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A61490	The twelve moneths, or, A pleasant and profitable discourse of every action, whether of labour or recreation, proper to each particular moneth branched into directions relating to husbandry, as plowing, sowing, gardening, planting, transplanting ... as also, of recreations as hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, coursing, cockfighting : to which likewise is added a necessary advice touching physick ... : lastly, every moneth is shut up with an epigrame : with the fairs of every month / by M. Stevenson.	Stevenson, Matthew, d. 1684.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5510; ESTC R24625	35,911	65

all thy pearly drops of morning Dew When we dispair thy seasonable showers Comfort the Corne and chear the drooping Flowers As if thy Charity could not but impart A shower of Tears to see us out of heart Sweet I have pen'd thy praise and here I bring it In confidence the Birds themselves will sing it Majus 31 Dayes MAY. NOw comes that merry May-day so long expected hoped and prayed for of the Fodder-scan●ed Farmer for now ●hall his almost famish'd Beasts break up their tedious Lent now is his mouth full of thanks and theirs full of grass his h●art full of joy and their bellies full of food Now gentle Zephyrus fans the sweet Buds and dripping Clouds water fair Flor●● great Garden the Sun-beams bring forth fair Blossoms and the perfumed Ayre refresheth every spirit the Flowry Queen now brings forth her Wardrobe and richly Embroydereth her green Apron The Nymphs of the Woods in consort with the Muses sing an Ave to the Morning and a Vale to the Evening The male Deer puts out the velvet head and the pagged Doe is near her Fawning The Sparhawk now is drawn out of the Mew and the Fowler makes ready his Whistle for the Quail the Lark sets the Morning Watch and the Nightingale the Evening The beautified Barges keep the Streams of 〈◊〉 ●weet Rivers like so many pleasant Bowers whilst the dappled Mackarel with the shade of a Cloud is taken prisoner in the Ocean The tall young Oak is cut down for a May-pole and the frolick Fry of the Town prevent the rising Sun and with joy in their faces and boughs in their hands they march before it to the place of Erection and if any kind Sweet-heart left her Maidenhead in a Bush she has good luck if she finde it again next may-May-day The Sythe and the Sick●e are the Mowers furniture and a moneth of fair Weather makes the Labourer merry The Physitian now prescribes the cold Whey to his Patient and the Apothecary gathers the Chrystal Dewy Drops for a Medicine Butter and Sage are now the wholsome Breakfast but fresh Cheese and Cream are meat for a dainty mouth the early Peascods and Strawberries want no price with great Bellies but the Chicken and the Duck are fatted for the Market the sucking Rabbet is frequently taken in the Nest and many a Gosling never lives to be a Goose. In a word it is the moneth wherein Nature hath her full of mirth and the Senses are stored with delights It is therefore from the Heavens a grace and to the Earth a gladness I hold it a sweet and delicate Season the Variety of Pleasures and the Paradice of Love In the moneth of May sow Barley upon all light sands and burning grounds so likewise order your Hemp or Flax and also all sorts of tender Garden Seeds as are Cucumbers and Melons and all kinde of sweet smelling Herbs and Flowers Fallow your stiff Clayes Summer-stir your mixt earth and Soil all loose hot sands prepare all barren earth for Wheat and Rye Burn Bait Stub Gorse and Furres and Root out Broom and Fern Begin to Fold your Sheep lead forth Manure and bring home Fewel and Fencing Weed your Winter Corn follow your common Works and put all sorts of Grass either in Pasture or Teather You may this moneth also put your Mares to Horse let nothing be wanting to furnish the Dayrie and now look and Pot up your Butter true it is you may if you please Pot it up at any time betwixt May and September observing to do it in the coolest time of the morning yet the most principal season of all is in this moneth of May so now the Ayr is most temperate and the Butter will take Salt the best and be the least subject to reesting If during the moneth of May before you Salt your Butter you save a Lump thereof and put it into an earthen pan and so expose it to the Sun during the whole moneth you shall finde it exceeding soveraigne and medicinable for wounds