"Severely criticised by their political opponents for neglecting their official duties, it was said that they had no thought but to live out their days in rural retirement."
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Happiness is good huswifery (and husbandrie)
Good huswifery trieth
To rise with the cock;
Ill huswifery lyeth
Till nine of the clock.
-- Thomas Tusser, Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie & Note, 1573
