Living
Thou Hast Each Secret of the Household, Francis
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
THOU hast each secret of the household, Francis.
I dare be sworn thou hast been in the buttery
Steeping thy curious humour in fat ale,
And in the butler's tattle -- ay, or chatting
With the glib waiting-woman o'er her comfits :
These bear the key to each domestic mystery.
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Codex Note
From The Abbot (1820)
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