Note 92 — 277
Reading edition
These passages are worth noting:
She can carde, she can spin, She can thresh and she can fan. (v. 419 f.) In euery hand a rod he gate And layd vpon her a right good pace. (v. 955 f.) Where art thou, wife? shall I haue any meate? (v. 839.)
(Compare Herd’s fragments with the last two, and with 903-10.)