Born in Essex, Tusser attended Eton where he wrote an account of privations under the notorious schoolmaster Nicholas Udall. Graduating from Cambridge, he spent ten years as chief musician to Baron Paget before marrying and setting himself up as a farmer in Suffolk. He wrote 'A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie', a curious record of the farming year written in rhyming couplets. Moving around East Anglia at various farmsteads, he was for a while a singer at Norwich Cathedral, and upon his death was a comfortably well-off landowner. His lasting monument is his invention of the proverbs 'A fool and his money are soon parted' and 'Christmas comes but once a year'. According to Stow's 'Survey of London', written at the turn of the seventeenth century, his epitaph read : Here THOMAS TUSSER,
clad in earth, doth lie,
That sometime made
The pointes of Husbandrie:
By him then learne thou maist;
here learne we must,
When all is done, we sleepe,
and turne to dust:
And yet, through Christ,
to Heaven we hope to goe;
Who reades his bookes,
shall find his faith was so.
clad in earth, doth lie,
That sometime made
The pointes of Husbandrie:
By him then learne thou maist;
here learne we must,
When all is done, we sleepe,
and turne to dust:
And yet, through Christ,
to Heaven we hope to goe;
Who reades his bookes,
shall find his faith was so.
Born in Essex, Tusser attended Eton where he wrote an account of privations under the notorious schoolmaster Nicholas Udall. Graduating from Cambridge, he spent ten years as chief musician to Baron Paget before marrying and setting himself up as a farmer in Suffolk. He wrote 'A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie', a curious record of the farming year written in rhyming couplets. Moving around East Anglia at various farmsteads, he was for a while a singer at Norwich Cathedral, and upon his death was a comfortably well-off landowner. His lasting monument is his invention of the proverbs 'A fool and his money are soon parted' and 'Christmas comes but once a year'. According to Stow's 'Survey of London', written at the turn of the seventeenth century, his epitaph read : Here THOMAS TUSSER,
clad in earth, doth lie,
That sometime made
The pointes of Husbandrie:
By him then learne thou maist;
here learne we must,
When all is done, we sleepe,
and turne to dust:
And yet, through Christ,
to Heaven we hope to goe;
Who reades his bookes,
shall find his faith was so.
clad in earth, doth lie,
That sometime made
The pointes of Husbandrie:
By him then learne thou maist;
here learne we must,
When all is done, we sleepe,
and turne to dust:
And yet, through Christ,
to Heaven we hope to goe;
Who reades his bookes,
shall find his faith was so.
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