strains aches and such like grievances Now put off all your winter-fed-Cattel for now they are scarcest and dearest Put young Stiers and dry Kine now to feed at fresh Grass and away with all Pease-fed Sheep ●or the sweetness of G●as-Mutton will pull down their prizes You may weed your Gardens and watch your Bees which now call upon your care and so I shall conclude with the old P●overb Set Sage in May and it will grow alway Now you that set any price by your healths rise early in the morning for May does not love any sluggards Let such as be in health and able walk into the Fields and eat and drink betimes for it is good and wholsome Abstain from all meats that be of a hot nature and for such as be sick it is a very good time to let blood or to take Physick for such as be whole God keep them in health and let them use Drinks that will cool and purge the Blood and all other such Physical preventions as Art and Observation shall direct them for such as be sick God send them good Physick and learned Physitians but above all things beware of Mountebanks and old Wives tales the one hath no Ground and the other no Truth but are both nothing but senseless babble and apparent cousenage If you take delight in Angling I shall here suit your Baits and Fi●h to the moneth that with the more ease you may follow your Recreation and therefore know in the first place If you angle for the Carp you must have a strong Rod and Line of at least seven or nine hairs mixed either with green or watchet silk your Cork long large and smooth your Lead smooth and close and fixed neer the Hook and the Hook almost of a three-peny compass he is very dainty to bite but at some special hours as very early in the morning or very late at night and therefore he must be very much enticed with Paste His best baits are the Moss-worm the Red-worm or the Menew for he seldome refuseth them the Endis-worm is good for him next moneth Let your Paste be of sour Ale white of Egges and Bread-crums this much entiseth him If you will Angle for the Chub Chevern or Trout all your Instruments must be strong and good your Rod dark and discoloured your Line strong and short and small too your Hook of a two-penny compass and if you angle with a Fly then nor Lead nor Cork nor Quill if otherwise then all of an handsome and sutable proportion Thus much for present I shall give you a further accompt in the next The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of May. THe first day at And●ver Brickhil● Blackburn in Lancashire Chelmsford Congerton in Cheshire Fockingham Grighowel Kimar in Leighton Leicester Lichfield if not Sunday Lexfield in Suffolk Linfield Llatrissent Louth Maidstone Ocestre in Shropshire Perin Philips Norton Pombridge Reading Rippon

plant or transplant all manner of fruit-trees as Apples Peares Plums Cherries Filbert Walnut The fittest time of setting all manner of Plants or Quicksets the weather open and the ground easie is from the change to the first Quarter You may now geld such Cattle as ye intend the state of the Moon alwayes considered and such as are sick or weak ye may drench Kine with Verjuice and London-Triacle and Horses with your common Mashes of water and ground Malt and a little Bran. The time is good to reare Calves and remove Bees Now for the recreations of this Month they are within or without doores within as it relates to Christmasse it shares the chearfull carrolls of the wassell cup Beasts Fowls and Fish come to a generall Execution and Hecatombs are sacrificed to cold weather and Cards and Dice purge many a purse and the ventrous youth shew their agility in shooing the Wild-Mare The Lord of misrule is no meane man for his time a good fire heats all the house and a full Alms-basket sets the beggar to his prayers Masking and Mumming and choosing King and Queen the meeting of the friendly and the mirth of the honest For out door Recreations Now does the early Hunts-man prevent the Sun-rise and watches the Stag to his Leire which this month he expects in the Corne fields of wheat and Rye and having lodg'd him home he comes for his Horne and his deep mouth'd Quire now are the pampered Pransers trampling the Plaines as greedy of sport as their Masters Now are the finders cast off and after a ring or two about in goe the full mouth'd chorus and now the Hunts-man comforts the Hounds with his Horn and the sight of the Stagg Now the Horses try their heels and the Riders their throats whilst the