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
few lend
Who goeth a borrowing/ Goeth a sorrowing./ Few lend (but fools)/ Their working tools.
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.
medicine sauce hunger
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
agriculture gold good-husband
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
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.
agriculture debt prison
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
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.
gay pay credit
Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.
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.
sadness misery borrowing
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.