Thomas Tusser Quotes - Page 2

• If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.

  Thomas Tusser

  Lying, Garden, Yards

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

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

  Thomas Tusser

  Agriculture, Debt, Prison

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

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

  Thomas Tusser

  Years, Shining, Age

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• Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sadness, Misery, Borrowing

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