“In Maie get a weede hooke, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weedes as the corne doth not love. Slack never they weeding, for dearth nor for cheape, The corne shall reward it er ever ye reape. [Found in Helen Nearing, ‘Wise Words on the Good Life’, 1980.” Hard WorkRewardsSimplicityGood LifeReapWeedsHusbandryWeedingHelen NearingThomas Tusser Book:Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie Volume 21 Source: Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie Volume 21
“In Maie get a weede hooke, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weedes as the corne doth not love. Slack never thy weeding, for dearth nor for cheape, The corne shall reward it er ever ye reape. [Thomas Tusser, ‘Five hundred points of husbandry: directing what corn, grass, is proper to be sown: what trees to be planted: how land is to be improved: with with whatever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year’ (1557).]” Hard WorkRewardsSimplicityGood LifeReapWeedsHusbandryWeedingHelen NearingThomas Tusser Book:Wise Words for the Good Life Source: Wise Words for the Good Life