"Works And Days"
Some time or another, Apollo my helper, I would choose to write a new Works and Days wherein the land-lore of our own Boeotia should be recorded and enshrined for a season. There should be less practice than Tusser gives you, less art than the Georgics, but rather more of each than Hesiod finds occasion for. Though it is long since I read the Georgics, I seem to remember that the poem was overloaded with spicy merchandise. You might die of it in aromatic pain. As for Tusser, certainly he is the complete Elizabethan farmer； sooner than leave anything out he will say it twice； sooner than say it twice, he will say it three times. Nevertheless he was a good farmer； as poet, his itch to be quaint and anxiety to find a rhyme combine to make him difficult. He writes like Old Moore:
Strong yoke for a hog, with a twitcher and rings,
With tar in a tarpot, for dangerous things；
A sheep-mark, a tar-kettle, little or mitch,
Two pottles of t

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