empty Woods Eccho the thunder with a double resound The horses sweat the Hunts-man frets and the Stag is imbost the next and last refuge is a sett or a Soyle then comes the death of the Deere and the Talbot supples his Tongue and his Master his hands with the reeking blood Now the Woodcock and the Pheasant pay their lives for their feed and the Hare after a Course makes his Hearse in a Pye The Oxe and the fat Weather now furnish the Market and the poor Coney is so ferrited that she cannot keep in her Burrough The Curryer and the Lime-Rod are the death of the Fowle and a long Peece and a good water Spaniel are no bad company The Faulcons Bells ring the Mallards knell and the Hare and the Hound put the Huntsman to the horne The barren Doe subscribes to the dish and the smallest seed makes sawce for the greatest flesh but the shoulder of an hog is a shooing horne for good drink The Maid is stirring betimes and slipping on her shooes and her Petticoat groaps for the tinder box where after a conflict between the steele and the stone she begets a spark at last the Candle lights on his March then upon an old rotten foundation of broaken boards she erects an artificiall fabrick of the black Bowels of New-Castle soyle to which she sets fire with as much confidence as the Romans to their Funerall Pyles the comfortable light whereof is the good fellows Cynosure and becomes more magnetick then the Loadstone for there he stayes till like the fly he scorches himself in the flame which like that strange Lightning melts the Blade in the Scabberd I mean the plate in his Pocket whilst he is making his offering to Ceres and Bacchus To conclude this Month is the rich mans charge and the poor mans misery The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of Ianuary The 3 day at Llanibither the 5 at Hicketford in Lancashire the 6 being Twelf day at Salisbury at Bristow the 7 day at Llanginny the 25. day at Bristol at Churchingford at Gravesend the 31. at Llandyssel Reader I have describ'd this Month to you And what you ought and what you ought not doe If you my counsell follow much good doe ye If you neglect it I say nothing to ye I tell you what this or that writer saith Yet on their sleeves I will not pin your faith I write of work and recreation too Which you will follow that I leave to you Thus not to flatter I have taken paines That if you will not I may have the gaines Februarius 28 days FEBRUARY NOw is the aspiring Sun got a Cock-stride of his climbing and the humble Valleyes are covered with a Rug of snow whilst the lofty Mountaines obvious to every blast are nipt to the heart with a cold Neptune hath glazed his wavy Court and left not ●o much as a Casement for his scaly subjects and finny friends to look out at who are therefore gone downe to his Cellars to carouze it to the Sun that Ambassadour of Heaven that ere long will dissolve their icy fetters and pay his golden beames for their ransome The Frog goes to seek out the Paddock and the Crow and the Rook mislike their old Mates The Usurer now is lapt in his furres and the poor makes his breath a fire to his fingers ends Beauty is maskt for feare of the Aire and the flea hath his subterfuge in the wool of a blanket Cards and Dice have scarce yet got their Harvest in and Sack and good Ale are the cause of civill Warres Muscovia Commodities are now in much request and down beds and quilted Caps are in the pride of their service whilst the Cook and 〈◊〉 Pantler are men of no meane office An apple and a nutmeg make a merry Gossips feast and the Ale and the Faggot are the Victuallers merchandise The delay of Law-suits is the death of hope and a cold almes mak●s the beggar shrug The terme travellers makes the Shoo-makers Harvest and the Chaundle●s Cheese makes the Chalk walk apace The Fishmonger sorts his water-work for Lent and beats the poor Stock-fish for his stubbo●nness whilst the Herring domineers as a Lord of great Service and though but yestarday a sorry Jack-sprat he calls himself King of Fishes The fruit of the Dairy makes a hungry Feast whilst fasting and mourning is the Life of the poor and the Dogs are grown leane fo● want of bones and make good Album Graecum a sca●ce Commodity The Beasts of the forrest have a bare feed and the hard Crufts try the beggars teeth The barefooted Colt hath a ragged coat and the half mewed h●ad ●isgraceth the Deere The Shepheard hath but little pleasure in hi● pipe and the Souldier finds cold comfort in the sconce Penury pinches the Prisoners heart and the deep fallowes weary the Hunts-man The Fisherman is now the Raker of the Sea and every day sacrifices to his ow● Net The Aire is sharp and piercing and the winds blow cold the Tavernes and the Inns seldome lack guests and the Ostler knowes how to make p●ofit of his hay The hunting Horse is at the heels of

