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
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.
time trying
Time tries the troth in everything.
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.