 | Thomas Tusser, William Fordyce Mavor - Agriculture - 1812 - 430 pages
...labour, is fit to be had. Leicestershire. PLOUGH MONDAY'. 2. Plough Monday, next after that Twelfthtide is past, Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last : If ploughman get hatchet, or whip to the screen, Maids loseth their cock, if no water be seen. VARIATION.... | |
 | Thomas Tusser - Agriculture - 1812 - 426 pages
...comfort with labour, is fit to be had. PLOUGH MONDAY'. 2. Plough Monday, next after that Twelfthtide is past, Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last : Leicestershire. If ploughman get hatchet, or whip to the screen, Maids losrlh their cock, if no water... | |
 | James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 430 pages
...For comfort, with labour, is fit to be had. Plough Monday* Plough Monday, next after that Twelfthtide is past, Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last, If ploughman get hatchet, or whip to the screen, Maids loseth their cock, if no water be seen, Shrovetide.^... | |
 | Roger Wilbraham - English language - 1826 - 130 pages
...farm-houses in Cheshire. So in Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, we read, " If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the Skreene, Maids loseth their cocke if no water be seen." Note in Tusser redivivus. — "If the ploughman can get his whip, his plough-staff', hatchet, or any... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...period at which the ground is begun to be ploughed up. " Plough Monday next, after that the twelfth tide is past, Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last." Tasttr. In celebration of this agricultural commencement, in the north of England, the Fool Plough... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1831 - 478 pages
...mourner, to a better day !" C. Lloyd. 10. PLOUGH MONDAY. Plough Munday, next after that Twelfth-tide is past, Bids out with the Plough ; the worst husband is last : If Ploughman get hatchet, or whip to the screene, Maids loseth their Cocke if no water be seene. Tusser's... | |
 | Roger Wilbraham - English language - 1836 - 132 pages
...farm-houses in Cheshire. So in Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, we read, " If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the Skreene, Maids loseth their cocke if no water be seen." Note in Tusser redivivus.—" If the ploughman can get his whip, his plough-staff, hatchet, or any... | |
 | Roger Wilbraham (of Cheshire.) - 1836 - 128 pages
...farm-houses in Cheshire. So in Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, we read, " If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the Skreene, Maids loseth their cocke if no water be seen." Note in Tusser redivivus. — " If the ploughman can get his whip, his plough-staff, hatchet, or any... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...and be glad, for comfort with labour, is fit to be had." He then adds, - Plough-Munday, next alter s, which sometimes are polled, sometimes curled, or...grow at length like woman's lockcs, manie times cut skrcene, maids loveth their cocke, if no water be seene." These lines allude to a custom prevalent... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 954 pages
...Christmas that the husbandmen resumed the plough. " Plough Monday next, after that the twelfth tide is past, Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last." Tuner. Pcenalis Ebdomada, or Hebdomada. See Hebdómada Pœnalis, Semaine Pénente. POLICARNÜS §•... | |
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Plough Munday, next after that Twelf-tide is past, Bids out with the plough ; the worst husband is last : If Plowman get hatchet, or whip to the skrene, Maids loseth their cocke, if no water be seen :" which are thus explained in Tusser Redivivus, 1744,... 
