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IL.781.001
1 Jan 1781:11 (3/135)
ON SATURDAY, AND ABSURD CLEANLINESS.
My wife's of manners gentle, pure and kind,
An honest heart--a most ingenious mind;
Beautious and gay, domestic without voice;
And but one fault--indeed she's over nice.
Mops, pails, and brushes, dusters, matts, and soap,
Are sepiers of controul--her joy, her hope,
Each day we scrub and scower house, yard, and limb,
And on a Saturday, ye Gods, we swim!
. . . [1 column follows on housecleaning, then citation from
first speech in Cato by Addison:]
The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day;
Th' important Saturday;
The great, th' important, humid Saturday,
Big with the fate of bucket--and of broom!
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