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
christmas xmas cheer
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
owing-a-debt borrowed-money borrowing
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
meat mouths
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.
agriculture gold good-husband
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
looks leap foresight
Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
time trying
Time tries the troth in everything.
peace integrity patriotic
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
cow except forth ill none spring stands trees true turns wind yield
Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,/ And trees at spring do yield forth bud,/ Except wind stands as never it stood,/ It is an ill wind turns none to good.