Английская поэзия XIV–XX веков в современных русских переводах (билингва)

Threshe sede and goe fanne, for the plough may not lye,
September doth bid to be sowing of rye;
The redges well harrowde or euer thou strike,
is one poynt of husbandry rye land do like.

Geue winter corne leaue for to haue full his lust,

sowe wheate as thou mayst but sowe rye in the dust:
Be carefull for sede, for such sede as thou sowe,
as true as thou liuest, loke justly to mowe.

The sede being sowne waterforow thy ground,

that rain when it cummeth may runne away round:
The diches kept skowred the hedge clad with thorne,
doth well to drayne water and saueth thy corne.

When furth with thy slinges, and thine arowes & bowes,

till ridges be grene kepe the corne from the crowes.
A good boye abrode, by the day starre appere,
shall skare good man crowe that he dare not come nere.

At Mihelmas mast would be loked upon,

and lay to get some or the mast time be gon:
It saueth thy corne well, it fatteth thy swyne;
In frost it doth helpe them, where els they should pine.

October

The rye in the ground while September doth last:
October for wheate sowing, calleth as fast.
What euer it cost thee what euer thou geue,
haue done sowing wheate before halowmas eve.

The mone in the wane, gather fruit on the tree,

the riper the better for graffe and for thee.
But michers that loue not to bie nor to craue:
make some gather sooner, els fewe should they haue.

Or winter doe come while the weather is good:

for gutting thy grounde get the home with thy wood.
Set bauen alone, lay the bowghes from the blockes:
the drier the les maidens dablith their dockes.

For rooting thy grounde ring thy hogges thou hast nede:

the better thou ring them, the better they fede.
Most times with their elders the yong ones kepe best:
then yoke well the great knaues and fauour the rest.

But yoke not thy swine while thine akorne time last:

for diuers misfortunes that happen to fast.
Or if thou loue eared and vnmaimed hogges
giue eie to thy neighbour and eare to his dogges.

Томас Тассер (ок. 1524–1580)

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