oute. 493 Atto. 494 pressure oute. 496 wheles.- 
 4 oyl-es. 4 68 ^fol. IT a.) Bubric] De stabulis equorum et boum. 600 
 
-- 271 — 
 
 vnder. 501 ynder. oOa heete. 504 Nowe. 505 Towarde. In right 
 margin: xxj caw. 508 outc. somer. joue. 509 nygh] fatal e or t erased. 
 510 cold. 512 harmyng. 513 yok. 514]enght. 515 lenght. into, sough] 
 gl locum pro flmo bounw?,. 517 Vnder. 518 ynough. P, 20. 519 Etti- 
 ric] De corte. In right margin: xxij cam. 523 ouerfoldo. ,525 goode. 
 doome. 526 (fol. 18.) Bubric] De auiariis. In right margin: xxiij pa"'- 
 vp. 528 dounge eschowe. 529 aduersarie. 530 ouery. nowe euerio. 
 531 youre. 532 Youre. tourne oiite jour. 53:! Mubn'e] Do oolumbario. 
 In right margin: xxiiij cam. 534 fenestelles] cursive r inserted httween 
 t and e; also r .wrilten ahove. 535 ther. 538 spartea] gl. noia. ' 640 
 wesell. 542 vse an other. 544 Sum men 1 pray god letto it neuer the. 
 545 euery. fenestell] cursive r inserted- as in line 584. P. 21. 547 
 commyne. baumo] u written over v. 548 ynowe. 549 haue. 550 .benez. 
 ficches. 552 Letle. 553 advcrsaunt. eschewe] schewe over erasure. 554 
 (fol. 18a.) Bubric] De Turturibus. In right margin: xxv ca™.; coluer. 
 558 sweelnesse. 560 yfresslied. 561 Bubric] De turdis. In right mar- 
 gin: xxvj ca". thrusshes. vpon. other. 562 faato. auayling. 563 thai. 
 564 transuersaunt. 565 vppon. 566 Ychaunged. yeue. Commixt. 568 
 yf. 569 birche. wildolyve. 670 yeue. cbannge. 571 chaunged. water, blyue. 
 572 vnhurt. .574 amonge. P. 22. 575 Bubric] De Galliuis. In right 
 margin: xxvij ca-. 577 askes. 581 thowe. 583 (fol. 19.) -hacche. 584 
 in] is. 586 vnder thyne. 588 fiftene] gl. xv. . 589 other, .haue. 593 
 Thowe. 594 Grounde. putte. 597 tounge another. 601 vndo. . 602 
 or of a p. P. 23. 603 womans. 605 mixt. 606 coramyn. 608 sle. 
 luys] gl. pedicMlos. commyn. 610 (fol. ]9a.) Buhric] Do pavonibus. , In 
 right margin: xxviij ca™. pocok. vp, 611 theues. .612 vp. 613 vp. 
 614 myscheue. 615 broode. 617 cok] over erasure. 619 Vntil. vpon. 
 620 fl'euerer. loue. 621 bake] over erasure, loue. 625 his] is. 626 
 Aboute. euery. 627 neuer. fresshc. P. 24. 632 An other. 634. atte 
 eft. 636 sette. 638 (fol. 20.) 640 enstore. 641 goode. 642 vndertake. 
 643 Yit. greet. 645 al] gl. s. pulli. oute. 646 norice] gl. s. gallina. 
 651 yeue. first. 652 after. 656 after yeue hem. 657 xxx*'. 658 noroe] 
 gl. 9. gallina. P. 25. 65,9 She] gl. s. gallina. 660acorne. 661 leith, 666 (fol. 20a.) 
 Bubric] De ffasianis. ffesauntcs vp. 668 first, vppon. 669 vyues. 671 euery. 
 672 commune. 673 vppon. 674 afewe. 675 chaunge. 676 xxxti. 677 ffirst. hem 
 dayes. 678 bespronge. 679 after, breses] gl. locustas. 680 Aunt] gl. formice. 
 yeue. In right margin: ypalage. 681 water. 682 tar] gl. pix liquida. 
 683 saue. 684 shaue. 686 is] over erasure. P. 26. 687 , other., 688 
 enoyled] gl. oleo sparse, lite] gl. in offulas rodacte. 691 seruod. offes] 
 es over erasure. 692 vppon. 693 hungre. yonge. 693 (fol. 29.) Bubric] 
 De Anseribus. In right margin: cap™, xxx™. vp. 696 dounge. ,.699 
 heruest. 700 wonte] gl. vel lack. 701 trefoil] gl. trifolio. 702 gouldes] 
 gl.', intubis agrestibus. wilde] no gloss, grekyssh] gl. greco. hay], gl. 
 feno. 703 brune] gl. fust.i. 704 wlii. 707 Vntil. 708 ypon. ,711 
 vnder. euermore. 712 vnto. .713 tliildron. P. 27. 716 in wedir. 
 718 xxxti. 719 monethes. 721 close. 722 (fol. 21a.) euery. 723 manor, 
 ficche. 725 greke«. 726 commixt. 727 fresshed euery. 729 thowe. 
 730 be] are. xxxti. 732 but] gl. |Auctor loqvitur. thccs. 735 Igtbf. 
 
 736 Bubric] De pissinis. In right margin: xxxj ca™. This] gl. h»d°. forto. 
 
 737 stoon. In left margin: pondes. 738 water. 739 springe, foul] 
 gl. avibiw aquaticis. 740 swymme] wy over erasure. 741 wete] gl. 
 niadefacias. hides] gl. coria. 742 other] th over erasure. P. 28. 743 ' 
 Bubric] De feneli paleario lignarioque. In right margin: xxxij ca>». 
 tymbre. 747 ordeyne. charge] gl. precipio tibi. 748 foule. 749 nowe. 
 
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 750 (fol. 22.) Bubric] De sterculino. Thi. 751 saner. 756 alle. 759 olde. 
 761 ffresshe. 762 See slyme. 764 Bubric] De loois orti- & pomarij et 
 scpibus et serendo. In right mnrgin: xxxiiij ca'". 766 luce. 769 
 yf. P. 29. 771 lielpe. delue. 773 it self. 674 euery. 775 helpe. don- 
 ging. tillynge. 776 eschewe. 778 (fol. 22a.) 779 delue. 780 vppe. 
 781 Vppon. overwhelue. 782 upsidoune. saue. selue. 784 dyversly 
 deuyse. 786 haue. walle. 787 other. 789 euerichon. 790 vp. 792 
 tliorne. other. 7'93 thorn] gl. riibus caninus. 795 ficches. 797 
 nieddillyng. 798 tyme. P. 30. 801 vnder. 803 This] gl. h»d°. atte. 
 iltiyes mde. 804 branche. 805 Nowe. 806 (fol. 2i.) delue. heruest. 
 807 Yf. shal. heruest. delue. 808 shal. ouerblowe. 809 Ynder. twelue. 
 810 tables] gl. vel beddes. selue. 811 lenglit. 812 euery. 813 weete. 
 euery. 815 herbes. 818 other. 819 euery. 822 heruest. seede. 823 
 springing. 824 either. . 825 graff. growyng. 826 and] or. doone. P. 31. 
 Bubric] De rcmediis ortorum vel agri. In right margin : xxxv ca-". tak. 
 8-28 dyvers. 829 vp. 830 hail] gl. grandinoTO. 831 vppon. 832 bloody] 
 gl. cruentas. axes] gl. secures, lieuen. 833 him. 834 (fol. 23a.) 835 
 vp. 836 soo. In left margin: auctor. 837 rakes, shouell. 838 euery. 
 839 haue. 840 grecc. dyuers. 841 priuely. 842 neuer. 844 In left 
 margin: auetor. 845 vs. 846 trauaillc. 847 prophaned. 850 auntes. 
 851 vpon. 853 luce, rucul] gl. eruce. syngrene] gl. Semperuiue. 853 
 vp. P. 32. 856 vppe. 857 araonge. chicches. 859 other. 860 men- 
 struate vngord. vnshood. 861 Vntressed alle aboute. 862 (fol. 24.) 
 863 saith. 864 harme letc. 865 cantaride 866 Putto. 867 Thi. yf thowe. 
 868 Thi. crafte. 871asgoode. 873 disyoint] giZ. s. destruant. 874 tortous] ^Z. 
 tostudinis in corio. skynne] no ^Zo«s. 875 amonge. 876 ficches. 877 luce. 
 879 euery. 880 worte wormes] gl. publicum olorum. 881 steles. 882 
 lielpe. heel. P. 33. 884 cley and brymstoone] gl. bitumen et sulphur. 
 SS5 Aboute. rote] gl. vel dote. 887 Aboute. alio the., doo. 890 (fol. 
 24a.) Vpon thi. 891 she] he. enfeste] gl. s. noceat. 892 Demotrite. 893 
 neither. 894 floode. 896 vntil. 901 Pysmyres. 903 Vppon. 906 
 pauyment. P. 34. 912 oommyxt. 913 cocumber. 914 iuce wol slee. 
 dyuers. 915 Haue. other. 916 cucumber, cominyn. 918 (fol. 25.) Audi 
 As. movs Apuleyus. 921 vpclose. 922 doune. 923 shal. 925 thurle] 
 gl. perforant. nutte] gl. nucem. stuff. 928 Saue. vppe. 930 hem seme. 
 931 either, sterue. 934 The] Ms. Tc. wol. 936 smooke. 937 hertes- 
 horne. 938 lilee brent, alio. P. 35. 940 breses] gl. locustanim. 
 941 deuyse. 942 breses] gl. h»d°. 943 house, cowme. 944 Cocumber. 
 soure. 945 commyxt. dryue. beestes] gl. s. luoustas. 946 (fol. 25a.) 
 other, thees] gl. s. locuste. 948 other, lese] gl. perdere confundere. O.iO 
 vren. 951 Lete. 952 Byrayne] gl. co»pluo. vppon. 955 panohe. 957 
 In left margin: circumlocutio. 960 cocodrilles. 962 vppe. euery. 964 
 ingresse] gl. ingressu. 965 heuynesse. P. 36. 967 it] hir. vpright. 968 vpright. 
 969 vndersette. mayne] gl. vigore. 970 douneright. 971 thyng. 972 alle. 
 973 wioke. saue. 974 (fol. 26.) derke. ouor. 976 outher. 978 another. 
 979 euery. 980 girddo. euery, 982 saue. euery. 984 caluair. horssed. 
 985 vppe. alle. 986 euery. 988 In right margin: xxxvj ca™. 992 mixt 
 wit. 993 Vpshette. 994 after, doo. P. 37. 995 plaine. 996 Whenne. 
 cave] altered from cole, traces of \ & i, still visible. vjJon. 997 auaille. 
 999 shoures] gl. imbribus. 1000 haue. 1001 shoure] gl. imbre. 1002 
 (fol. 26a.) euerio. perflable. 1005 vpbryngeth. 1006 vpon. 1008 thorough. 
 1009 bee yerde. 10)0 In left margin: xxvij ca™. 1011 noo. 1012 
 or] of. 1013 herbes. 1015 sauery. 1017 other. 1018 lilly. 
 1019 socond] socoure is. 1020 euery. 1022 Vtree] yl. taxus. leue. 
 