the Hound whilst the ambling Nag carryes the Physitian and his foot cloth The blood of youth begins to spring and the sap to rise up out of the Root Physick hath now work among weak bodies and he looks well to himself that catches not an Ague before the end of this Month there is nothing pleasing but hope that the dayes will lengthen and time be more comfortable And for the small pleasure that I find in it I will thus briefly conclude of it It is the poor mans pick-purse and the miser's Cut-throat the enemy of pleasure and the exercise of patience In this Month eschew all such things as oppilate and stop the Liver and Veines or doe thicken the blood of which kind are Milk and Rice and slimy fish and yet also forbear medling with Physick or blood-letting except necessity doth urge and the Learned advise you I gave you a hint of an Ague before and if you have a mind to one catch cold and I will warrant you the other Now methinks I see 〈◊〉 Husbandman dresse afresh his rusty Plowshare to teare up the stiffer clay grounds and the Gardener sending his Seeds their severall beds and the Garden mould is made a Grave for the Beanes and the Pease The fliffer colder the ground is begin so much the sooner to Plow Prune trim your fruit Trees cleanse them from mosse and Cankers and from super●luous Branches as in Ianuary The best time of grafting from the time of removing your stock is the next Spring for that saves a second wound and a repulse of Sap if your Stock be of sufficient bignesse to take a graffe from as bigge as your thumb to as big as a mans arme you may graffe less which I like and bigger which I like not so well The best time of the yeare is in the last part of February or March and the beginning of April when the Sun with his heat begins to make the sap stir more rankly about the change of the Moon before you see any great appearance of leafe or flowers but only knots and buds and before they be proved though it be sooner Cherries Pears Apricock● Quinces and Plums would be gathered and grafted sooner in February Forward Conyes begin now to kindle and the fat grounds are not without Lambs and it is now a good time for Ewes to bring forth that their Lambs may be strong and able before May day to follow their Damms over the rough fallow Lands and deep water furrowes which weak and feeble Lambs are not able to do and although you yean thus early in the winter when there is little or no grasse springing and the sharpnesse of the weather also be dangerous yet the Husbandman must provide sweet fodder and convenient shelter and the Shepheard must bestirre himself and be vigilant to prevent all incident evills and inconveniences and though the Ewe at the first be somewhat scarce of milk yet as the warme weather encreaseth and the grasse beginneth to spring so will her Milk spring also Now does the stood over-run his banks and imitates the Ocean and the gaping Oyster leaves his shell in the streets while the house topping Peacock is pie-bakt for his Pride Now runs the poor Hare for neither Pins nor poynts but her life and like that Senatour of Rome is followed and found out by her scent to the losse of her life and unequall Fate she must run for 't or with Cocles duel an Army All the night when her eyes should be shut she is forced to open her mouth in natures behalfe and all the day she sets melan●●●●● in a Bush her open eyes are her Watch-Towers and 〈…〉 her Centinels alwayes expecting an alarme from the enemy who too too often call her out and make her lead them a dance but at last their deep notes are her knell and the Huntsmans Womb is her Tomb as at fairest after a Course she makes her hearse in a Pye Thus ends this eager pursuit after many doublings and windings squattings and other shifts and sleights and where is all the spoyle but a pint of butter to a Kennel of Hounds neverthelesse though little she is not without profit and worth the having Her flesh first is good for all manner of Fluxes her Brains good to make children breed their teeth with ease her Wool excellent to stanch blood her Gall soveraigne for the