Mistress, your father prays you leave your books, And help to dress your sister’s chamber up: You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.

Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, / And bowled to death with turnips.

[Friar:] Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. / Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed. Sow them in late spring in the greenhouse or coldframe, but don't be tempted to sow any earlier otherwise they turn into triffids, hog all your greenhouse space and promote fungal diseases.