On St Gregory’s Day, 12 March, the farmer stopped grazing his meadows so that the grass could grow for hay. He did the same with the marshes at Easter. Tusser warned that in a dry summer there was no time to lose, and that the meadows should then be hedged and ditched.
Meadows shut up at Gregory, marshes at Pask
12 March · England
No longer kept
Spare meadow at Gregorie, marshes at Pask, / for feare of drie Sommer, no longer time ask.
From Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, p. 97. Read the original
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