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 V. 38. 1024 peletour. 1025 after. 1026 sauery. noon. 102d 
 vpon. 1029 busshes.] vnder. 1030 (fol. 27.) 1031 brooke amyde*. 
 1032 pulles, gl. lacunig. 1033 laugh. 1036 sleyne. 1038 hyues 
 hauyng. take] over erasure. 1043 titimalle. 1044 elebre] gl. 
 eleborus. 1045 Cucumber. 1046 leuer. 1047 alle. 1048 cold vnkynde. 
 1050 hyues. P. 39. 1051 hyue. 1053 hyues. stonde] ^i!. stare. 1057 
 catell] atell written oner erasure in a different hand. 1058 (fol. 27 a.) 
 hyues. alite. lOGO then, vnder. 1061 Wickett««. 1064 saue. 1065 
 jRubric] De apibus eniendis. In left margin: xxxviij ca"". 1066 preue. 
 murmurs. 1068 nyght. 1070 to. 1076 thay. 1077 calues. P. 40. 
 1080 In left margin: xxxix ca™. 1083 sonnes] gl. vel lightes. 1086 
 (fol. 28.) enolynyge. 1089 piles] gl. pile. 1091 vpon. 1093 leede. 1094 
 seetes. 1095 vndre. 1096 conduyte. 1099 lenght. 1100 heete. 1102 
 Thi. 1103 Vpon. wist] gl. seruatis. 1104 southren. wist] gl. scitum. 
 1106 goo. P. 41. 1108 but] hit. 1109 other, feele. 1110 vnstronger. 
 1112 Vppon. baathe. U13 wynter. 1114 (fol. 28a.) Conuenient. 1115. 
 In left margin: xl ca™. 1118 In left margin: Im remedium. 
 1119 brymstoone. U20 euery. 1J21 picche. euen weght. 1122 In left 
 margin: ij"> remediura. herdde*] gl. stupam. 1123 haluendele. 1124 
 cojwmixt. deche] gl. claudere. 1125 Buery. alle. 1126 In left margin: 
 iij Hemedium. White, picch. 1127 commixt. 1129 liquyde. herddes. 
 1130 suffisiauntly bigge. 1132 vpheleth. 1134 admixt. P. 42. 1135 
 grounde] gl. tuse. 1136 hard picche. 1137 other. 1138 picche. 1139 
 salue. overflame] gl. s. alline. 1140 sifted. 1141 seuum. euery. 1142 
 (fol. 29.) Bight margin: xli ca™. 1143 Asmoche. 1148 Shall. 1149 
 Rubric] De instruments agrestium. In right margin: xlij ca". 1151 vppe. 
 1156 vpon. 1157 cannibe] oaumber. 1158 braunche. 1159 away. 1160 
 alle. vp. 1 161 Get. rakes] gl. rastra. crookes] gl. s. sarculos. adses] gl. 
 s. ascias. bycorues] j/Z. bicornes. 1162 axes]<;Z. secures. P. 43. 1164 geldde] 
 gl. ferramenta castratoria. clippe. 1165 vs. 1166 theire. scolles. were] gl. 
 essent 1168 fl'or] gl. pro. In right margin: color traduct40M[is.] 1169 
 ffor] gl. s. quia, wodes. 1170 primus, vt imus. 1171 &. michi Chrisfus. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 p. 44. 1 (fol 29a.) Bubric] De ablaqueandis vitibus. lanuerie 
 ablaqueacj'oun. In right margin: lanyveer. 2 In left margin: Ca^i. 
 3 excodicaciouw. 5 euery. 6 delues. shal. 7 alle. 8 Bubric] De pratis 
 abstinendis in locis maoris. In left margin: ca"> ij. 9 nowe. 11 feeldes 
 Jaatte. In left margin: De proscindendis agricolis] ricolis written in 
 different hand and ink. 12 atte. 14 In left margin: cam. iij, drawyng. 
 15 balke*. vnered. 16 ouerheled] eled written in different hand over 
 erasure. 19 Transuersall. euerichone. 20 russhe. rodde] gl. particam. 
 P. 45. 23 after. 27 Demesne. 29 (fol. 30.) Title] lanyveer oyer middle 
 of page. Bubric] De ordeo galatico serend. In right margin: iiij cam. 
 lanvers. 31 londe. 32 haue. like] gl. plaoida vel clemens. In right 
 margin: v ca". 33 Nowe. like] gl. letantwr. 35 assaileth. 36 Bvhric] 
 De vicia serenda non ad pabulum sed ad semen haftendum. lanus. In 
 right margin: vj ca™. 37 ficches. 40 busshels. 41 alle. 42 hele] gl. 
 operi 43 B,ubric] De feno greco serendo legendi semewis causa. In 
 right .margin: vij ca™. haue. 44 lanes. 45 vpon. 46 commende. 48 
 Vpp P 46. 50 Bubric] De heruo serendo & de sariendis frumentes. 
 
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 lanes. In right margin: viij ca™. 53 sonny. In right margin: ix cam. 
 54 wede. 56 kerve. cold, after. 57 (fol. 30a.) Title] lanyveer. 59 Abouen. 
 blyue. 62 wedes] es over erasure. 64 beene. auaille. 65 To] So. 
 66 haue. trauaille. 68 weede. 69 after. 70 weede. 71 Rubric] De 
 pastinandi generibus & scrobibus vitinm. In right margin: x. ca™. 73 
 deluyng. 74 Thi] The. vnclene. doluen vppe. In left margin: primus modus 
 pastinandp]. ¥. H. 19 lonie. In left margin: secwKdits modus pastinand[i]. 
 80 deuyse. 81 Thenne. 82 vnereed. 83 otherwyse. 85 (fol. 31.) . 
 Title] lanyveer. In right margin : Tercius modus pastinandi. 89 vp. 
 91 euen. 92 In right margin: Iteium de primo modo pastinandi. 93 vp 
 alle. 94 vnderolosed. 96 euery. 97 vppe euerie. breres. 98 euerie. vsed 
 eueri. 99 Rubric] De tabulis vinearum. In right margin: xij ca™. 100 
 Hereafter. P. 48. 106 Rubric] De mensura pastini Italica. In right 
 war^in, xiii ca"". pastynyng. euery. 109 Lete. Ill thelue. 112 nomber. ouer- 
 whelue, 113 (fol. 31a.) TiWe] lanyveer. nomber. 114xviij. lloRenomber. 
 twyes. 117 omit (v. cccxxiv). In right margin: id est cccxxiiij. 
 120 Rubric] De solo & celo & loois pangejid-/*' vineis cowgrwentibMS. In 
 right margin: xiiij ca". 123 lene] gl. inclinet. 130 fere. 131 And] 
 Rude. P. 49. 135 excercise. 186 oute. 137 euery. 139 beete. 
 140 greete. Catchword Mols.sh cley. 141 (fol. 32.) Title] lanyveer. Molsli 
 cley] gl. resolute glarea. 142 Commyxt. vnder. 143 conseruatour. 145 
 sonderj gl. seperaniitr {sic). 146 swete. 147 Vpfilleth alle. that] this 
 148 selue. 149 commodiouse. wrecched. 150 neuer delue. 151 lande. reprcue. 
 152 Vndounged sleek, preue. 154 is] it. 156 oner. _ 157 Nowe speke. 
 leuyng. 158 attemporauntly. P. 50. 163 enuye. 165 Impedimentes. 169 
 (fol. 32a.) Title] lanyveer. Rong] gl. vliginosa. 170 bests. 171 preueth. 
 yf. 172 after. 174 delue. 175 him selue. 176 iJuiric] De lactuca narstucio 
 & aliis serendis.' In left margin: xiiij oa>». 177 December, remeeve. 178 
 ffeuerer either, ffeueryere. 182 euen. 183 yeue. 184 lough. 185 weed&s. 
 vppe. 187 prest. 188 presse] gl. preme. 189 vnder. presse] gl. prelo. 
 P. 51. 191 grauel. 192 Grauel. seed. 194 euery. 196 commeth. 197 
 (fol. 33.) Title] lanyveer. vmbigoon. 201 radissh. 202 and dounged] gl. 
 ho do, bay] gl. bacha. 104 in] gl. vel with. 205 Vpgoothe. deuyde. 206 
 luce. 208 other. 209 vppe. 211 pricke] gl. vel pointe. seedes. 213 
 vppe. 215 In left margin: auctor. 216 deriuyed. 217 yeueth. 
 abundaunce] erasure over aunce. P. 52. 218 Novpe. 219 houre haue. 
 doute. 222 vp. 223 serue. 224 vlpike. 225 (fol. 33a.) Rubric] De 
 pomis sive sorbo. Amigdalo & nuce luglandi. In left margin: xv ca™. 
 ffeueryere. 226 October. Nouember. 227 serues. liold. 228 
 ioolhoote] gl. euestgio. 230 haue. 231 vppe 232 Nouember. plaunte. 
 233 In] Atte. Marche. in] at. 234 ffeueryer. tempur. 337 serues. 
 238 Vppe. 239 plauntes. 241 That greteth] gl. grandescit. 243 the pith] 
 gl. meduUo. vnhurt] gl. h" a", the] thi. P. 53. 251 fruite. 252 Haue. 
 253 (fol. 34.) Title] lanyveer. when. 255 vnder. 256 aboue. 259 euen. 
 260 haue. grene. 261 vppe. opake] gl. vel derk. 262 saue. 263 Aysel. 
 265 almaund. lanyver. In right margin: De amigdalo. 266 yit. is] in. 
 267 October. Neuember. 269 yfette. 271 delue. vfherein nede. 272 
 deepe. 273 southe. vnder. P. 54. 274 fceldes. 275 loue. 27 7 elles- 
 where. 278 stande. 279 noone almoundes. 280 ffeueryere. 281 (fol. 
 34a.) Title] lanyveer. 282 watter] er over erasure. 284 moltou] gl. vel 
 liquide. 287 sette and in. vp. 288 euery moone. droughthes. 289 
 delue. 291 plaunte. atwene. 292 atte. 293 Nouember. 294 vtter. 
 297 anoone] over erasure, fie] fl over erasure. 300 stoone. P. 65. 802 
 coldde yf. 303 saithe. 305 stones. 307 that] thai, preue. 309 (fol. 35.) 
 
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 saithe. 311 water. 313 the L] (/Z. h" d». 316 thourgh. 319 whenne. 
 323 Wesshe. 325 December. lanyveer. 326 ffeueryere, 327 almount 
 329 propre. P. 56. 330 greke*. 331 lettres. 332 upon] gl. vel into. 
 SaeCafcha-oril Do, nuce. 337 (fol. 35a.) In left margin: De nuce. 339 aboue. 
 340 Almouiirles. Nouember. 342 lanyver. ffeueryer. stepe. 344 transuerse. 
 346 stoone. vnrlor. 349 tratisplaimted. atte. olde. 350 atweyne. 351 vncutte.yf] 
 gl. pro quamais. other. 352 plaunte. 357 smal] gl. vel creature, con- 
 (.•eyue] »o gloss. P. 67. R58 delues. 360 droppyng. 362 amylging] 
 gl. oirciim lossuram. 363 therein. 364 tunicke] trunks, vnto 865 
 (fol. 36) benefice. 36S euel. 370 doo. 371 topton] copron 372 haue. 
 373 antes] yl. formicis. saue. 377 euery. 383 yf] gl. pro quamuis. 
 P. oS. 386 grene. 387 greno. 388 vp. 390 vpon. 392 Atte lanyveer. 
 Ihay. 393 (fol. 36a.) Muhric] De pomis tuberum. In left margin: xvj ca™, 
 394 boon] gl. vel stoon. nowe alraound. 395 plomtree. conoeyue. graffe] 
 gl. siroulum. 397 precoqua, 399 plomtree.. gumme. 400 Rubric] De 
 si^nandis aniraalibus & lardi et pecnaritTO et echini et rapi co»feccio»ie. 
 In-left margin: xvij ca'". 404 I] y. 405 larde. flicches. 406 iuste con- 
 fecciou/j. 407 Rubric] De oleo uiirtino. In left margin : xviij caP^. lanus. 408 
 vncc. 409 vnce. P. 5S. 414 Rubric] De vino mirtite. In left margin: 
 xix cam. Nowe. 415 Tliroe] gl. h^d". 417 put] gl. impone. therein. 
 420 drynk. 421 (fol. 37.) 'Title] lanyveer. Rubric] De oleo laurino. In 
 right margin: xx ca"'. oile. nowe. 422 the] this. 423 deiecte. 425. 
 after, swymiuyng, 428 Rubric] De oleo lentiscino. In right margin: xxj 
 ca™. 430 heete. 432 soni. 534 rigour, vnderslake. 435 Rubric] De 
 gallinarum partu et cedenda niaterie ad fabricandum. In right margin: xxij 
 & xxiij ca™. Xowe. vpon] gl. after, wynter. 436 hacche. 437 make] 
 matere. 440 nioone. December were. P. 60. 442 Rubric] De horis. 
 Ill right margin : xxiiij ca™. first. 443 other, thries v] gl. xv. 444 
 twies vj] gl. xij. 446 vij as v] gl. s. a. viiij as iv] gl. s. xij. upthryve] 
 gl. crescunt. 447As iij is nyne] gl. s. xv. as ij is ten] gl. s. xix. forme] 
 gl. s. prima hnra. 448 Thelleueth] gl. s. xj. with] gl. s. xxix. 
 
