In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Thomas Tusser More Quotes by Thomas Tusser More Quotes From Thomas Tusser At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser xmas christmas cheer Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. Thomas Tusser flower spring sweet Sing hey! Sing hey! Thomas Tusser merry-christmas cheer winter Seek home for rest, for home is best. Thomas Tusser new-home home Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. Thomas Tusser borrowed-money borrowing debt February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like. Thomas Tusser dykes february A fool and his money be soon at debate Thomas Tusser debate fool God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. Thomas Tusser meat mouths Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. Thomas Tusser good-husband agriculture gold Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. Thomas Tusser magistrates fear-god law Except wind stands as it never stood Thomas Tusser turns ill wind Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay. Thomas Tusser credit gay pay As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad. Thomas Tusser errors quiet order What a greater crime. Than loss of time. Thomas Tusser crime greater loss 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 yards garden lying Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm. Thomas Tusser harvest dry august Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. Thomas Tusser leap foresight looks 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. Thomas Tusser sea giving long Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand; Thomas Tusser june running hands In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. Thomas Tusser cutting morning night