eyes her blood to kill Rheume and Wormes her stiffling bone being worne takes away the paine of the Crampe with many other good things beside and I beleeve her Furre-gown would doe no hurt to the knees that labour of a cold gout especially in this cold moyst and raw Month of February The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of February THe 1 day at Bromely in Lancashire the 2 day at Bath at Bicklesworth at Bugworth at Farringdon at Codlemew at Lin at Maidstone at Reading at Becklesfield at the Vizes in Wiltshire at Whiteland the 3 day at Boxgrove at Brimley the 6 day at Stafford for 5 dayes with all kind of Merchandise without arrest the 8 day at Tragarron the 9 day at Landasse the 14 at Owndlee in Northamptonshire at Feversham the 24 at Baldoc Bourn Froom Henley upon Thames Highamserries Tewksbury Vppingham Walden the 26 at Stanford an Horse Fair. My Web is woven how ye like my task That is the thing that I shall never ask If ye applaud or l●ugh at him that pen'd it All 's one to me 〈◊〉 ●isse your Muse and mend it I play all Parts and Virgil-like appear A Shepheard Plowman and a Cavalier Yet labour still in a Laconick stile As Carr-men drive and whistle all the while Thus end my Lines my Lines did I these call My Packthread rather that must wind up all 31 Dayes Marsius MARCH IT is now March and the Northerne Wind dryes up the Southerne dirt the tender lips are now maskt for fear of chopping and Pomatum is the Chamber-Maids lip-salve for the wounds of the wind The soft and delicate hands must not be ungloved but the good Huswife hasts to the open fields and bleaches her linnen with the breath of Aeolus which in dirty December had gotten the yellow Jaundies and this is the only time to purge them The Sun is now risen a pretty step to his faire height and Saint Valentine calls the Birds together where Nature is pleased with the variety of love and the little winged Familists make election of their Mates for building and keeping of house this Spring The Fishes and the Frogs fall to their manner of Generation leaving the spawn floating upon the face of the Brooks and the Adder dyes to bring forth her unnaturall frye Now the Brewer is 〈◊〉 to store the Cellars with March Beer which brewed in thi● 〈◊〉 keeps excellently well and hath the honour to be called 〈◊〉 ●he Air is sharp but the Sun is comfortable and cherisheth the Banks with 〈◊〉 Beame whilst the

The careful Client has his Harvest done A●d now the Lawyer 's reaping is begun Arms yeild to Arts I see the Gown-man stands Exacting Tribute at the Plowmans hands And somwhat still of Reason here appears The Lawyer speaks and Tongue will chalenge Ears OCTOBER NOw followes the merry-goe-sorrow of the blythe and bleak Month of October The Coaches rattle through the Street and the Ladyes Ride in their Boots while the finicall City Geese goe on Patterns Muffing and Cuffing are now in request and he that will goe to Billinsgate fort may have a Cuff on the ear It is now not amisse to play at Hot-cockles hot unlesse Coals be the cheaper The little Tom-Tit-mouse makes his Cell in a hollow Tree and the black-bird sets close in the bottome of a hedge for fear an ill wind should blow him no good The forward Deere begin to goe to ru● and the barren Doe is not out of season The Basket-makers now gather their rods and Fishermen lay their Nets in the deeps The lofty winds are the Hogs Caterer and the falling of the Aco●ns is the rising of their flesh and puts them quite out of mind of Pearle The Load horses goe apace to the Mill and the Corn is in the flower puddings and Pancakes are meat for the Lads and Pyes are the delight of the Lasses The Hare on the hill makes the Greyhound a faire course and the loosing of labour is the saving of life The Fox just unkenneld makes the Huntsmen laugh and the Hounds cry The scarcity of people makes a plenty of Wares but a smooth and soft tongue vents many a hard bargaine The Marriner now bestirreth his stumps while the Merchant liveth in feare of the weather The Cooks are preparing the great feasts for the City but the poor must not beg for fear of the Stocks A good fire and a paire of Cards keep the guesse in the Ordinary and the smoak of Tobacco is precious and held soveraigne for Catatths and troublesome Rheums The Shuttle-cock and Battledore is a good house exercise and occupies the Lady before she be drest Tennis and Baloon are sports of some charge and a quick bandy is the Court keeps