 Book m. 
 
 p. 61. (fol. 37a.) Title] FBVBRYERB. 1 Rubric] seru- 
 andis & letaniine. In left margin: primum ca™. In right margin: 
 fl'everycer. ffeueryere. 3 leene atte pouere. 4 dounge. wynne] gl. lucrari. 
 5 Vpon. Wynne] gl. co modum. 6 graffe] gresse. 7 Aboue. luce, glyde] 
 (jl. vd slide. 8 In left margin: ij ca". 9 vppe. 10 In left margin: iij 
 (5a™. strie] (/i!. semiwaro. 11 In left margin: iiij ca™. Nowe. 14 excessyue. 
 15 vntil. 17 vppe. commixt. 19 Til. au] an. 21 chicches. In 
 right margin: 23 e. P. 62. 22 In left margin: v ca™. 23 londe. 
 24 In right margin: ypalage. 25 In left margin: vj ca™. yfonde. 26 
 vnderstondp] o altered from a. 28 cloddc] gl. ocoa. 29 (fol. 38.) Title] 
 ffeveryer. (lanyueer erased.) In] Atte. kalende*. 31 strecche. 32 alle. 34 
 lande. olde. serue. 35 til. reseruo. 36 Rubric] De heruo vij ca™. de 
 c. vitibws. arboribM.v viij ca™. In right margin: vij ca™. 39 In right margin: 
 viij ca">. Nowe bryne] vryne. 40 Vppon. roote. eree] small final e added. 
 41 vryne. 42 feire. 47 Nowe. P. 63. 50 the] thi. 51 whoos. 52 so 
 that.thaire. 53 conuenient. 57 (fol 38a.) Title] ffeveryere. 58 lene] 
 yl. s. lande. 64 saie. 65 euery. 66 discrecon. 68 euery. 69 is]. 
 
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 it 70 nomber. 72 &. 73 Vnto. 74 sauour. 77 euer. P. 64. 78 
 chaunge. 79 after. 80 uot] not. 81 meene] gl. s. minor. 85 (fol. 39.) 
 Title] ffeveryer. (lanyveor erased). 87 blossommyiip;. flouryng. 89 vp. 
 90 chaunge. 94 chaunge. 96 lande. 99 gemmes] yl. vel knottes. 100 
 braunche. 101 chaunge. 102 aboundaunt. 103 grape] ap over erasure. 
 twoo. 104 kneleth doune. vbertce. 105 other. P. 65. . 108 vptrailed. 
 110 The same atte s. Ill vpon. 113 (fol. 39a.) Title] ffeveryere. 
 fold. 118 the s.] thi s. 121 -vnbrende. 122 haue. 123 saue. 124 sprynt>ing. 
 haue. 129 lande. 130 pastynated. deuyde. 131euerie 132 in an acre. 133 MMM 
 and vo s. P. 66. 134 half. 135 VMD saue. twelue. 136 vp. 137 sclue. 138 
 delue. 139 Ouerward. 140 euery. Catchword Then Kest adoune. 141 
 (fol. 40.) Title] ffeu«ryere. 142 euery. 145 So] Do. diners s. 
 haue. 147 seuered. euerie. 152 after. 153 Space for 1:^ letters between 
 and and besinesse. 156 delues. 158 saithe. 159 lande. euery. 
 160 yf] gl. pro qwamuis. fecche. P. 67. 162 Wyndraf] gl. vinacia. 
 commixt. 163 plaunte] gl. plantam vel malliolura. 164 Putte. 165 any 
 thing. 166 gemmes] gl. vel. knottes. vpon. 167 leues. 169 (fol. 40a.) 
 Title] ffeuerer. Rubric] arhoTum vitiferarjrai. haue. 170 plantes] es over 
 erasure, the] thi. 171 vyne. 173 sette] fette. 174 euen diiluen lande. 175 
 plauntes. 176 plauntes. 177 alite asonder. gemmes] gl. pointes. 
 178 vnder. 179 twoo. 182 cutte. 183 diche] gl. vel delue. 184 other 
 touche. sounder. 185 encumber. 186 vp. 187 saithe. Mago] gl. s. ille 
 auctor. 188 vppe attu. ende. P. 68. 190 conuenient, 191 Omit 
 (putrify). 193 plauntes. 195 euery. maid] maner. 196 vnderstando. 197 
 (fol. 41.) plauntes. 199 Yf. 200 other. 204 the] his. 206 beeste*. 
 diching. 208 better. 211 vnto. 214 vnto. 216 ywounde] 
 gl. intortum. P. 69. 218 "Within'ne ayer. 219 vnder. 220 Hit so be 
 k. vnto. 221 sette. 223 liste. 224 serue. 225 (fol. 41a.) Title] 
 ifeuerer. Mubric] prouincialibus. In left margin opposite rubric: xi ca". 
 Prouyncial. 226 breef. 229 vppe. 230 Vpbounde orbiouler. 232 Rubric] 
 humilibws. In left margin: xvij ca"". 233 Groodo. 235 Septemtrion 
 
 236 auis the [the staff of the t A'(s been extended below the Une-{?)later.) 
 
 237 other. 238 heruest. 239 strength] th written over erasure, nlway. 
 thigh] 1 altered from e. the] thi. 240 Twoo hardnes. 241 growyng. 244 
 Lete. 245 The] Thi. P. 70. 246 hier] i over erasure of (?) e. 247 leene. 
 declyve. 248 Lette. 249 places, noo. 250 then twoo. 251 vpon. 253 (fol, 42.) 
 Title] ffeuerer. 254 braunches. 255thegh]3i. crus. 256reuocate. 257concauate. 
 259 vp. vppe bygrounde. 263 awounde. 265 busely] vnfely. 266all6.vp. 269 
 leene in iche in iche an a. 270 braunche. extende vp. P. 71. 274 Vpon. 
 havdde. leve] gl. dimittas. 275feeounde. 276 fruyte. lave] gfl pampinare. 278 
 Alite aboue. 280 vnder. 281 (fol. 42a.) Title] ffeuerer. Rubric] putacione. 
 In left margin: xiij ca". 282 atte. 283 euerie. 284 vp. 285 haue. 
 286 haue. 287 vppe. 289 Braunches. by. 290 vppon. 291 nowe. 
 292 ramal. 293 euerie. vnbinde. 295 the] thi. 296 other. 298 leene] 
 1st. e over erasure. 301 vppon. In right margin: ypalage. P. 72. 
 302 vppon. 393 vp. other. 305 ronk. 307 were] we over erasure. 
 308 kerve. 309 (fol. 43.) Rttbric] putac«one provincialiuHs. provincial. In 
 right margin: xiiij ca™. 311 braunches Icuo. 313 Vpborne. commune. 
 315 first, after. 316 Rubric] nouelle putac^'one. In right margin: xv ca™. 
 317 After. 318 The fourme. other. 321 lettej leue. 323 vppe. 
 324 yeue. after. 325 Atte. vppe. 327 braunches. 329 deluer. P. 73. 
 330 Rubric] propaginibus. plecheth] gl. propagat. In right margin: xvj 
 ca"". 831 freten. vyne] v written over erasure. 333 delue. vnder. 334 
 vnder. 337 (fol. 43a.) Title] ffeuerer. after. 338 braunches. 339 vpon. 
 
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 340 after. 343 nowe. 344 Bubric] insicionibMS. warme. In left rnargin; 
 xvij ca™. 345 solennyse. 347 Anl And. nowe. 348 deuyse. 349 vnder. 
 351 vnder. 353 vnhresed. 354 iiUr. 358 vnhurte. P. 74. 360 Vpon. 
 vppe. 365 (fol. 44.) cley vppon. 367 vp. cley. 368 straitely. 370 & 
 shave] yshave. 371 saue. 377 fresshe. P. 75. 386 Ane] And. 387 
 first deuyde. 388 .vnto. 390 Thai cleye. 392 stooke. vntil. vpstande. 
 393 (fol. 44a.) Title] ifeuerer. enfourmed. 394 euery. 395 Vntempered. 
 396 Putte. 398 Vnto. 400 emplastringe. after. 402 vnto. 405 twoo. 
 406 euen. into. 407 cley. 409 Spainald. 410 badde. 411 preued. 
 413 sadde] dde written over erasure. P. 76. 414 bore] gl, penitrare. 
 415 plaunte. 416 vppon. that] this. 421 (fol. 45.) Title] ffeuerer. 
 ioine. 422 vnder. 423 euerie. 424 fruyte therom. 426 Vpon. 
 loueth. 427 children, other. 432 euerie. greette. 434 thai s. 
 haue. 436 euerie. 437 binde. 438 vppon. southe. P. 77. 442 vppe. 
 atte euerie. 443 delue. 445 vpon. 446 haue. 447 sondy. 449 (fol. 45a.) 
 Title] ffeuerer. potters cley. 451 cheve. ooke. 452 crabbtree. olyues. 
 454 feruent. 458 coniinia. 459 other wey. 460 vuwriten. vs. 462 cor- 
 rupte. 464 quantitee. 466 preserued. 468 xl. P. 78. 470 south- 
 west. 471 delues. 472 bestcs. 47.'3 Vuneth. 474 seluen. 476 set- 
 tyng. 477 (fol. 46.) Title] ffencrer. 479 plaunte. noone. 482 trans- 
 plaunte. 483 cold. 484 haue. olyues. 485 wey] gl. interposicio. vtilitee. 
 486 vppe. 488 plauntes. 489 thi semynarie. 490 vnto. 491 Nowe. 
 Septenitrion. In right margin: xix ca. 497 saue. P. 79. 498 Yeue 
 euery. seluc. 500 thi plauntes. 501 uppe. stande. 502 leene vnto. 
 504 Transplante. vp. 506 (fol. 46a.) Title] ffeueryere. sette. 506 plauntes. 
 507 delue. 508 other. 512 In left margin opposite rubric: xx ca'". 513 
 The] Thi. delue. eree. doone. 514 Nowe. 515 other. 519 ffirst. 522 plauntes 
 nowe. evesiohone. 523 braunches nowe. 524 vtilitee. P. 80. 526 omit 
 the. 527 seedes. 528 me with] inewith. 531 nowe. 532 Rosaires. 
 533 (fol. 47.) Title] ffouerer. vmbydelue. 534 plauntes. 537 deluyng. euery. 
 538 iSTowe lilly. .542 vppe. 543 other. 544 plaunte. 546 delue. 548 sorueth. 
 562 delues. P. 81. 555 mooldes moiste. 557 water. 560 haue. 561 (fol. 
 47a.) Title] ffeueryer. 562 vneseth. 564 bareine. 566 plaunte. 568 In 
 left margin opposite rubric: xxiiij ca™. Bubric] herbis. 570 ficches. 671 kepe. 
 575 euerie. delue. 676 Vntil. Ek. 577 plaunte. 578 ooriaunder. 580 
 Nowe sauery. vndounged. P. 82. 583 Jsowe. heruest. t88 Catchword 
 ffatte lond. 589 (fol. 48.) ffatte. 690 Oynons. 595 bittir. 590 luce. 601 
 vppe. 603 vp. 604 Nowe. 605 euerie. vnder. 608 haue. 609 shal. P. 83. 
 610 seede. 616 Septemtrione. 617 (fol. 48a.) Title] ffeuerer. there] gl. in 
 Septemtrione. sauoure. 618 loue. 619 eueridell. 620 a sender. 634 
 brasic. 637 newe] nowe. P. 84. 638 goode. 639 Wilde. 640 hable. 
 642 alle. 643 euery. 645 (fol. 49.) Title] ffeuerer. plaunte. 647 Nowe. 
 648 vppe. 650 seede. plauntes. 653 oynons. nowe. 654 After, ydus. 
 656 synke. 657 Transplaunte. hem may me s. 660 delue. 661 nowe. 
 664 leve] lette. 666 Tit otherwise. P. 86. 666 plaunte. water. 
 667 haue. 668 October. 669 transplaunte. londes. 670 doluen. saue. 
 673 (fol. 49a.) Title] ffeuerer. 674 cutte. euery. 676 vmbiwette. 677 
 hande. 678 reise. 680 vnder. 681 ful. 684 seede. 686 ydoono. 687 
 nowe. Cannete*. 688 eyen] gl. ocitlos. 689 doluen. P. 86. 696 
 euer. 698 euer. 701 (,fol. 60.) Title] ffeuerer. Bubric] arboribw*. 
 In right margin: xxv ca™. plaunte. 702 ffeueryere. warme. Nouember. 
 704 thir] ther. 706 suche. 708 staury. ohaunge. 710 plaunte. 715 
 delues. 719 dispeire. 720 targing. 721 eternitee] gl. s. nature. 
 P. 87. 725 Nouember. 727 delues. doluen. 728 vnder. 729 (fol. 50a.) 
 
