What does "set your hay" mean? I found it in a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt:
None of ye all there is so mad
To seek grapes upon brambles or briers,
Nor none, I trow, that hath his wit so bad
To set his hay for conies over rivers;
Ne ye set not a drag-net for a hare.
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