Commodity Dancing and Fencing are now in some use and true Lovers lye close to keep off the cold To be short for the little pleasure I find of October I thus conclude of it I hold it a Messenger of ill news and a second service to a cold dinner Autumnes North-Nuntio to Winters well-a-day Farewell but not frost Days 31 October In the Month of October finish all your wheat seed and scower all your ditches and ponds Plash and lay your Hedges and Quicksets plant or transplant all manner of fruit Trees of what nature or quality soever Make your Winter Cidar and Perry You may spare your private pastures and feed up your Co●n fields and Commons and now make an end of winter-ridging draw furrowes to draine and keep dry your new sown Corne. Reare all those Calves that you mean shall fall and weane those Foales from your draught Mares which the Spring before were foaled Now sell all such Sheep as you will not Winter give over your Foaling and separate the Lambs from the Ewes which you purpose to keep for your own stock and follow hard the making of your Malt not forgetting the Proverb that Soft Fire makes sweet Malt. Nor shall I here think it amisse no● you I hope tedious if I insert a few directions to the young and unexperienced touching the drying and cleansing your Malt. Dry it with a gentle and soft fire ever and anon turning it is it dryeth on the Kilne over and over with your hand till you find it sufficiently well dryed Now as soon as you see the Corne begin to shed you shall in the turning the Malt rub it well between your hands and scowre it to make the Come fall away then finding it all sufficiently dryed first put out your Fire then let the Malt dryed coole upon the Kilne for four or five hours at lest then raising up the foure corners of the hair cloath and gathering the Malt together on a heap empty it with the Come and all into your Garner and there let it lye if you have not occasion to use it for a month or two or three to ripen but no longer for as the Come or dust of the Kilne for such a space melloweth and ripeneth the Malt making it better both for sale or expence so to lye too long doth engender weevell wormes and Vermine which doe destroy the graine Now for the dressing and cleansing of Malt at such time as it is either to be spent in the house or sold in the Market you shall first winnow it with a good wind either from the Aire or the Fanner and before the winnowing you shall rub it exceeding well between your hands to get the Come or sproutings cleane away for the beauty and goodnesse of Malt is when it is smug cleane bright and likest to Barley in the view for then there is least wast and greatest profit for Come and dust drinketh up the liquor and gives an ill tast to the drink After it is well rub'd and winnowed you shall then Ree it over in a fine sieve and if any of the Malt be uncleansed then rub it againe into the sieve till it be pure and the rubbings will rise on the top of the sieve which you may cast off at pleasure and both those rubbings from the sieve and the chaffe and dust which cometh from the winnowing should be safe kept for they are very good swines meat and feed well mixt with whey or swillings and thus after the Malt is well Ree'd you shall either sack it up for especiall use or put it into a well cleansed Garner where it may lye till there be occasion for expense and thus much I think sufficient to speak of Malt. Now to your health As for what concerns your health take my counsell refuse not any needfull physick if you be advised thereunto by your skilfull Physitian If occasion serve use warme baths get good hot meat and drink and good and wholsome wines to nourish good blood Keep your feet dry and warme and beware of taking cold for quartane Agues are gotten this Month and gotten rid of God knows when Use all moderate Recreations for any thing is good which by stirring and warming the bloud reviveth the spirits They say if leaves now hang on the Tree it portends a cold Winter or many Caterpillars The Names of the Principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of October THe 1 day at Banbury Caster the 2 at Salisbury the 3 at Boultonmoors the 4 at S. Michaels the 6 at Hevent Hamsh Maidstone in Kent the 8 at Bishopstratford Chichester Hereford Llanibither Ponstephen Swansey the 9 at Ashburupeak Blyth in nor Devizes Gainsborough Harborough Sabridgeworth Thorockgroyes the 12 at Boulton farnac Llangoveth the 13 at Aberstow Charing