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 Title] ffeuerer. 730 sweto. 735 delue. 738 deluer. deluynge. 739 evei-y 
 otber. 741 aboute. roote. P. 88. 750 lete. 753 noone. 754 vppon. 757 (fol. 
 51.) 762alle. 763 other. 764 weete. 769 iilmoiinde. 770 Poolde] jfZ. Orno. 
 ashes] gl. fraxino. quynce] gl. cydonis. ponyk] gl. punico. cleefj gl. s. 
 finde. stile] gl. s. lignum. 777 euM-y. nianer. P. 89. 778 sauery. 781 
 Til. 783 vnto. 784 vj. 785 (fol. 51a.) Title] ffeuerer. 786 grene. 
 787 picched. vpwarde. 790 Coiitinuelly, 793 heap. vppe. 795 picche. 
 closte. 796 delue. vndor. inwith. 797 sonue. vppon. 800 ypio- 
 ched. 805 euery side. P. 90. 809 picched. 810 lene] gl. ma- 
 ceret. 811 stepe. 813 (fol. 52.) Title] ffeuerer. 819 vpheped. 823 
 xxx*!. 824 Nowe. vnto. vse. 826 vp. ayeine. 829 hem trade and 
 f. & all. 830 omit (pure). 831 picched. 832 after, P. 91. 836 blak- 
 kisshe, 849 October. November. 841 (fol. 52a.) Title] ffeuerer. 
 843 grauel. 844 watter. 845 sette. vre. 850 graffe. 854 
 haue. 856 loueth. '857 neither. 858 vnto putacioun. 859 elaci- 
 oura. P. 93. 865 to'uche. 867 vryne. 869 (fol. 53.) Title] ffeuerer. 
 vppon. 870 scrape, scrape. 871 vppon. 872 ouere. 874 it] eke. 
 876 plomme. 877 &. &. 879 ouer. 881 vppon. vnder. 882 save] 
 faire. 883 Thees. 885 picched. 886 And] An. other g. P. 93. 891 
 ycalde] a altered from o. 893 water. 895 picched. 897 (fol. 53a.) 
 Title] ffeuerer. picche. 899. vnder, 901 amonge. 902 petifeet] gl. pedi- 
 culos. 903 yntil. 905 aboue. 906 In right margin: xv c. f. 907 
 plauntes. haue. 908 Citee] over erasure, ffeueryere. 911 haue. 
 912 ffruyte haue. if. 913 October. 914 Nouember. 917 loue. 
 P. 94. 920 loue. 923 wynde. 924 vntil. 925 (fol. 54.) Title] 
 ffeuerer. donge. 927 serue. alle. 928 Eterne] gl. continue. 930 
 vmbydelue. 931 That] This, selue. 932 Feueryere. 983 October & 
 November. 934 doluen. 936 that] this. 937 preued haue. 939 The] 
 Thi. 941 resoluyng. 942 roseyne. In right margin: yronia. P. 95. 
 948 ffeueryere. 951 euerie. In right margin: traductio, 953 
 (fol. 54a.) Title] ffeuerer. luce. 953 olde. 956 aswell. 957 bene- 
 ficed. 958 wyse. 960 euery. 961, 962, 963 In left margin: Defrutum 
 id est sapa s. mustum decoctum ad consumciowem duarwrn partium & 
 &\citur triplioatum. In right margin: Passum SecM«dura ysidcrum (!) quic-- 
 i\Hid ex vua passa expressum &st et decoctum. 962 oute. 966 & a. 
 967 yver. 971 ynough. P, 96. 975 other. 977 Nouember, 978 plauntes. 
 979 loueth. 980 feeldes. 981 (fol. 55.) Title] ffeuerer. 983 anoon. 
 984 delues. 985 plomme. Almoundtree. 986 fruyte. 987 faire. 988 vppe. 
 992 cither, vuhurt. 993 in] is. vmbygoone. 997 And] An. 998 saue 
 alle. 1000 October, toppe] (/^. inicio. 1001 November. P. 97. 1002 loueth. 
 1005 Moche. gladdc. 1006 deluyng. 1009 (fol. 55a.) Title] ffeuerer. 
 October. November. 1010 plauntes. 1011 ffeueryere. 1012 delues. 
 1013 strecche. 1015 Vp. boringe. 1017 euerie. "]019 October. 1020 
 vnto. 1023 vnder. 1025 groteth] gl. grandescunt. 1027 slake. 1028 I]y. 
 plauntes. 1029 nowe thair. P. 98. 1031 Jules. 1032 Nowe. 1033 moolde. 
 1034 vp. 1035 humoure. 1036 plaunte. vppe. Catchword hem may. 1037 
 (fol. 56.) ont] me. serve] gl. s. sorbo. 1039 bones, mastik. serve] gl. 
 servire. 1040 plaunte. 1041 In right margin: 38; b, c, d. 1042 Nowe 
 plommes. 1043 lande. 1046 hem] him. buddes (point under s) gl. germine. 
 vngrowe. 1047 plauntyng. 1048 luglande. nowe. 1049 hem] him. nowe f. 1051 
 Tiubric] educaoi'one. In right margin: xxvj ca'". 1054 snowted. 1055 
 tattes. 1056 vntil. 1057 vyve. P. 99. 1060 dependaunt. 1061 lickely. 
 1063 euery. haue. 1064 goode. 1065 (fol. 56a.) Title] ffeuerer. 1067 
 
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 ydoone. 1069 hem. 1070 thai. 1071 Nowe. 1072 haue. euery. 1073 feeldes. 
 1067 reede. 1078 wynter. yeue. 1079 yeue. 1080 melche. nouelles. 
 1082 Vnder. 1083 euery. P. 100. 1086 tiombcr. vp. 1088 vp. haue. 
 1090 thaire 1091 delue alUr. 1092 deluers. 1093 (fol. 57.) Title] 
 SeuereT.Inrigktmarginopposiieruhric: xxvijea". 1094 olde. 1097 aftej-. 1100 
 In right margin: xxYU] ca.'^. 1103 euery. 1104 suche. iape. 1105 finger. 
 1106 pithe. 1109 saue. yit other. 1112 squylle. P. 101. 1114 halde. 
 rootes. 1115 doothe. 1117 vntil. 1119 vynes. 1121 {fol. 57a.) ffeucrcr. 
 In left margin: xxix oa™. 1121 Ungreyned] g]. vua sine gram's. locunditee. 1122 
 sauncz. 1123 alle. 1125 shal.' sarmentj gl. scion. 1126 Asmoohe. 
 1127 away, screve. 1128 shaue. euery. 1129 ioyne. 1131 papir. 
 tl36 sarmentes. 1137 cleue. vse. an other. 1138 Vntil. In left margin, 
 the gloss having been partly cut uff in trimming of page: [ojpium fit ex 
 succo papaucrorwrn nigrorwnj (n partlij cut away) viridium scissis lenit«j- 
 [cjapitellis. 1141 dooth. P. 102. 1143 haue. 1144 Vntil. 1147 grekes. 
 1149 (fol. 58.) Title] ffeuerer. Rubric'] lacr/mosn. As] Of. //( right margin: 
 XXX ca". 1151 wounde. ]152 fruyte. 1155 vuderkest. 1156 Rubric] 
 confeoc«o. cowmaundeth. In right margin: xxxji" oa™. 1157 mirte*. 
 1158 Tnces. 1159 the] thi. and wrie] ywrio. 1160 All. 1164 presse. thai. 
 
 1166 stene. In left margin: Cotula co«tinc;i! ciatos tres. 1166 vnto. 
 
 1167 eiectyng. 1168 declyne]_ </?. s. sle. P. 103. 1170 rasate. In 
 right margin: xxxijm ca™. 1U2 Sarmentes scions, sum. 1174 amonge 
 vndure] gl. resolue. 1175 lie] gl. lixiuum. 1176 vppe. 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 p. 104. Title] Marche. {.,Marche" begins at top of fol. 58a., two 
 stanzas having been omitted. The missing stanzas appear in the Fitz 
 William Ms. where they are on the same page with a stanza of interlude. 
 The] gathering, whose signature is „h," is regular and complete.) 1 In 
 left margin opposite rubric: primum ca". Atte marches, cotitree. 2 Puta- 
 cioujt. In right margin: Marche. 3 Atte. ffeueryere. In right margin: 35 
 pro totum & 37; a, b, c, d. 4 vntil. 6 who so. 9 Vnolde vnrende. 
 10 ygemmed. 13 saue vppon. other. 16 truncke. 19 vppon. 21 this] 
 gl. s. vento. P. 105. 22 atte. 24 vppon. 25 vnwynk. 26 braunche. 
 29 (fol. 59.) Title] Marche. dissolued euer. 32 delue. 34 euery. 35 In 
 right margin: singula singulis. 40 tbair. 42 In right margin: 33; f, g, 
 h & 34; c, d. 43 In right margin: ij ca™. 46 vnder. 48 Bernotes] 
 gl. berneta. 49 it] over erasure. P. 106. 50 In right margin: iij ca™. 
 56 sexster. In right margin: Sextarium contiuet sex libras. 57 (fol. 59a.) 
 Title] Maxcbe. In left margiti: iiij ca™. 58 stepe] gl. macera. 59 But] Hit 
 vppe. 61 lukewater. 63 loue. heruest. 6i In left margin opposite rubric: y 
 ca™. & vj cam. 66 ffeueryere. 71 Rubric] nouellis pulverand«« vitibws 
 fodiendis &c. In left margin : vij ca™. Nowe puluerised. 72 Kalende*. 
 73 October, sle. weede«. 74 lande. 75 vppe. 76 delue. 77 vppe. 
 P. 107. 78 swethe. 82 vpholde. henynesse. 83 In right margin: sin- 
 oopa. 85 (fol. 60.) Title] Marche. 86 aboue. 87 Vnoonnyngly. 91 In 
 right inurgin : Kfletigesis. 92 ouer. 93 saue. 96 fede. 98 altc;'. 
 98 vmbydehie. scecle. 101 vpon. bryno] vryno. ]Pi plaister. it] i.s 
 P. 108. 107 vppon. 109 Jn tight ninrgin: C'oiigms contiuet vj suxt[ar|ia; 
 sextarium, sex libras. ymmote] (//. ifJimoveas. 110 basket lull. Ill other. 
 112 BryneJ Vryne.113 (fol. 60 a.) 117 thees. 118 thorowe. twoo. 125 semynary. 
 
