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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

good in April the red Fly and yellow Fly in May the black Fly the dark yellow Fly and the moorish Fly in Iune the wasp Fly and the shell Fly in Iuly and the cloudy dark Fly in August and lastly the tawny Fly part in May and part in Iune You must understand that these Flies are as well Artificial as Natural but to shew you that will be the work of the next sheet The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of Iune THe third day at Alesbury The 9. at Maidstone The 11. at Holt Kinwilgate in Caermarthen Llanybither Llanwist Llandilanador in Caermarthen Maxfield Newborough Newcastle in Emling Okingham Wellington Newport pannel Skipton upon Stow Stremel in Norfolk The 13. at Newtown in Kedewen in Montgomery The 14. at Bangor The 15. at Vizes Pershore from Worcester 7. miles The 16. at Bealth in Brecknock Newport in Reams The 17. at Hadstock Highamferries Lla●villing Stowgreen The 19. at Bridgenorth The 21. at Ystaadmerick The 22. at S. Albones Shrewsbury Derham in Norfolk The 23. at Barnet Castle Ebithenin Monmouth Dolgelly in Merioneth The 24. at Ashborn S. Annes Awkinbrough Bedford Bedle Beverley Bishops Castle Broughton-green Market Bosworth Brecnock Bromesgrove Cambridge Colchester Crambrook Croyden Farnham Gl●cester Hallifax Hartford Hartstone Horsham Hurst Kingston-war Kirkham-Aund Lancaster Leicester Lincoln Ludlow Pemsey Preston Reading Romford Shaftsbury Straitstock Tu●bridge Wakefield Wenlock Westchester Winfort Wormsters York The 26. at Northop The 27. at Burton Tent Folkstone Llangdogain The 28. at Hescorn Marchenlero at S. Pomnes The 29. at Ashwel Bala Barkamstead Bennington Bibalance Bolton Bromely Buckingham Buntingford Cardiffe Gorgan Hodesdon Holdworth Horndon Hudderfield Lower Knotsford Lempster Llamorgan Hanbeder Mansfield Marlborough Mountfort Mounstril Onay Peterborough Peterfield Ponstephen Sarstrange Sennock Southam Stafford Stockworth Thorockgrayes Tring Vpton Wem Westminster Witney Woolverhampton Woodhurst York The 30. at Maxfield in Cheshire I have presented Reader to thine Eye Eclogues and Georgicks Junes Oecunomy The Oaten Pipe the Sickle and the Sythe The Man that labours and the Boy that 's biythe The Faucon Partridge Hounds Hare Bucks Does Herbs Plants and Flowers the Lilly and the Rose Pismires and Bees their various industries Grashoppers Cankers Maggots Worms and Flyes Sun Moon and Stars and all the Elements Fire Ayre Earth Water These be the Contents Dayes 31 Iulius JULY IT is now Iuly and the Worlds great eye the Sun is mounted on the highest loft of the Horizon The grasse of the Mountaines withers and the parched earth would be glad of a draught of Raine to slake her thirst Now doth the Farmer make ready his Teame and the Carter with his whip hath no small pride in his whistle The Cannons of Heaven begin to rattle and when the fire is put to the Charge it breaketh out among the Clouds and the Stones of congealed water cut off the ears of the Corne. The Cuckoe spits and storms and the blacknesse of the Clouds affright the faint-hearted The Stag and the Buck are now in their Pride and their prime and the hardnesse of their Heads makes them fit for the Horner Now hath the Sparhawk the Partridge in the foot And the Ferret is tickling the Coney in the Burrough The Sparrows make a charme upon the green Bushes till the Fowler comes and take them by douzens The Lark leads her young out of the Nest for the Sythe and the Sickle will downe with the Grasse and the Corne. The old Partridge calls her Covey in the Morning and the Shepheard folds his flock in the Evening The Hedges are full of Berries the high wayes of Rogues and the lazy Limbs sleep out their dinner Malt is now above wheat with a number of mad people Pears and Plumbs now ripen apace and being of a crude watery substance are the cause of many diseases The Butler now hath the better of the Cook and a fine shirt is as comfortable as a freeze Jerkin The Pipe and the Tabor now follow the Markets and he that hath money gets many a good Penny-worth The Ant and the Bee are at work for their Winter provision and after a frost the Grassehopper is no more seen Milk Butter and Cheese are the labourers dyet and a pot of good Beer quickens his spirit If there be no plague the people are healthfull for continuance of motion is Natures preservative The fresh of the morning and the coole of the evening are the time the Court