"Farewell, Rewards and Faeries, Good Housewives now may say, For now foule Slutts in Dairies Doe fare as well as they; And though they sweepe theyr Hearths no less Than Maydes were wont to doe, Yet who of late for Cleaneliness Finds sixe-pence in her Shoe?"
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Richard Corbet
(or Corbett; 1582 – 28 July 1635) was an English clergyman who rose to be (1628) and then (1632) in the Church of England. He is also remembered as a humourist and as a poet, although his work was not published until after his death.
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