wounden, wrapped, and wouen, it nedeth not for me to shewe, for they be wise ynough; and therof may they 44 [Sidenote: Make sheets, towels, and shirts.] make shetes, bordclothes, towels, shertes, smockes, and suche other necessaryes, and therfore let thy dystaffe be alwaye redye for a pastyme, that thou be not ydle. And vndouted a woman can-not gette her lyuynge 48 honestely with spynnynge on the distaffe, but it stoppeth [Sidenote: [Fol. 62.]] a gap, and muste nedes be had. The bolles of flaxe, whan they be ripeled of, must be rideled from the wedes, [Sidenote: Dry the flax.] and made drye with the son, to get out the sedes. Howe 52 be it one maner of linsede, called loken sede, wyll not open by the son: and therfore, whan they be drye, they muste be sore brused and broken, the wiues knowe howe, and than winowed and kepte drye, tyll yere-tyme come 56 agayn. Thy female hempe must be pulled from the churle hempe, for that beareth no sede, and thou must do by it, as thou dydest by the flax. The churle hempe beareth sede, and beware that byrdes eate it not, as it 60 groweth: the he_m_p therof is not soo good as the female [Sidenote: Sometimes there is a great deal to do.] hempe, but yet it wyll do good seruyce. May fortune somtime, that thou shalt haue so many thinges to do, that thou shalt not well knowe where is best to begyn. Than 64 take hede, which thing shulde be the greattest losse, if it were not done, and in what space it wold be done: than thinke what is the greatest losse, & there begyn. [Sidenote: Leave that till last which will best wait.] But in case that thynge, that is of greateste losse, wyll 68 be longe in doynge, and thou myghteste do thre or foure other thynges in the meane whyle, thanne loke well, if all these thynges were sette together, whiche of them were the greattest losse; and if all these thynges be of 72 [Sidenote: [Fol. 62_b_.]] greater losse, and may be all done in as shorte space, as the other, than doo thy many thynges fyrste.