January is Winter-month

Janus feasting; the month of January

Plough Monday, next after that Twelfthtide is past,
Bids out with the plough, the worst husband is last.
If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the screen,
Maids loseth their cock if no water be seen.

Now weather is hard, get much out of yard;

Now season is good to lop or fell wood.
Bid Christmas adieu, thy stock now renew;
From Christmas to May weak cattle decay;
With verjuice acquaint poor bullock so faint;
Warm barth give lambs, good food to their dams;
Keep sheep out of briars, keep beast out of miers;
Calf large and lean is best to wean;
Sow, ready to fare, craves huswife's care.
Who now sows oats gets gold and groats.
Set garden pease and beans if you please;
Sow kernals to bear of apple and pear;
Peach, plum-tree, and cherry, young bay and his herry;
Now set or remove such stocks as ye love.