Once Christmas was over the farmer said goodbye to feasting and turned to rearing his stock. Tusser opened his January with the rule, promising that profit would repay the pains. Plough Monday, next after Twelftide, sent the plough back out.
Bid feasting adieu when Christmas is ended
7 January · England
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When Christmas is ended, bid feasting adue, / goe play the good husband, thy stock to renue.
From Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, p. 76. Read the original
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