For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly! At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
