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Tusser advised the good housewife that she should give her servants enough food but that luxuries should be avoided: 'Give servant no dainties, but give ynough, too many chaps walking, do beggar the plough.

Thence for my voice, I must (no choice) Away of force, like posting horse, For sundry men, had placards then, Such child to take: But mark the chance, myself to [ad]vance, By friendships lot, to Paul's I got, So found I grace, a certain space, Still to remain: With Redford there, and like no where, For cunning such, and virtue much By whom some part of Music are So did I gain (10) Tusser reminds us that his impressment occurred when he was but a 'child'; choristers were typically between the ages of seven and sixteen.

Thomas Tusser also offered advice to his readers on the correct season for felling and taking bark.

It is true what Thomas Tusser said: "A fool and his money are soon parted."

The strongest chapters, on the poetry of Skelton and Sir Thomas Wyatt, William Baldwin's Mirror for Magistrates, Thomas Tusser's 'author's life' in his book on husbandry, and Isabella Whitney's 'letters,' critically identify and examine literary strategies where the writers offer glimpses of personal reflection to the reader.

Thomas Tusser wrote that "a fool and his money are soon parted," and every investor should keep this in mind at all times.

Thomas Tusser, 16thcentury farmer and author, summed it up when he said, "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."

(14) The English inheritors of the georgic tradition in the three centuries leading up to his own were also favorites of Thoreau: e.g., Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1573), John Evelyn's Sylva (1679), and especially James Thomson's The Seasons (1730), and William Cowper's The Task (1785).

(52) There are remarks about singers and singing to be gleaned from writers both well-known and more obscure, and as diverse as George Puttenham, Sir Philip Sidney, Miles Coverdale, Thomas Deloney, Roger Ascham, Samuel Harsnet, Thomas Tusser, Henry Chettle, Thomas Nashe, Robert Burton, Sir William Cornwallis, Richard Corbet, Nicholas Breton, John Earle, Wye Saltonstall, Izaak Walton, John Aubrey, Dorothy Osborne, Addison, Pope, and Defoe.

Additionally, following the publication of John Fitzherbert's Boke of Husbondrye in 1523, for over a century works by Thomas Tusser, Barnabe Googe, Andrew Yarranton, and others argued to wealthy landowners that changes in agricultural practices (especially the substituting of indigenous plants with ryegrass, clover, trefoil, carrots, turnips, and sainfoin) could lead to dramatic increases in crop yields and profit.

From there they filtered back into advice books, such as Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Among the flowers mentioned by Thomas Tusser in his list of Herbes, Branches and Flowers for Windowes and Pots are columbines, hollyhocks, lavender 'of all sorts' Sweet Williams, pinks, Snap Dragons, French marigolds and roses.

The enticing fare includes huge quantities of edible fungi and roots, green vegetables, salad herbs and seaweed, not to mention berries and other fruits.(4) Such studies echo the rising tide of works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which detailed the availability of wild foods and herbs: Thomas Tusser listed large numbers of `seeds and herbs for the kitchen', `herbs and roots for salads and sauce', and other such foods; William Langham in his Garden of Health of 1597 extolled the virtues of all herbs and plants which `can be gotten without any cost or labour, the most of them being such as grow in most places and are common among us'; and, in the seventeenth century, the works of Nicholas Culpeper became indispensible for anyone interested in herbalism.

IN 1553 a wise man called Thomas Tusser compiled a list of the 10 essential qualities a good woman should exhibit.