If thy ewe haue mylke, and wyll not loue her lambe, put her in a narowe place made of bordes, or of smothe trouse, a yarde wyde, and put the lambe to her, and [Sidenote: If a ewe] socle it, and yf the ewe smyte the lambe with her 4 [Sidenote: [Fol. 27_b_.]] heed, bynd her heed with a heye-rope, or a corde, to [Sidenote: smite her lamb, tie up her head.] the syde of the penne: and if she wyl not stande syde longe all the lambe,[27] than gyue her a lyttell hey, and tye a dogge by her, that she maye se hym: and 8 this wyll make her to loue her lambe shortely. And if thou haue a lambe deed, wherof the damme hath [Sidenote: Put a dead lamb’s skin on a live lamb, and so change its dam.] moche mylke, fley that lambe, and tye that skynne vpon an other lambes backe, that hath a sory damme, with 12 lyttell mylke, and put the good ewe and that lambe to-gether in the penne, and in one houre she wyll loue that lambe; & than mayst thou take thy sory weyke ewe awaye, and put her in an other place: and by this 16 meanes thou mayste fortune to saue her lyfe, and the lambes bothe. 39. ¶ What tyme lambes shulde be wayned. In some places they neuer seuer their lambes from theyr dammes, and that is for two causes: One is, in the beste pasture where the rammes goo alwaye with [Sidenote: In the best pastures, lambs wean themselves.] theyr ewes, there it nedeth not, for the dammes wil 4 waxe drye, and wayne theyr lambes theym-selfe. An other cause is, he that hath noo seuerall and sounde [Sidenote: [Fol. 28.]] pasture, to put his lambes vnto whan they shoulde be wayned, he muste eyther sell them, or let them sucke 8 as longe as the dammes wyll suffre theym; and it is a common sayinge, that the lambe shall not rotte, as longe as it souketh, excepte the damme wante meate. [Sidenote: Lambs to be weaned at 16 weeks, or 18.] But he that hath seueral and sounde pasture, it is tyme 12 to wayne theyr lambes, whanne they be .xvi. wekes old, or .xviii. at the farthest, and the better shall the ewe take the ramme agayne. And the poore man of the peeke countreye, and suche other places, where as 16 they vse to mylke theyr ewes, they vse to wayne theyr [Sidenote: In the Peak, lambs are weaned at 12 weeks.] lambes at xii. wekes olde, and to mylke theyr ewes fiue or syxe wekes, &c. But those lambes be neuer soo good as the other that sucke longe, and haue 20 meate ynoughe. 40. ¶ To drawe shepe, and seuer them in dyuers places.