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 126 vppe. the] thi. 127 In left margin opposite rubric:ix^. ca™. 129 yppe. 133 
 a sender. P. 109. 134 ynuerse. 137 Tuto. yointe. 139 Vntil. plaunte vppe. 
 141 (fol. 61.) Title] Marohe. 144 luce, either. 146 vp. 147 haue. 
 vnguent.. 149 plauntes. 150 horde] gl. vd a beddo. 153 euerj. 156 
 cattes] gl. catos. 157 touche hem w. 158 wesoll. haue. 159 othar. 
 160 Haue. P. 110. 162 vppe. 163 Cucumber luce, 164 grene. other. 
 165 vnlike. 166 vlpike] gl. vlpicus. 169 (fol. 61 a.) Title] Marche. Nowe. 
 &. 171 plaunte. 172 Nowe leekes. 174 raves. 175 blesse. 179 after. 181 longe. 
 184 foote. 185 enter] gl. inter. P. 111. 192 Vnder. vppe. 194 seede] 
 gl. vel core. 196 In left margin: Colcasia quaere, herbe. 197 (fol. 62.) 
 Title] Marohe. 198 euery. 290 fruyt. 202 vnder. 205 potte. 206 
 henyngne. 211 glaade. haue. 212 ferule] gl. ferula. In right margin: 
 ferula similis est aneto, sed niaior et lenissima nodosa, senes pro baculo 
 forunt. P. 112. 218 Spc7-age. 220 who] two. 221 thai] thou. 222 
 aboue. 223 vpon. 224 pi'mie. 225 (fol. 62a.) Title] Marohe. after three. 
 227 vppe. 231 euerie. 232 intil. 233 oalle] gl. vel dope. 234 twoo. 
 235 Tnorisshed. 236 in] is. plauutynge. 240 weete lande. summytee] 
 gl. summitate. P. 113. 246 eyen] gl. ooulos. germynaoJou«, 247 pullyng. 
 after. 248 occupac/ouH. 250 fecounde hem selur-n. 253 (fol. 63.) Title] 
 Marche. 260 ouerwrio. after. 261 vppe. 264 plaunte* 265 Trans- 
 plaunte. plaunte. slaye] gl. ocoiditMr, 266 other] gl. quidam. 267Bcalons] gl. vel 
 hulbes. 271 delue. 272 ferd is it vnolenp. P. 114. 274 October. 
 275 omit (sette). is] in. 278 goode humoMr. 279 c-uery kynd. wortes. 
 281 (fol. 63a.) Title] Marohe. loue. 283 seed. 284 vp. 286 lette. 
 287 vppe. 295 plaunte. 299 Comraeth. vp. P. 115. 302 In left margin 
 opposite rubric: x ca™. 304 November, loiieth. 307 Goode. 308 plaunte. 
 puldde. Catchword In dyvers wyse. 309 (fol. 64.) Title] Marche. 311 
 greett]^?. manuhrii crassitudijie. 314haude] lande. 319 enuersed. 322 ynough. 
 323 ouer. 324 heruest. umbideliie. 326 hemselue. 327 underdelue. 
 P. 116. 331 vpon. 332 viryne (sic). 335 outher. 337 (fol. 64a.) Title] 
 Marche. tree the trunke. 338 wynde] ^Z. inuolue. 340 squille. 341 euery. 
 347 thorafter. 348 asse. &. 349 dye. 351 &. vpon. 354 will] wol. 
 357 her. P. 117. 362 oute. 364 crafte. 365 (fol. 65) Title] Marche. 
 luce, portulake] gl. pusselane. 366 mixt. 368 vppe. 370 sejointe] 
 gl. seiuncta. 371 Marche. 375 picche. pedifeet] gl. pediewlos. 379 
 nyghtes. 380 Leue. theroute. 381 vppe. vse. 383 here. 385 beth saue. 
 brothir. P. 118. 391 humotjr. 393 (fol. 65a.) Title] Marohe. ther oute] 
 gl. subdiuo, haue. 394 vpp. 395 tenes] gl. tenacibw*. 397 vp. 398 
 goode. keep. 404 Vchoon. 407 &. 410 pioohed. 411 vpp. 412 
 Irest. Ill right margin: ypalage. 413 hony. saue. P. 119. 414 Marohe. 
 4 15 seode. braunches &. olaue] gl. c. id est r. ra. m. 416 loueth. diuise. 
 417 after, euer. 418 haue. 419 dolucn twoo. 421 (fol. 66.) Title] 
 JIarohc. And] Ther. 423 vpp. 425 braunches. 426 transplauntyng. 
 -128 rote] gl. putrescat. & claue. 430 either, ysmothed. haue. 432 prickes] 
 gl. aouleis. 433 saue. summyte. 437 haue. 439 braunches. 440 drenohe. 
 441 handes. haue. P. 120. 443 loueth. 444 vpholde. geueth. 445 
 contree. And tild] ytild. 446 enclose. 449 (fol. 66a.) Title] Marche. vnclose. 
 450 feruentest. 452 Atte luill. 454 I am expert] gl. interpo«rtw. that] be. 
 458 deluynge. 459 prouyde. &. 463 pertree. molburytree. 467 
 wittenesse. Gloss over that seeth] interposicio 468 saieth. 469 
 othinge. P. 121. 470 &. 472 after. 473 after, prooedeth. 477 
 ffol. 67.) IHlr] Marclie. chaunge swete. 479 mylk] gl. ouillo lacti. 480 
 ireuerjeie. 481 upward. 482 vnlil. 483 swelnosse. 487 vnder. 488 
 priuily. vpp. 491 stree. 496 mixt. 497 mixt. P. 122. JSIovember 
 
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 braunches. sette] gl. sere. 499 either. 501 vmbydelvyng. 505 (fol. 67a.) 
 Title] Marche. 606 vryne. 507 lyrae. vnthryve. 509 yit. 510 and h.] & h. 
 511 Vnto. 513 Auntes. 515 mys like. 516 malle] gl. percutere. 517 hem] 
 him. ffeveryere. 518 hem] him. 521 graded. 522 beeth. 523 melowy. 525 
 picched. P. 123. 526 In left margin: Pusoa est vineacea facta ex aqua 
 periecta musto extracto vel acetmn aqua mixtum. 528 a lite. 531 In- 
 founde. vntil. 538 (fol. 68.) Title] Marche. plaunte. 534 November. 
 535 ffeveryere. 539 luce vpon. 540 plauntes. 541 vpon. 542 knotted. 
 544 braunched. 547 greyne in with. 551 ffeveryere. 552 plauntes 
 greet. 553 yeer. P. 124. 556 plaunte. 559 plaunted. 560 Vpp. 
 561 (fol. 68a.) Title] Marche. squylle. devide. 562 plaunte. flgtree. 
 564 delues. 565 and d.] & d. 567 euery. 569 Haue. 570 vse. to] is. 571 
 sauoMi'. 575 alle haue. 576 yeue. distaunce. 578 plaunte. enhaunce. 
 579 avaunce. P. 125. 582 ioyeth doluen. 583 mewe] gl. auiario. 
 589 (fol. 69.) Title] Marche. 591 euery. 592 luyn. 593 flgtree. 
 596 southerenwode. 597 vpp. this] thus. 600 abondaunce. homes. 
 601 truncke. 603 saue. 605 plauntes. 607 euerie. 608 vryne. 
 P. 126. 610 vseth. cley] gl. bitumene. other, he] gl. tercius. 611 lyme. 
 haue. 612 Auntes vnto. 613 picche. buttir. 614 truncke. vtter. 615 
 Picche. vpp. 616 Auntes. other. 617 (fol. 69a.) Title] Marche. 618 water- 
 mixt. 619 Vpon. 621 Vpp. 622 vpp. 623 vpp. asswithe. 624 other. 
 625 eue'ry. 627 whenne. 634 tacke. longe] gl. diu. 635 Vuripe. luce, 
 scalons. 636 mixt ennoynte. P. 127. 689 Vnder. yonge] gl. novelle. 
 643 luyn. 645 (fol. 70.) TitU] Marche. 647 luyll. 648 October, 
 plecheth] gl. propagat. 649 molbury. 651 vse. other. 654 euerie. 
 655 cutte. afte«-. 667 piocheth. 660 Ages, euerichoone. 663 yit. 
 665 brynnyng. P. 128. 667 picched. 668 &. 670 vnder. 672 chiste*. 
 673 (fol. 70a.) Title] Marche. plauntes. 675 &. 676 &,. 677 Comixt vpp. 
 679 germinaunt. 680 vned] gl. adunat[i]. 681 dyuysed vnytee. 683 or] and 
 plomme. & molbury. 684 Kalende. 687 Bubric] comparandis bobr«s. In 
 left margin: xj ca™. 691 contynnacitee. „672" (692) From this point 
 to the end of the boolc IV, 20 should be added to each verse-number. 693 
 "Whiche. whiche. P. 129. 694 &. 696 cripse &. 698 &. 700 Vnto. 
 701 (fol. 71.) Title] Marche. 705 &. 709 aieres. 711 contree. 716 &. 
 720 s. to on w. 721 nowe. P. 130. 724 ferdefull. necke. aruge. 726 
 haue. strecte. likly. 727 the] this. 729 (fol. 71a.) 730 Blak. 732 &. 
 733 vndertake. 734 caluyng. 735 In right margin : coitur. 738 grekes. 
 740 &. 741 &. 742 vpp. 746 haue. P. 131. 751 Yit. feture] gl. ca- 
 luyng. 756 Catchword Lest thai. 757 (fol. 72.) Title] Marche. haue. 
 757 vtilitee. 761 &. 762 Humoure. 763 obiect. 764 Exon] gl. boues. 
 767 &. &. 770 noo thing. 773 oute. 775 Nowe. &. yok. 777 &. yokkes. 
 P. 132. 778 Nowe. &. 780 and] &. 782 &. 783 flappe. 785 (fol. 72 a.) 
 Title] Marche. &. 788 in with. 790 first. 793 him. 794 doune. 796 nor] 
 ner. 797 houngro &. 798 & vse. 802 euery. haue. 803 &. 804 &. 
 805 haue. P. 133. 806 other. 808 &. &. 809 him. 810 vnlike. 812 
 buttookes haue. &. 813 (fol. 73.) Title] Marche. 814 &. 815 yshoode. 
 & 816 haue. 818 vppon. 821 nases. 822 &. &. 826 &. 828 &. 
 829 vndertake. 830 &. scued. 832 & permixt. 833 &. P. 134. 836 
 discoloured. 839 &. 841 (fol. 73a.) Title] Marche. 843 monethes. euerie. 
 844 An other. 846 manor droves. 847 &. 848 &. 853 swuylle. 854 
 iointe. 856 Infole. 859 That thai may mylk her foles abundaunce. 
 P. 136. 864 after. 866 prikker. 869 (fol. 74.) Title] Marche. 873 
 Nowe. 874 &. 875 euer. vphonge. 877 &. 879 atte. 881 aboue atte. 
 882 atte. 883 sexe. 884 atte. 885 Atte. alle icliohe. 886 atte. 887 
 
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 vnevon. 888 tethe. Nowe. beste«. P. 136. 890 so do delite. In right 
 margin: xiiij ca™. 892 Yfourmed. 893 stronge. one] oon. 894 vnto. 
 895 Til. 897 Tfol 74a.) Title] Marche. 898 whenne. 903 malincoly. 
 904 &. 905 & a. 907 &. yfourmed. 908 &. 910 fforto. &. me] ne. 
 912 stronge &. 916 ospringe. 917 variaunt colours. P. 137. 921 bolde. 
 924 nedefuU. 925 (fol. 75.) Subric] inflrmitibiw. curacione. that] this. In 
 right margin: xv cam. 926 after winter. 927 &. 930 helppe. 931 &. 932 
 pomgarnates. 933 dewe siriake] gl. rore Siriaco. 937 roosmaryn] gl. 
 rorem marinum. 939 clorded] gl. contracte. 941 corces. 944 &. 945 &. 
 P. 138. 950 doo. 952 &. 953 (fol. 75a.) Title] Marche. 956 horde] howe. 
 multiplie. 958 (for thi. weep] gl. vel drepe. 959 vppe. 960 vppe. 
 generac«ou«. 962 expu gaciouw. 963 euery. Kalende. 964 haue. 
 wyntcr. 965 wormys] gl. vermicttlos. 966 thost. 967 ensense. 968 
 vnder. &. 970 vneten. 971 vnclene. 973 been] gl. esse, been] gl. apibus. 
 seruice. P. 139. 974 Bubric] De horis. In left margin opposite rubric: 
 xvj cam. Octobre. 976 thridde. 977 vp. 981 (fol. 76.) Title] Marche. 
 982 dide. 983 saide. 984 alle. aduersaunt. 985 stedfest. 986 and] Ms. 
 am. 987 special!. 788 saluacfoun. After interval of 4 lines: Explicit 
 liber quartus. 
 
