This is the extremest of all misfortunes, and all remedy desperate in appearance, because it is impossible to be concealed. 63) “And the servants of ((Allah)) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, “Peace!”;” 1) The faithful slaves (ibaad-ur-rehman) walk on the earth with modesty, i.e they do not walk with pride. 125 pages. Never clean your spits after they have been used; for the grease left upon them by meat is the best thing to preserve them from rust; and when you make use of them again, the same grease will keep the inside of the meat moist. Whet the backs of your knives until they are as sharp as the edge; which will have this advantage, that when gentlemen find them blunt on one side, they may try the other; and to show you spare no pains in sharpening the knives, whet them so long, till you wear out a good part of the iron, and even the bottom of the silver handle. Detailed Summary & Analysis Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Themes All Themes Puritanism and Individuality Hysteria The Danger of Ideology Reputation and Integrity Quotes. Brush down the cobwebs with a broom that is wet and dirty, which will make them stick the faster to it, and bring them down more effectually. I must caution you particularly against my lord’s eldest son Definition terms. Go often to St. James’s Park; the fine fellows will soon discover you, and contrive to slip a letter into your sleeve or your bosom: pull it out in a fury, and throw it on the ground, unless you find at least two guineas along with it; but in If your master be a minister of state, let him be at home to none but his pimp, or chief flatterer, or one of his pensionary writers, or his hired spy and informer, or his printer in ordinary, or his city solicitor, or a landjobber, or his inventor of new funds, or a stockjobber. Summary. If your master and lady go into the country for a week or more, never wash the bedchamber or diningroom until just the hour before you expect them to return: thus the rooms will be perfectly clean to receive them, and you will not be at the trouble to wash them so soon again. I cannot contrive any perfect remedy against either of these two evils. 121 When you are to get water on for tea after dinner (which in many families is part of your office) to save firing, and to make more haste, pour it into the teakettle from the pot where cabbage or fish have been boiling, which will make it much wholesomer, by curing the acid and corroding quality of the tea. So, for example, the text’s suggested alternatives to a candlestick are “a coffeecup, or a drinking-glass, a horn can, a teapot, a twisted napkin, a mustardpot, an inkhorn, a marrowbone”. Compliance with Financial Directions is mandatory and not following them may lead to an offence being committed under Part 7 of the Law. The neighbouring tapster, who before would beckon you over to a savoury bit of ox cheek in the morning, Thus far all things went well, and the girl concluded herself out of danger: but it was her ill fortune, that a few hours after in came the parson of the parish, and the lady naturally told him the accident, which you may believe had much discomposed long ſ in the original, [164] never allow him the smallest liberty, not the squeezing of your hand, unless he puts a guinea into it . When you are in lodgings, and no shoeboy to be got, clean your master’s shoes with the bottom of the curtains, a clean napkin, or your landlady’s apron. Then he made me stick two inches of candle in the place where the socket was; after which I pretended to stumble, put out the candle, and broke all the tin part to pieces: at last, he was forced to make use of a lanternboy out of perfect good husbandry. weak as possible: and upon this argument, when you have a mind to treat any of the maids with a dish of fresh coffee, you may, and ought to subtract a part of the powder on account of your lady’s health, and getting her maids good-will. 108 I’m going to assume that you know who Jonathan Swift was. Journey to the east hermann hesse summary ... those who were once close and united about the meaning and purpose of the Union and the Eastern part go in different directions. When your mistress sends you for a hackney coach in a wet day, come back in the coach to save your When you are ordered to call a coach, although it be midnight, go no farther than the door, for fear of being out of the way when you are wanted; and there stand bawling, Coach, Coach, for half an hour. The servants candlesticks are generally broken, for nothing can last for ever. He confuses him by giving wrong directions to Shy lock’s house. I reminded of those French waiters who, with immense superiority, try to tell you what you should order from the menu. Lump three or four pounds of butter together with your hand, then dash it against the wall just over The shops, decorated with seasonal regalia, are strangely bright in the gloom. The word “jordan” means exactly what you were afraid it means. may be preserved by your discretion, and less expense to him; or, if he travels with no other servant, the matter is easily made up in the bill between you and the tapster. Put your finger into every bottle to feel whether it be full, which is the surest way, for feeling has no fellow. 