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Tusser (THOMAS an English musician)

THOMAS, an English musician, teacher, and poet; best known as the author of "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry"; born in Rivenhall, Essex, England, about 1524. From his rhyming autobiography it would appear that he served as a chorister first at Wallingford Chapel, and afterward at St. Paul's. In rude rustic rhymes, which have hardly a claim even to the name of verse, he inculcated a good amount of sound agricultural wisdom; and the book is still of interest for the glimpses it affords of the country life of the times, as well as for occasional passages of The quaint and vigorous expression. best editions are Dr. Mavor's (1812), Arber's (1870), and the English Dialect Society's (1878). He died in London about 1580.