| William Lilly - Astrologers - 1822 - 310 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch -water in a tub from the Thames : I have helped...garden ; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers, &c. If I had any profession, it was of this nature : I should never have denied... | |
| English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...when he went abroad; to make clean bis shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning; weed the garden; scrape trenchers, and s'o forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...when he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes, sweep the streets, help to drive bucks when we washed, fetch water in a tub from the Thames, (I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning,) weed the garden, scrape trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have... | |
| James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the streets ; help to drive bucks when we washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames — I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; weed the garden, scrape trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this nature. I should never have... | |
| Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 882 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweet the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames (I have helped to carry eighteen tuba of water in one morning) ; weed the garden. All manner of drudgeries I performed, scraped trenchers,'... | |
| American periodicals - 1863 - 774 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames — I have helped to 380 381 carry eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; — weed the garden. All manner of drudgery I... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 448 pages
...he went abroad ; to make clean his shoes ; sweep the street ; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames (I have helped...garden ; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers,' etc. In 1624 his mistress (he says) died of cancer in the breast, and he came... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1922 - 500 pages
...he went abroad; to make clean his " shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; " fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning ; weed the garden ; scrape " trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this " nature. I should never... | |
| Autobiographies - 1918 - 456 pages
...when he went abroad; to make clean his shoes; sweep the street; help to drive bucks when he washed ; fetch water in a tub from the Thames: I have helped...garden; all manner of drudgeries I willingly performed ; scrape trenchers, &c. If I had any profession, it was of this nature: I should never have denied... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Geoffrey Palgrave Barker - 500 pages
...he went abroad; to make clean his " shoes; sweep the streets; help to drive bucks when we washed; " fetch water in a tub from the Thames, I have helped...eighteen tubs of water in one morning; weed the garden; scrape " trenchers, and so forth. If I had any profession, it was of this " nature. I should never... | |
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