walks but the poor dusty Traveller treads out the whole day The Smelt is now in season and the Lamprey out of the River leaps into the Pye The Souldier now hath a hot March and the Lawyer sweats in his lined Gowne Don Pedro the Pedler hath a long walk and the dram of the bottle sets his face on a fire In a word this is a profitable season The Labourers gaine and the rich mans wealth Now Courteous Country man make Hay while the Sun shines for a day slackt is many pounds loft chiefly when the weather is unconstant sheare all manner of field Sheep and Summer-stir rich stiffe grounds soyle all mixt earths and latter soyle all loose hot sands Let Hearbs you would preserve now run to seed Cut off the stalks of outlandish Flowers and cover the Roots with new earth so well mixed with manure as may be Sell all ●uch Lambs as you feed for the Butcher and still lead forth sand marle Lime and other manure fence up your Copses graze your elder underwoods and bring home all your field Timber In this Month use cold Hearbs and coole dyet and abstaine from physick by reason of the intemperate heat of the weather The Rivers now are more wholsome and delightfull then the Baths Let the Sun be up before ye walk abroad in the time of contagious diseases as plagues or pestilence Keep your chamber windowes shut and open then only when the Sun shines with vigour be sure every morning to perfume your house well with Tarr and Angelica Seeds burnt in a fire-pan or chafing dish of coales then which nothing is better It is good to drink a draught of Beer in a morning fasting wherein Card●us Benedict●s hath been boyled or else when you walk out in the morning eat the quantity of a hasle Nut of Venice Triacle and old con●erve of Roses equally mixt it is as good an Antidote as you can take bleed not but upon necessity and have a care of over-heating your bloud and meddle neither with Bacchus nor Venus The Recreations and Country contentments more properly appertaining to this Month are Bathing and swimming in the coole and Christall Rivolets or shooting at Buts Pricks or Rivers And Bowling however tearmed like Cards and Dice unlawfull I am sure is an healthfull exercise and good for the body and hath been prescribed for a recreation to great persons by the Learned Physitians in which there is a great deale of art and judgment to be seen especially in the expert

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

first with a careful and well-judging eye to look upon your Corn and to know by the hanging downward of the Ear whether it be ripe or not for when it is so it will look as it were back again to the ground then to look into the cleanness of the Corn as whether it be full of greeness as grass weeds and such like or clean of it self without any mixture If you finde there be any weeds mixt with it then you may reap it so much the sooner though the kernel be not so well hardened as you could wish but having shorn it so full of weeds by no means sheaf it but spreading it thin in the Sun let the grass wither all the day which when you perceive to change colour and grow dry then binde it up in sheafs and let it lye single a day that the Wind and Sun may get into it and dry the greeness more sufficiently then lay it in shocks of six or eight sheafs a piece and in those shocks turn the Ears so inward that the other bigger ends may defend them from rain wet or dew that may fall upon them then a day or two after lay them in shocks of twenty or four and twenty sheafs a piece and in those shocks let them take a Sweat then b●eak them open in a bright Sun-shine day and let the Ayr pass thorow them to dry them fo●thwith lead the Grain home and either house or stack it and be sure when thus ordered and dryed it can never take hurt Now ye may make the second return of your fat Sheep and Cattel Gather all your greater Summer fruits Plumbs Apples and Pears make your Perry and Cyder set slips of all sorts of Gilly-flowers and Siens of other Flowers and transplant them that were set the Spring before and at the end of this moneth begin to winter-rig all fruitful soyls whatsoever you may now also very seasonably geld your Lambs carry Manure from your Dove-cots and put your Swine to the early or first Mast. They that would have good seeds for their Gardens next Year must now gather of their own lest in buying their expectation be frustrate and so they lose their labour and their layings out and such as desire to have Lettice or other Herbs for the Winter they must sow their seeds in the Increase of the Moon In August moderate diet is good Physick for now there is danger of surfets and take heed of heats and then colds for it is the high way to a Pleurisie and use not to sleep much especially after Noons for fear of oppilations and stopping Flegme and for the avoiding of Agues Head-ach and Catarhs avoid Physick unless necessity compells and abstain from Wine shun Feasts and Banquets and only take delight in diet and drinks that are cool and temperate I had a touch at your Recreations before and that your Cock may not kick your Coyn out of your pocket I shall give you some marks to choose a good one by know then that the best characters observable in a fighting Cock are his shape colour courage and sharp heel for his shape the middle size is ever accounted best because they be ever most matchable strong nimble and ready for your pleasure in his battel and so the exceeding little Cock is as hard to match and is commonly weak and tedious in his manner of fighting He would be of a proud and upright shape with a small head like a Spar-Hawk quick large eye and a strong back crookt and big at the setting on and in colour sutable to the plume of his feathers as black yellow or reddish the beam of his leg would be very strong and according to his plume blew gray or yellow his spurs long rough and sharp and a little bending and looking inward for his colour the gray pyle the yellow pyle or the red with the blanck breast is esteemed the best the pyde is not so good and the white and dun are the worst if he be red about the head like scarlet it is a signe of lust strength and courage but if he be pale it is a signe of sickness and faintness for his Courage you shall observe it in his walk by his treading and the pride of his going and in his Pen by his oft Crowing for the sharpness of his heel it is only seen in his fighting for that Cock is said to be sharp or narrow heel'd which every time he riseth hitteth and draws blood of his adversary gilding his spurs in blood and threatning at every blow an end of the Battel I wish you such a Cock Farewell The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of August THe 1. at Bath Bedford Chepstow Dunstable S. Eedes Exceter Feversham Flint Hay Hersnay Kaermarthen Kaerwilly Llantrissent Llawrwin Ludford Loughborough Mailing Newton in Lancashire Newcastle Trent Northam-church Romney Selby Shrewsbury Selbourn Thaxted Wisbich Yelland York The 4. at Radnor Linton The 6. at Burdney Peterborough The 9. at Aberlew The 10. at Alchurch Banbury Blakamore Bodwin Brainford Chidley Chorley Croyley Diffringoliwick Doncaster Farnham Frodisham Fullsea Harleigh Hawk-hurst Horn-castle Hungerford Keilow Ludlow Marras Molton Moubray Moirworth Newborough Owndle Rugby Sherborn Torceter Waltham Abby Waldon Weidon Wormster Winstow The 15. at S. Albones Bolton Cambridge Carlisle Cardigan Dunmow Huntington Marlborough Northampton Preston Ross Stow Strowd Swansey Wakefield The 24. at Ashby de la Zouch Beggers bush Bromley Pagets Chorley Croyley Dover Faringdon Kidderminster London Monmouth Mongommery Nantwich Northallerton Norwich Oxford Tewksbury Sluggard where art Is this a time to sleep When Heaven for the whole Year does Market keep Go to the Ant and but consider how To live in Winter she bestirs her now If Harvest thee in such a slumber rocks Thy mouth shall muzzled be and not the Oxe God but for labour sells good things to none The Bees are busie and abhor a Drone The Reapers heads shall be with Flowers crown'd When thou shalt lie neglected on the ground 30 Dayes September SEPTEMBER IT is now September and the glittering Charioteer of heaven is driving down the hill apace and the beauty of the earth is generally decaying seeming no longer a lively act of Nature but a meer Landskip which the teeth of time has more then half defaced the sap of the Trees sinks down into the earth and the wi●hering leaves fall after it the lofty Ash that but the other day lockt up his moisture in his arms and vertical boughs now hath got a Palsie and lets his keys fall In a word the whispering woods are now fain to quit their leavie pretences and come to the naked truth the Meadows are left bare by the mouths of the hungry Cattel and the Hogs those four-footed Swains are become the Plowers of the Corn-fields the wind begins to bluster among the Apples and knock their heads together on the Trees and the wind-falls are gathered to fill the Pies for the Houshold