Happiness is fair weather for the harvest

 If weather be faire and tidie, thy grain

Make speedilie carriage, for fear of a raine.

-- Thomas Tusser

Happiness is the rye, and the straw thereof

In champion countrie a pleasure they take

To mow up their haume, for to brew and to bake:

The haume is the straw of the wheat or the rie

Which once being reaped, they mow by and by. 

-- Thomas Tusser

Happiness is knowing how to double your crop

Gather the lowest, and leaving the top,

Shall teach thee a trick for to double thy crop.

-- Thomas Tusser

Happiness is knowing where to plant what

 

 

 

 The north is a noier to grass of all suits,

The east a destroyer to herbs and all fruits.

-- Thomas Tusser

Happiness is good huswifery (and husbandrie)

 

 

 

 

Good huswifery trieth

To rise with the cock;

Ill huswifery lyeth

Till nine of the clock.

-- Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie & Note, 1573