Thomas Tusser
Thomas Tusser
Thomas Tusserwas an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, an expanded version of his original title, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, first published in 1557...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
lying garden may
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.
morning night delight
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
order errors quiet
As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
gay pay credit
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
agriculture debt prison
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
agriculture gold good-husband
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
august dry harvest
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
money italian taxation
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
sea giving sick
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.
loss innovation stones
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.
looks leap foresight
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
wind ill turns
Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.
medicine sauce hunger
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
loss crime greater
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.