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It is a wive's occupation to wynowe all manner of cornes, to make…
Quote byAnthony Fitzherbert · 1470–1538
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The book of the husbandry (1523/1882), p. 95-98: On the general duties of a wife..
English (original)
It is a wive's occupation to wynowe all manner of cornes, to make malte, to washe and wrynge, to make heye, shere corne, and, in time of nede, to helpe her husbande to fyll the muckewayne or dounge carte, drive the ploughe, to loade heye, corne, and suche other. And to go or ride to the market, to sel butter, chese, mylke, egges, chekyns, capons, hennes, pygges, gese, and all manner of cornes.
— Anthony Fitzherbert
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