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At the same time he commends, quite in Hesiod's style, a prudent avoidance of the law-courts:—

Quite in Hesiod's groove, too, is Tusser's opinion about borrowing and lending; and his adagial way of discouraging the claims of relations and connections to a share in our farm profits savours curiously of the counsel of the 'Works and Days:'—

We have seen, too, how Hesiod makes a point of prescribing very strictly the staff which a farmer may