 Book V. 
 
 p. 140. 1 The following stanga is in larger writing by the same 
 hand, and is underlined in red. 4 Bucry. saithe. thenne] gl. inde vel 
 bine. 5 lugement. 6 houre haue. 7 nowe. 8 Auerell. 9 Bubric] eius. 
 In right margin opposite rubric: Aprill Aprill (sic). Atte. In right 
 margin: primum ca™. 13 &. 14 vppe. ariseth. 15 sufflseth. 16 (fol. 76a.) 
 Title] Aprill. 19 vp. 22 &. P. 14-1. 23 seedes. 24 after, thinketh. 
 25 thi. 26 encreseth. 27 there. 30 In left margin opposite rubric: 
 ij cam. nowe. 31 ytaugh vnder. In right margin: 38; b, c, d. 35 delues. 36 
 vppe. vntil. 37 him. 38 vpp. 39 moolde. &. vp. 40 vpp. &. 42 com- 
 myssure. 44 (fol. 77.) Title] Aprill. graff. 45 after, parcell. 47 sette. 
 49 grekes. Jules. 50 lande. P. 142. 53 Vnsctte. 54 doluen. 55 
 cojwmyn. 56 eree] gl. vel plows, vpp. 58 Bubric] diuersis. In right 
 margin: iij ca™. 59 Brasik. serueth. 61 euery maner. 65 kyndes. 
 66 &. 68 Secounde. 70 vppe. 71 haue. 72 (fol. 77a.) Title] Aprill. 
 P. 143. 80 Arage. 83 youthe &. 84 vpp. 86 vnnecessarie. 88 &. 
 89 plaunted. 90 luce. &. 94 thervppon. 95 vpp. 98 N. is it w. nowe. 
 100 (fol. 78.) Title] Aprill. horsmyntes] gl. sisimbrum. 101 OucujJiber. 
 102 &. 103 plaunt<;s. 105 moolde. g. & golde*. In right margin: do 
 prima saciono intibe habetur: 57; a. 106 secoundly. moolde. P. 144. 
 107 Bubric] eius. inferuent. 108 luyn. londcs. 109 &. louetb. 110 plaunte. 
 Ill plauntes. 114 & vnder. 117 o»w'« (in). 118 &. 119 wynter. 120 vtter. 
 121 loure] gl. trist«.s- sit. borscombe] gl. strigilus. 122 &. enbaume. 
 128 (fol. 78a.) Title] Aprill. 129 &. temperate. In right margin: 60; 
 0, f. 130 haue. 131 Kalendes. enoculate] gl. inoclare. 132 In right 
 margin: 65; e. 133 Cicurtree. 134 gratf. In right margin: 62; c, d. 
 P. 145. 185 sette] gl. plantata. In right margin: 63; e, f, g, b. 136 
 In right margin: 65; d. 137 sette] gl. posita. 138 haue. In right 
 margin: 6; e. 139 plaunte. 140 &. serue. 141 serue] gl. servire. 
 142 In left margin opposite rubric: v Oa™. 143 vncos. 146 theroute] 
 gl. sub diuo. 147 vndewy] gl. sine rore. 149 Bubric] nutriendis. &. 
 In left margin: vj cam. Nowe Oalues. 153 Cowtmixt. Nowe. 1541amber] 
 
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 er over erasure, first. 156 (fol. 79.) Title] Aprill. Bubrici apibiw inuesti- 
 gandis & alueariis. In right margin: vij ca™. 158 &. 159 Vtilitee. 
 P. 146. 163 Rubrik] gl. vel radQl. 164 euery. 166 after whiderwarde. 
 169 comme. 170 Kytte oute. &. side] gl. latere. 171 &. 172 swete. 
 wyne] gl. defructum. beside] gl. iuxta. 175 after. 181 sewe vppon. last 
 be] bee. 184 (fol. 79a.) Title] Aprill. vnto. sewte. 190 & 1. P. 147. 191 
 Nowe. &. 192 fire] sue. 194 &. haue. 195 on] in. shaue. 197 & vnder. 
 198 Vppe. &. 202 vnfeyned. 204 Nowe. nought. 205 Nowe. flee] slee. 
 206 malues. 207 brynke*. 211 Vchone. thinges. Catchword Aurel with. 
 212 (fol. 80.) Title] Aprill. Rubric: de Horis. In right margin: viij ea™. 
 Avrell. September. 213 Ooii. twyes xij] gl. xxiv. twyes vij] gl. xiiij. 
 214 seuen. 216 & x. 217 & iij & jj & i. P. 148. 219 JRubric] & 
 praefacio. Following stanza underlined in red. 221 saluatour. Jesse. 
 222 euerichon. 223 vs. vsyng. 225 ypborn. 
 
 Book VI. 
 
 p. 149. 1 Opposite rubric: May. In right margin: pnmum ca™. 
 weete. 2 In right margin: 54; h, a. 3 euery. 4 Vntouched nowe. 
 5 are] owe. 6 grete] gl. grandescere. 7 ripenesse vntil thay. 8 
 (fol. 80a.) Title] May. AUe. 9 puis. 13 Wende. 14 haue. 15 Rubric] 
 nouelle sarmentes. In left margin opposite rubric: ij Ca™. Considre nowe 
 sarmcntest 16 fewe. 17 vp. 19 swethed. 20 ouerthrowe. 21 noo 
 matier. P. 150. 22 pampinacioura. 23 Conuenient. 24 vppon. occupa- 
 cioxm. 25 noo. 27 vp. &. 29 Rubric] proscindendis. nouis. In left 
 margin opposite rubric: iij ca™. feeldes. 30 vp. 31 weet. 34 cowjmyn. 
 36 (fol. 81.) Title] May. 38 Vnto. ayeine. 39 oboue. 42 picchelonges. 
 46 vp stocke. 47 leue. 48 is] it. 49 thi. P. 161. 50 Haue vp. storne 
 vnto. 51 vncomber &. 52 risshes. 57 Rubric] ablaqueandi's. In right 
 margin: 23; a. iiij cam. 58 conuenient. 60 hewe. it] is. 61 commune. 
 64 (fol. 81a.) Titie^ May. doluen. 70 tourne. 71 Rubric] spaciis ortorM«j 
 pastinandi* & ssxmnihus. In left margin opposite rubric: v ca". 72 haue. 
 73 In right margin: 72; h. 74 & Coriaunder. 75 In left margin: 
 gourdes. 76 transplaunte. 77 vp. avaunte. P. 152. 78 pomgarnate*. 
 79 In right margin: The same afore (80) 60; d. 81 Vppon. 87 Citur- 
 tree. 88 dyvers. In right margin: 61 d, &c. per totum. 89 Nowe 
 ziziphus. 90 colde. 92 (fol. 82.) Title] May. Nowe. castractouM. 
 93 boles] veles. 94 occupaciouM. 95 solonder. 97 &. 99 tongcs. 
 100 graunte. 102 strynges. leve] gl. demittantur. 103 This. 104 enlyne. 
 105 &. argentyne. P. 153. 106 &. 109 bowys. &. Ill &. after. 
 112 & saue. 113 Castracioun. 118 haue. 119 score. 120 (fol. 82a.) 
 Title] May. 121 yre] gl. ferramentum. 123 yre] gl. ire s. doloris. 124 &. 
 125 &. 126 saue. 127 Rubric] ouium. In left margin opposite rubric: 
 viij ea". 128 vncture. lupynys. 129 luce. 130 bothe. &. 132 Here 
 with, aiier. P. 154. 137 ouer. 139 haue. 141 In left margin op- 
 posite rubric: ix™. ca". 142 other. 144 euery. 145 pyion. either. 147 
 vnder. storne. 148 (fol. 83.) vp. 149 after vnder. 150 aboute. 153 fleyke*. 
 156 al though. 157 &. 159 avyce. P. 155. 162 other. 163 he] be. 
 164 haue. 165 luce. 166 savowr. 169 Rubric] examimb«(S apium 
 augmentatis. In right margin: x Ca>". 172 grekes. 173 oestros. 174 
 vnresteth. 175 In right margin: 75; e. 176 (fol. 85a.) Title] May. In 
 left margin: xi ca™. 178 haue. 179 transuersal an other. 181 thervpon. 
 182 foote tempred. 188 euery, brik, 189 ipi»ta togedre. P. 156. 
 
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 190 togedre. 193 yerdes. 194 nowe. &. 195 Tilette] gl. tesellas. 196 
 In left margin: yperbole. 197 In left margin: xij oa™. Nowe. 200 &. 
 202 longe euery. 203 broode. 204 (fol. 84.) Title] May. In right 
 margin: xiij cam. & xiiij ca™. 205 is for to. 207 & vse. 209 oute] 
 gl. sub diuo. 210 glasse] gl. vitro, longer. 211 euery. vnce. 213 & m. after, 
 oilderose] gl. oleum roseum. 214 &. 216 luce. P. 167. 218 In right 
 margin: xvij ca™. vnclose. 223 &. 225 Bubric] &. prme h. 226 vndron. 
 227 vndron. 229 lemes] gl. vel bemes. In right . margin: Sincopa. 
 230 after noone. 232 (fol. 84a.) Buiric] & prefao«o. So] Lo. 234 
 fforth] gl. vel forride. 237 drope. 239 luyn. 
 
 Book yil. 
 
 p. 158. Title] lUTN. 1 In left margin: primuwi ca™. luyn 
 2 after. 6 &. 8 suffre. 9 an other. 10 after. 12 &. 13 & s. 15 
 (fol. 85.) Title] luyn. In right margin: Secundum Cap™. Nowe. repe. 
 anende] gl. consumnianda. 20 vpon. 21 lete. vnbounde. P. 159. 23 
 hoote. 25 In right margin: Metaphora. 26 vnlaced. 29 vp. 32 vp. 
 34 vp. 36 iowe] gl. s. tabula anterior. 37 erees] gl. spicaritm. vpwarde. 
 42 euery. come] gl. vel man. chare] gl. vehicMlwm. 43 (fol. 85a.) Title] 
 luyn. In right margin: paragoge. 45 lift. 47 vpwynde. P. 160. 50 
 In right margin opposite rubric: iij ca™. vndoon. 51 now] not. feelde*. 52 
 grasy] gl. herbosa. may] gl. possunt. 53 nowe. ficches] gl. viciam. rowe] 
 gl. rugosam. 54 fayngreck] k imperfect. 55 foddir. euery. 56 heruest. 
 huls] gl. cum stepitu metere. 59 saue. 61 &. vpplucked. 62 &. vp. 63 
 grobbes] gl. gurgulionibi«s. saue. vp. 64 Lupyne. 66 faste. 69 smeke] 
 gl. fumMS. 70 perpetuel vppon. 71 (fol. 86.) Title] luyn. Bubric] 
 herbis. In right margin: iiij™ can>. 74 deuaunt. In right margin: 72; h. 
 75 In right margin: 73; g, h. 76 & Ooriaunder. 77 vp. sete vel swete. 
 P. 161. 78 Bubric — et] de. In right margin opposite rubric: v"> ca"'. 
 In right margin : ypalage. 79 In right margin: 60; d & 77; d. 81 omit 
 and. ouer. 82 luce. 84 ziziphus. 85 In right margin: 64; e. f, g, L. 
 87 haue. 88 cold. 89 plaunte. vmbydeluyng. 90 luyl. insiciouw. 91 
 emplastracioun. 93 luce. 96 bookes. 97 vppe. braunches. 99 (fol. 86a.) 
 Title] luyn. Vnder. 100 vnhurt. 102 &. &. 103 vnhurt. 104 aboue. 
 105 an lother. P. 162. 106 vpon &. vmbe] gl. circa, euery. 108 deuyde. 
 110 Vnbynde. Ill Howe. 113 Bubric — omni] ouium. In left margin: 
 vj oa". 114 In right margin: 77; f, g, h. 117 In right margin: 78; e &c. 
 pro totum. 118 vsed. 119 sheepe. In right margin: 78; c, d. 120 In 
 left margin: vij ca™. castracioura. 121 somme] gl. summa. 122 significacioun. 
 123 AUe. summe] gl. mwrmwrent. 124 haske. humme. 125 omit (sic). Here last 
 sheet of gathering J" and first of ^m" are missing. P. 163. {Here is inserted 
 a sheet of July that belongs just after fol. 88.) 127 (fol. 87.) Thus] Bo. 
 sifte. 131 vptemperyng. 133 haue. In right margin: 79; f. 134 J?M6n'c] 
 Alflca. Alfike. 135 vppon. In right margin: xij oa". 136 ooen. 140 
 luyn & luyl. foote*. 141 xx] xxij. prime. In right margin: xlij ca™! 
 142 vndern. vndern. 144 Nowe. chaise] chare, vpthrive. 146 wried] gl. 
 vel stied. 148 (fol. 87a.) {This stanza written large in same hand akd 
 imderlined in red.) saluz. ymne. 149 lubile. 150 iesse. rootes. 151 
 maieste. is] gl. vel art. sitte. 152 He] gl. vel So. 153 That] gl. vel Thi. 
 oloos. vs. 154 yit. 155 vp. 
 
