"As some good housewife, who, to labour born, Fresh to her loom must rise with early morn; Studious to gain what human wants require, In embers heaped preserves the seeds of fire; Renewed by these the brand rekindling burns, And all the glowing heap to ashes turns: Thus, kindling slow, love's secret flames invade, And torture, as they rise, the troubled maid: Her changeful cheeks the heart-felt anguish show, Now pale they turn, now like the ruby glow."
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Compare: — What time the poor laborious frugal dame, Who plies the distaff, stirs the dying flame; Employs her handmaids by the winking light, And lengthens out their tasks with half the night; Thus to her children she divides the bread, And guards the honours of her homely bed. — The Æneid of Virgil, tr. by Christopher Pitt (1740), VIII. 548–553
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