127 Believe an old practitioner; whoever out of malice to a fellow-servant carries a tale to his master, shall be ruined by a general confederacy against him. that case, seem not to find it, and to think he was only playing the wag with you: when you come home, drop the letter carelessly in your lady’s chamber; she finds it, is angry; protest you knew nothing of it, only you remember, that a gentleman in the Park struggled to kiss you, and you believe it was he that put the letter into your sleeve or petticoat; and indeed he was as pretty a man as ever you saw: that she may burn the letter if she pleases. Remember how often you have been stripped, and kicked out of doors, your wages all taken up beforehand, and spent in translated red heeled shoes, secondhand toupees, and repaired laced ruffles, beside a swingeing debt to the alewife and the brandy shop. The cook, the butler, the groom, the marketman, and every other servant who is concerned in the expenses of the family, should act as if his master’s whole estate ought to be applied to that servant’s particular business. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works on language and conduct. But that you, my brethren, may come to better fortunes, I shall here deliver my instructions, which have been the fruits of much thought and observation, as well as of seven years experience. Where there are little Masters and Misses in a House, they are usually great Impediments to the Diversions of the Servants; the only Remedy is to bribe them with Goody Goodyes, that they may not tell Tales to Papa and Mamma. There is a great controversy about the most convenient and genteel way of holding your plate at meals; some stick it between the frame and the back of the chair, which is an excellent expedient, where the make of the chair will allow it: others, for fear the plate should fall, grasp it so firmly, that their thumb reaches to the middle of the hollow; which however, if your thumb be dry, is no secure method; and therefore in that case, I advise your wetting the ball of it with your tongue: as to that absurd practice of letting the back of the plate lye leaning on the hollow of your hand, which some ladies recommend, it is universally exploded, being liable to so many accidents. If the hay be thrown down, there is no loss, for it will make litter and save straw. Let your horses be so well trained, that when you attend your lady at a visit, they will wait until you slip into a neighbouring alehouse to take a pot with a friend. Get a black-guard boy to watch your coach at the church door on Sundays, that you and your brother coachmen may be merry together at the alehouse, while your master and lady are at church. But make them be drunk in your presence, for fear they should be given to other folks, and so your master be wronged: but advise them, if they get drunk, to go to bed, and leave word they are sick; which last caution I would have all the servants observe, both male and female. Let a shoeboy clean your own shoes first, for fear of fouling the chamber, then let him clean your master’s; keep him on purpose for that use, and to run of errands, and pay him with scraps. Never come till you have been called three or four times; for none but dogs will come at the first whistle: and when the master calls “Who’s there?” no servant is bound to come; for Who’s there is nobody’s name. When your master lies at a gentleman’s house, if you find the hay and oats are good, complain aloud of their badness; this will get you the name of a diligent servant; and be sure to cram the horses with as much oats as they can eat, while you are there, and you may give them so much the less for some days at the inns, and turn the oats into ale. I mean the combing your head, which loses no time, because you can stand over your cookery, and watch it with one hand, while you are using your comb with the other. This I have known practised with good success. As Wilde points out in his stage directions, the "presence of servants exercises a restraining influence, under which both girls chafe." It was written in the early 1730s, but only published after Swift’s death in 1745. If your lady loves play, your fortune is fixed for ever; moderate gaming will be a perquisite of ten shillings a week; and in such a family I would rather choose to be butler than chaplain, or even rather than be steward; it is all ready money, and got without labour, unless your lady happens to be one of those, who either obliges you to find wax candies, or forces you to divide it with some favourite servants; but, at worst, the old cards are your own; and if the gamesters play deep or grow peevish, they will change the cards so often, that the old ones will be a considerable