"Huswifery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... none such.... Whenas she swept like Venus through the house, And in her shape fast folded up my thoughts, Into the milk-house went I with the maid, And there amongst the cream-bowls she did shine As Pallas 'mongst her princely huswifery: She turn'd her smock over her lily arms And div'd them into milk to run her cheese; But whiter than the milk her crystal skin, Checked with lines of azure, made her blush That art or nature ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne |