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 Book VIII. 
 
 p. 164. (fol. 87a.) Title] lUYLL. 1 Bubric] omit &c. In 
 left margin opposite rubric: Pn'mum cap™, vp. 3 while] gl. tempus. 4 
 In right margin: 80; f, g, h. 6 vpp. grovve] vv lihe w with two dots 
 beneath. 7 nowe. 8 haue amonge. 9 caste] gl, prosternere. 10 
 ouej-throwe. 11 wynes. 12 pouder] gl. puluerate. 13 Canyculere. 14 
 Haue vppe. brende. 15 (fol. 88.) Title] luyll. Rubric] seminlbMS. In 
 right margin: 8ecund.um. ca™. 16 weete. Arage. 18 malues. 12 
 feldes. P. 165. 22 loueth. heldes] gl. deuexa. 27 lande. 28 ayeine 
 vppe. 32 suffisaunt. 35 other, greete. 36 haue. 40 plaunte. 43 (fol. 88a.) 
 Title] luyll. Rubric] Implastraeione. In left margin opposite rubric: lij 
 ca". emplastraciouw. In right margin: ypalage. 45 haue. inoculaciouji. 
 In right margin: 81; h, & 82; a, b, c. 48 vnto. P. 166. 50 Nowe 
 plaunted. In right margin: Orenge qwaere. 51 wattred. 53 eneye. 56 
 Almaundes. 57 In left margin opposite rubric: iiij oa". 59 atte. nowe. 60 
 AUe. 62 &. 63 werth] werk. 64 abondaunce. 66 caluyng. avaunce. 68 Iche. 
 70 in] to. 71 (fol. 89.) Title] [uyll. 74 begete. P. 167. 82 vntil. wolle. 
 85 loDge. 86 woolly. 87 Suche. thi. 88 haue vbertee. 90 vnclothe. 
 95 ofre] gl. vel profre. 96 coffre] gl. ventrem vel matricem. 99 (fol. 
 89a.) Title] luyll. sheepe. 103 summen. P. 168. 106 In left margin: 
 ym cam. 108 vppo. 109 Clpur] gl. ciprei. tonges] gl. bidentes. 110 toles] 
 coles, fourneys. Ill grasses] MS. graffes (sic). 112 fordo. 113 In left 
 margin opposite rubric: vj*«ni. ca™. 116 Wei. 119 Ikest. 120 & s. 122 xlW. 
 125 solueth. 127 (fol. 90.) Title] luyll. Canyculer. In right margin: 
 vij ca™. 130 naked] gl. inuestes. In right margin: Carenarium esi vas 
 musti. 132 alle. after. 133 xxx*i. P. 169. 134 In right margin: viij 
 ca™. 135 hardes. 137 myddilwarde«. 139 vnces. 141 xlti. 143 picched . 
 146 anvnce. smal] gl. aliquantulum. 147 vse. 148 In right margin: ix"" cai". 
 150 thervppon. 151 spaynyssh. 153 thinges. vse. 154 luyl. luyn haue. 
 155 (fol. 90a.) Title] luyll. In left margin opposite rubric: decimum ca™. 
 159 leueth. 161 vppon. P. 170. 162 Rubric] 1. & pmefacio. {This 
 stanza written larger and underlined in red.) 164 disioynt. 165 yit. 
 168 Thi Prince I mene. 
 
 Book IX. 
 
 p. 171. 1 Rubric: do agris exilihus arandis & vindemia paranda. 
 In left margin opposite rubric: Pri'mum ca™. In left margin: Aust. 2 
 feeldes. 5 omit (arayed). 7 vynes roote vnwried] vnw d; ed over erasures 
 8 (fol. 91.) Title] Aust. In right margin: SecMndMm ca™. 12 vppe. 14 
 Alle. 15 Rubric] Yitihus. pampinaciou«. In right margin: iij ca". 16 
 ouertake. 17 occupacioun. 18 yre] gl. vel hete. 19 obumbraciouji. 20 
 lougly. 21 vp. P. 172. 22 Rubric] vrendis. In right margin: iiij ca™. 
 27 vppe. 28 glaade. 29 In right margin: v ca">. 31 winter. 36 (fol. 
 91a.) Title] Aust. novel. 37 thyne. 41 dounge. 46 besinesse. 48 
 Vnneth. P. 173. 53 brasik. 55 vtter. 57 Rubric] apibus. In left 
 margin opposite rubric, on two lines with bracket: vj ca" & vij ca™. 52 
 summen. 60 sharnebodde] gl. crabrones. 62 vndooue. 64 (fol. 92.) 
 {Out of place in MS. being bound so as to follow 93. The binding is 
 modem.) Nowe. vp. In right margin: viij ca™. 65 ley. right. 68 In] 
 
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 An. vpon. 69 picche. yeme] gl. concidera. 71 ynsmellyng. 72 vnswete. 
 74 vp. kepe] gl. in cavernis terre. 76 Vncertainly. P. 174. 79 
 Certayne. &. vbertee. 80 aboundaiioe. 84 & s. luke] gl. tepide. vnsweete. 
 86 Vnder. 90 yvy] gh hedera. vyne] gl. vitis. 92 (fol. 92a.) Title] 
 Aust. vpdelue. 94 a doune. 95 ygrounde] gl. scoured. 96 downewarde. 
 vpwarde. bothom. 97 moolde. 98 Vppon. vntil. 103 vneled. alete] gl. 
 resolvir. P. 175. 106 woolle. 108 we] me. 118 Septentriouw. 119 
 Goode. multiplicaciouB. 120 (fol. 93.) Title] Aust. to] w. In right 
 margin: ix ca">. 121 alum] gl. alumen. 123 deluers. 125 Butif. 129 this werk 
 is. 130 haue. 132 euer. thorle] gh perfores. P. 176. 134 vppe. 135 
 holde. 138 thai] thou. 140 Admyxtiouj?. 146 thay. 147 doute. 148 
 (fol. 93a.) Title] Aust. In left margin opposite: x™. ca™. 152 goode. 
 154 licowr. 158 The] Tho. P. 17f. 162 In left margin opposite rubric: 
 xj cam. 163 Ohanels. omit (in).' 165 Chanel. 166 euery. 168 haue. 
 169 thi. 170 alone, thorough. 174 lede] gl. ducere. 175 lede] gl. 
 plumbare. Catchword In conditis. 176 (fol. 94.) Title] Aust. 178 
 haue. 183 ioyntes. 184 mixt. 187 vnhoolsom. P. 178. 190 Bubric] 
 ponderibw* fistularMm. In right margin: xij ca™. 192 thousande. 
 195 fewe. 197 Counflt. honyonfake. In right margin: xiij cam. jgg 
 luce. 199 mightely. 202 vnder. 203 after, cloos. 204 (fol. 94a.) In 
 left margin opposite rubric: xviij cam. 205 To] Lo. 208 after. 209 
 after. 210 vp. 211 Rubric] libri & prefacio. {Stansa written larger and 
 underlined in red.) alpha & 0. 212 gynnylynglos. 213 vntil. 216 
 iugcraent. 217 vphinge. 218 Septembeer. 
 
 Book X. 
 
 p. 179. Title] SEPTEMBER. 1 In left margin above rubric: 
 Vrimnm cam. vsing. 8 (fol. 95.) Title] September, clyves] gl. cliui. 16 
 euery. 17 vp. 18 vppe. 20 tynic. P. 180. 22 Atto. 23 thonne. 26 
 vppon. 28 wynes p. 29 vligiuose. In right margin: SecMwdtem cam. 
 34 vppe. 36 (fol. 95a.) Title] September. Mubric] Remediis. In left 
 margin opposite rubric: iij cam. yp. 37 Ther. instrie] gl. adice. 43 
 hienes] marginal gloss: hiena est quoddam animal. 46 bestes. 47 luce. 
 Cedum] marginal gloss: edum id est senermum, id est cardws benedictus. 
 P. 181. 50 luce, wilde. vseth. 52 summen. haue. 56 euery ioynt. 57 
 Bubric] canterino iiij cam. de lupino v cam. In left margin opposite 
 rubric: iiij cam & y cam. 59 euery. 62 loueth. 63 sufiiseth. 64 (fol. 96.) 
 Title] September. Bubric] serendo vj cam & de sisano vij cam. j,j 
 right margin: vj cam et vij cam. 66 in] is. 67 Sysane. In right 
 margin: Sisanurw est) semen. 69 vppe 70 shal. 71 Bubric] vicia 
 feno greco &. ficche. In right margin: viij cam. 72 strike*. 76 
 vppon. P. 182. 78 Bubric] euertendo. In right margin: ix cam. 79 
 oute. 82 vppe. 85 Bubric] nouellis. In right margin: x cam. §6 leuyng. 87 
 pike. 88 ner. 92 (fol. 96a.) Title] September, euery. 95 exej'cise. 
 after. 97 clodde«. 98 ffresshe. thi. 99 vpon. 100 that] thai. 101 
 meedes ouer. 102 shaue. lenghte. 103 seede. P. 183. 109 ficcbes. 
 Ill vnwattred. 113 In left margin opposite rubric: xj cam. ne picche. 
 118—119 In left margin: Co«giu)?i mensura liquidorMjn sex continens 
 sextaria & sexterium sex libras. 120 (fol. 97.) picche. 123 picche. 
 wynes. Between 123 S ISi should be inserted 1S6, which has been 
 misplaced by the editor. 126 Vpon. 127 Bubric] metendis. Nowe. In 
 right margin: xij cam. 128—129 In right -margin: ffaselum est genus 
 
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 leguBM'nis multo melius quam Pisa. 131 hande. 132 excercise. 133 
 ioyneth. vpon. P. 184. 134 Rubric] papavere. In right margin: xiij 
 cam. 139 haue. 145 louetli. 147 til. 148 (fol. 97a.) Title] September, 
 loueth. 151 hir] his. luce. 151 diche. 153 Somer. 158 Pasneepe. 
 159 October. 160 Coriaunder. P. 185. 162 In left margin opposite 
 rubric: xiiij cam. kalendes. 163 ffeueryere. 166 yp. 168 vpon. vppe. 
 169 summe. 172 doluen. 174 lanyveer. 175 ffeueryeer. 176 (fol. 98.) 
 179 vntil. 182 Milde. picobed. 183 Rubric: pauimentis & latej'ibus xv 
 ca™. de diamo xxvj ca™. (sic.) In right margin: xv ca™ et xvj ca"i. 
 184 descrived. In right inargin: 79; f, g, h. 187 luce. alay. 188 Vp. 
 189 vntil. P. 186. 190 Mubric] seruandis. vnhurt. In right margin: 
 xvij ca™. 191 Neithej'. 193 corrupcion. 194 tenes] gl. bot7ionu»i 
 tenaces. blent] gl. vel bront. 197 Bubric] De vite cuius In right 
 margin : xviij ca™. 202 September. 204 (fol. 98a.) In left margin 
 opposite rubric: nouum cap™, xiij and xi] gl. xxiiij. 208 after. 210 
 other. 211 Bubric] September & prefacio. (This stanza written as last 
 epilogue.) 212 vnto. 218 vs. 216 desse. bolde. 
 
