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 (c. 1524 - 1580)
Source: 1557
Contributed by: Zaady
In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.
Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man.
Source: A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557, April's Abstract
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
Source: A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557, The Farmer’s Daily Diet
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all.
Source: A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557, August's Abstract
Naught venture, naught have.
Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers.
Source: A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557, April's Husbandry
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools.
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