March strolled placidly about, quoting
Tusser, Cowley, and Columella to Mr.
(Thomas
Tusser) Lang may ye need at trowel Jim, an takkin the title o a tune Angus Fitchett wrote for ace accordionist an professional gardener, the late Jimmy Blue, lang may we keep readin at, 'Jimmy's aye diggin'.
(11) Consider, for example, the series of points directed to the housewife, set amidst a numbered series of points to the husbandman, in Thomas
Tusser's Hundreth pointes of good husbandrie (London, 1557), marking their distinction from the time and calendar of the surrounding points by breaking from their system of numbering and demarcation.
"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." a Thomas
TusserShowing a pile of sarees kept on a table, Carlson elucidated that Kanjivaram, Dupion, Jamdani and
Tusser are her favourites and called them as "beautiful."
Thomas
Tusser advised the good housewife that by noon she should have dinner 'readie and neate' but that she should 'let meat tarrie servant, not servant his meate.
Poems also denounced the abuse of words; see
Tusser, Yates, and Jordan.
(9) Such was the fate of Thomas
Tusser, who describes how he came to sing at Paul's in the 153 0 s:
Period writers on credit frequently counseled suspicion as a basic strategy in making decisions about borrowing and lending; see, among others, Thomas
Tusser, Five Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry (London, 1573), esp.
Thomas
Tusser, one popular agricultural writer and farmer in the sixteenth century, published his tips for good stewardship of woods in his Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1573).
John Worlidge and John Evelyn were some of the more notable writers of the 17th Century, but my favourite, Thomas
Tusser, is earlier still.
"Shakespeare and Farming: The Bard and the
Tusser." Agricultural History 59.3 (Jul.