 Book XI. 
 
 p. 187. TitU] OCTOB.EiJ. 1 Bubric] cant erino, &c. In left 
 margin opposite rubric: pn'mum can>. 2 lust. 8 vntil. 5 ende] diligenter. 
 8 (fol. 99.) Title] October. 10 Nowe flcchea. 11 Sysan. In right 
 margin: 93; e. 12 after. 15 In right margin: SecM»d«me cam. Uketh. 
 17 euery. P. 188. 22 In right margin opposite rubric: iij ca™. 25 
 Reputeth] gl. ml accounteth. 28 craftes] graffes. 29 Bubric] propa- 
 gandis. In right margin: iiij ca™. 33 reparyng. 35 (fol. 99a.) Title] 
 October, wynter. 40 there. 41 dominac?ou«. 42 efte ablaqueacioun. 
 43 Bubric] ablaqueanda nouella. omit vitibus. In left margin opposite 
 rubric: v ca">. After. 45 vnto. 47 ner. P. 189. 53 December. 57 
 Rubric] vtillitete propagaoioms vj cai". de inserend?s arboribus vij ca™. In 
 left margin opposite rubric: vj ca™ & vij ca™. propagation. 59 occupacion 
 61 branohe. 64 (fol. 100.) Title] October. 65 vppe. In right margin: 
 viij cam. 67 Olyvetes. 69 Olyves. 70 vndrie. 72 Yit. P. 190. 
 79 euery. 83 vtter. 85 vnto. frenssh. 89 olde vryne. 92 (fol. 
 100a.) Title] October. In left margin opposite rubric: ix ca™. 94 must] 
 gl. rausti. commyng. greke«. 96 heirylete] heuy lete. On left margin 
 opposite rubric: x ca™. 101 and. 102 euerie. P. 191. 109 bispringe. 113 
 Rubric] herbis. In left margin opposite rubric: xj ca™. 114 
 loueth. 116 Space for word of 6 letters between hem and playne. vpon. 
 120 (fol. 101.) Title] October. 121 iche. 124 vppon. 127 euery. 128 
 fedde. 129 ioy. 130 seede. P. 192. 185 gret. 144 vppe. 146 euerie. 
 148 (fol. 101a.) Title] October. 152 nowe Eke Armarik. 157 And] Eke. 
 P. 193. 162 In left margin opposite rubric: xij ca>". purveaunce. 163 
 haue. 166 vnder. 170 vnder. 174 delue. 175 Catchword Salt water. 
 176 (fol. 102.) Title] October. 177 seke] gl. egrotare. 179 seke] gl. 
 querat. 180 barbe. 181 euerie. 184 Vntilled. 186 togeder. 188 
 vnder. 189 man kynde. P. 194. 190 vse. 192 dispence. 194 vp. 
 ther rise a. 195 ffeueryere. whenne. 197 loueth. 198 in] atte. 204 
 (fol. 102a.) Title] October, vp gooth. 205 plaunte*. 218 vp. 214 
 lanyveer. 216 truncke. P. 195. 221 obseruannce. 223 gumme 
 vpon. 232 (fol. 108.) Title] October. 237 ayeine. 238 either. 239 vppe. 
 P. 19C. 246 luce. 250 faynte. 258 ryvullyngo. 260 (fol. 103a.) 
 Title] October. The] This, londes. 261 Atte. ane] and. 267 In left 
 
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 margin opposite rubric: xiij ca»°. In right margin: 42; e, f. g,'h. 269 
 half. 271 helle. P. 197. 274. In left margin opposite rubric: xiiij ea™. 
 grekes. 277 wynes wynes heuy. 280 socoured. 286 comrrmne. 287 is] 
 it. 288 (fol. 104.) Title] October. 290 haue. 298 after. 299 mightily. 
 P. 198. 303 whenne. 304 holde. 306 reseyne. summen. 307 Thre 
 vnces. 316 (fol. 104a.) Title] October. 320 dothe. 321 gliricide. 322 
 AUe. 324 montane. 329 vmbre. P. 199. 333 faste vppon. 335 drynk. 
 338 -wynys. 339 wel. 341 eke for to. 342 wynes. 343 Wo. haue. 
 344 (fol. 105.) Title] October, greek. In MS. line 348 follows line 
 350. 351 mirre. 353 brayng. 356 saue. P. 200. 358 vnce. 359 vnce. 
 362 vppe. 363 v] 1. 370 afre] gl. affra. 371 serueth. 372 (fol. 105a.) 
 Title] October. 375 after. 377 strik. 381 Malowel gl. altee. 385 
 therto. P. 201. 387 cors. 392 Nowe. 393 &. 396 commixt. 400 
 (fol. 106.) Title] October, trouble] gl. feculentum. 404 omit (to). 
 406 vsed. 407 Appollo. 409 vnces. Sqwinuant. 410 vnce. mastik. 
 411 vnce. 412 vnce. vnce. 413 vnce. P. 202. 415 the] thi. 424 grene. 
 428 (fol. 106a.) Title] October, vnto. 432 vppe alle. 436 vppe. 437 
 myracle. 438 vppon. 439 vppon. P. 203. 442 countwr. 443 trete] 
 no gloss. 445 vnce. 448 vse. 449 egestioun. 451 questiouw. 
 456 (fol. 107.) Title] October. In right margin: xv ca"". 457 grene. 
 Citurtree. 463 Rubric] pomorum xvj ca™. de ynomelle xvij ca™. Nov?e 
 euerie. 463 — 464 In right margin: xvj ca™ et xvij ca"". P. 204. 475 vp 
 bent. 477 vppe. 478 But] Hit. 484 (fol. 107a.) Title] October. 
 Rubric] Defructo. In left margin opposite rubric: viij cam. 495 
 deservyng. 486 thicke it be Carene. 487 vnto. 488 nys. 491 Nowe. 
 vseth. In left margin opposite rubric: xix ca". 496 Vntil. with] 
 werk. desolue. 497 devolue. P. 205. 499 vuder. 503 locounde. 
 505 In left margin: xx ca»>. 508 vp. 509 haluendel. 512 (fol. 108.) 
 Title] October. An other. 513 omit (of). 517 vnces. 519 vnder. In 
 right margin: xxj ca"". 522 loues. 524 Nowe. P. 206. 526 Bubric] 
 vva. greca. In right margin: xxij ca"». 531 after. 533 leef. 534 
 Vnder. 635 a doon. 538 vpborn. 540 (fol. 108a.) Bubric] October. 
 In left margin opposite rubric: xxiij ca™. 543 houre] om corrected to on. 
 546 phebus. 547 Bubric] continuacjo librorwm. 547 superne. 559 vnto. 
 552 sauyng. 554 Vnder. 
 
 Book XII. 
 
 p. 207. Title] NOVEMBER. 1 In left margin above rubric: 
 Pri'mum ca™. Bubric] fabe. lenticwle. 3 vpon. 5 vnto. 6 loueth. 8 
 (fol. 109.) Title] November. 9 summen. satioun. 11 do. occa- 
 cioun. 12 germinacioun. 13 wel. 18 ancre. P. 208. 23 repercusse. 
 26 saue. ther. 29 In right margin: Secundum ca™. 31 provyne. 
 32 vmbydeluyng. 34 curuature. 36 (fol. 109a.) Bubric] veteri. iugo. 
 percula repanda. In left margin opposite rubric: iij ca"". 39 
 truncke. 42 thrive. 45 places. 44 Thi. 47 iointe. P. 209. 50 Bubric] 
 vitibMS. arborib2<s. In left margin opposite rubric: iiij ca"". 55 saue. 
 56 profluent. 57 vnkept. 58 vntil. 61 euery. 62 Salutyng] gl, vel 
 louting tort. Catchword The olyve. 64 (fol. 110.) Title] November. In 
 left margin: v ca. 65 wot] wol. In right margin; 97; e, f, g. 69 bas- 
 kettes corbes fyne. 71 Bubric : D allio, vlpico, cepM?is & plantis car- 
 duorwm. In right margin: vj ca. vlpike. 72 dolven. 73 Mak reedes. 
 
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 74 toppe] coppe. 76_ wex f. P. 210. 78 luce. 80 vppe. 82 tha. 84 
 let. 85 Bubric] persico. prwnis. lanyveer. In right margin: vij. ca. 
 86 pastyne. 90 pioohe. 9a ffol. 110a.) 102 delue. 103 yeer. P. 211. 
 J06 hervest. 108 euerie. thing. 110 vppo. 118 In right margin: 
 Cinabarum fit ex sulphure & argento vino. 120 (fol. 111.) both. 125 doone. 
 126 saue. heete. 130 viirest. P. 212. 145 cours. 146 mylk«. 148 
 (fol. lUa.) Vpon. 149 vntik. 152 lande. 154 stocke. 156 Almaundtteo. 
 159 fertilite. P. 213. 162 enoculaciouw. 164 occupacioure. 165 and of. 
 noo. 170 haue. 173 avel goou. 174 omit (coact?) 176 (fol. 112.) 177 
 commodious, thus] this. 178 curnels. 182 atte. 184 me.y. P. 214.. 
 191 translaciouw. 198 procuraciouw. 194 Vnto. multiplicacioun. 196 
 vnder. vp. 198 faster. 200 delues. 204 (fol. 112a.) 205 vnto. 207 
 Putacioun. 210 vntil. 211 But] Yit. 213 summen. 217 vp. P. 215, 
 218 vptake. 222 ioyfulliohe. 224 cold. 229 vp. 230 seke] gl. querende. 
 282 (fol. 113.) 233 vryne. 234 vrvne. vnevenly. 242 Ydoluen. 
 P. 21G. 246 male. 251 vppe. 253 vppe. 254 Vpgrowe. 257 ffresshe. 
 260 (fol. 118a.) 262 xxxti. 267 sekir. 268 Sunime. 269 vp. 272 Blak. 
 is] it. lend. 273 rapte] gl. confractus. P. 217. 274 vnneth. 275 noo 
 thing, vso. 27« Ner. 279 septentrioun. 285 vppe. 286 euerie. 
 287 h[e]m. 288 (fol. 114.) 294 chasten, inorementacion. 300 fleikes. 
 P. 218. 303 delueth. 304 saue. 308 saue. 309 omit (drie). 310 
 grafted. 311 Citur and Qvynce. 312 Meddeler. 314 Almaundes. lug- 
 lande. 316 (fol. ]14a.) In left margin opposite ruhric: viij cam. 317 
 Tseth. 326 euery cheue. 328 suche. 329 &. P. 219. 330 Huhric] 
 luxMriant. In left margin opposite rubric: ix cam. 332 fecounde. 333 
 ft'everyere. 388 stocke. 339 vryne. 341 moolde. (343 Here 183 verses are 
 missing, the number of the next line is 536.) 526 browsty] gl. rancido 
 resolue. 528 dissolue. 529 wried] cleyed. 531 iohe. P. 220. 536 after. 
 (o'69 Here are 1.3 verses entirely missing, and two partly so.) 550 fletyng se. 
 551 in vaporosite. 552 Of bathes oon nyght be on fleyke or table. 553 
 And so Amorwe salted thai beth able. [Next line is 554.) 555 barm. 
 556 after. 558 &. 559 sharppe. Aisel. 561 passe] gl. passi. a] no 
 gloss, yespon] gl. q. m. u. caperre p. 562 cyner] gl. cineris. wyne. 
 565 vnhurt. 
 
 Ths last i3 lines of book XII and the whole of Booh XIII are 
 missing from this MS. 
 
 20 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 P. 12. Tabula, 365: for ranys read rauys. 
 
 P. 13. Tabula, 411: for fair read far, and add in foot-note: B. far. 
 P. 20. Prohemium, 49: set comma instead of end-stop after beste. 
 P. 28. Bk. I, V. 115: for graffe read sette with B. 
 
 V. 116: for lond read kynde with B. 
 
 V. 130: foi- ynough read enowe with B. 
 P. 32. V. 247: remove comma after fyue. 
 
 P. 43. Note to V. 534: Instead of andr read (r. 
 
 P. 48. T. 697: set end-stop instead of comma after thre. 
 
 P. 54. T. 843: set end-stop instead of comma after sikirly. 
 
 V. 844: delete end-stop after blood. 
 P. 56. gloss 21: read agresti instead of argesti. 
 
 P. 62. V. 1068: delete comma after hem. 
 
 P. 81. Bk. II, V. 352: instead of end-stop after sette place semicolon. 
 P. 86. Note to V. 477: for alove read above. 
 
 PP.93, 103, 105, 111. Folio numbers should be placed in inargin as follows: 
 
 (fol. 47.) opposite v. 168. 
 
 (fol. 52a.) , V. 477. 
 
 (fol. 53.1 „ V. 504. 
 
 (fol. 53a.) „ V. 533. 
 
 (fol. 56a.) „ V. 700. 
 P. 122. V. 1068: place end-stop instead of comma at end of verse. 
 
 Note to V. 1071: read herbes instead of erbes. 
 P. 145. Bk. IV, V. 503: place end-stop instead of comma after drought. 
 P. 177. Bk. VI. V. 218: place comma instead of end-stop after vnclose. 
 P. 180. Bk. VII, V. 38: delete comma after bakward. 
 P. 181. T. 53: the gloss over ficches viz. viciam, has been omitted. 
 
 P. 183. vv. 122, 123: place comma a/<er signiflcacion and end-stop 
 
 after summe. 
 P. 202. Bk. IX, V. 190: read The instead of Te. 
 P. 242. Bk. XII, V. 274: read rubrike instead of rubrik. 
 P. 286. Correction to P. 180, v. 47: for edum read Cedwn. 
 P. 287. Correction to P. 187, v. 1: read canterino. 
 
 V. 11: read Sysane. 
 V. 15: read Secimiuva. 
 Correction to P. 190, v. 89: read olde. 
 P. 288. Correction to P. 207: Title] read NOVEMBJJR. 
 
 , V. 11: read occacioun. 
 V. 12: read germinaciou». 
 
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