advantage by selling them to coffeehouses, or families who love play, but cannot afford better than cards at second hand: when you attend at the service, be sure to leave new packs within the reach of the gamesters; which, those who have ill luck will readily take to change their fortune; and now and then an old pack mingled with the rest will easily pass. Other sections focus on specific subjects such as Women Civil Servants, Special Advisers and Ministerial Directions. When you know your master is most busy in company, come in and pretend to fettle about the room, and if he chides, say, you thought he rung the bell. It is “Dies nefastus.” Any new undertaking begun upon it will surely fail; and any disaster, which may befal any one, is easily accounted for. The mistress of the tea shop may now and then give you half an ounce; but that will be only a drop in the bucket: therefore I fear you must be forced, like the rest of your sisters, to run in trust, and pay for it out of your wages, as far as When you are in this equipage, all the honours he receives on the road are owing to you alone: that he is not turned out of the way by every carrier, is caused by the civility he receives at second hand from the respect paid to your livery. A Modest Proposal, satiric essay by Jonathan Swift, published in pamphlet form in 1729. Swift elaborates these directions to the numerous categories of the "valetaille". [According to vol ii, p. 404-405 of the Rev. Introductory paragraph: summarize the book in general and gives the publication information. Take all Tradesmen's Parts against your Master, and when you are sent to buy any Thing, never offer to cheapen it, but generously pay the full Demand. You cannot but observe, of late years, the great extravagance among the gentry upon the article of candles, which a good butler ought by all means to discourage, both to save his own pains, and his master’s money: this may be contrived several ways; especially when you are ordered to put candles into the sconces. Although you are allowed knives for the servants hall at meals, yet you ought to spare them, and make use only of your master’s. 111 This is for the Honour of your Master and yourself; for he becomes a Man of Credit at your Recommendation. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants' and other works on language and conduct. 63) “And the servants of ((Allah)) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, “Peace!”;” 1) The faithful slaves (ibaad-ur-rehman) walk on the earth with modesty, i.e they do not walk with pride. Rules that concern All Servants in general. This chapter describes a scenario that was very common in the ancient world. Now this epidemical lameness of servants’ chairs, is by philosophers imputed When you rid up the parlour hearth in a morning, throw the last night’s ashes into a sieve; and what falls through, as you carry it down, will serve instead of sand for the rooms and the stairs. he dunned the duke of Buckingham for an arrear of wages in his service; and I could instance many more, particularly another, whose son had one of the chief employments at court; and it is sufficient to give you the following advice, which is to be pert and saucy to all mankind, especially to the Have bottles ready by to save it; and it will be a good perquisite either to sell, or drink with the cook. When you roast a breast of veal, remember your sweetheart the butler loves a sweetbread; therefore set it aside till evening: you can say, the cat or the dog has run away with it, or you found it tainted, or flyblown; and besides it looks as well at the table, without it as with it. Characters All Characters John Proctor Reverend Parris Reverend Hale Elizabeth Proctor Abigail Williams Thomas Putnam Giles Corey Francis Nurse Deputy Governor Danforth Do the same for your lady when she longs for any thing in sickness, and engage it will do her good. shortest and surest way is, when you remove the cloth, to wrap the knives, forks, spoons, saltcellars, broken bread, and scraps of meat all together, in the tablecloth; by which you will be sure to lose nothing, unless you think it better to shake them out of the window among the beggars, that they may with more convenience eat the scraps. There is nothing so pernicious in a Family as a Tell-Tale, against whom it must be the principal Business of you all to unite: Whatever Office he serves in, take all Opportunities to spoil the Business he is about, and to cross him in every Thing. You must follow this practice as often as you safely can; but let him, who pays you best with every letter, be the handsomest man. Quick fast explanatory summary. Hay and oats, in the management of a skilful groom, will make excellent ale, as well as brandy; but this I only hint. Although you gentlemen in livery have the misfortune to be treated scurvily by all mankind, yet you make a shift to keep up your spirits, and sometimes arrive at considerable fortunes. 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