Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	respect_n	servant_n	1,977	5	7.1711	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66839	The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.	1677 (1677)	Wing W3273A; ESTC R221142	53,634	187

The Compleat SERVANT-MAID OR THE Young Maidens Tutor Directing them how they may fit and qualifie themselves for any of these Employments Viz. Waiting-Woman House-keeper Chamber-Maid Cook-Maid Vnder Cook-Maid Nursery-Maid Dairy-Maid Laundry-Maid House-Maid Scullery-Maid Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young Maidens LONDON Printed for T. Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge 1677. Licensed January 20. 1676 7 R. L'Estrange THE EPISTLE TO ALL Young Maidens Sweet Hearts THe great desire I have for your good advantage and preferment in the world is such that I respect it equal with my own I have therefore with great pains and industry composed this little Book as a Rich Store-house for you from whence you may be furnished with such excellent directions as may qualifie you for and make you capable of serving the greatest person of Honour or Quality or Gentleman or Gentlewoman either in City or Country For besides those necessary directions which teaches you how to behave and carry your self and perform your duty in the several employments of Waiting-woman House-keeper Chamber-Maid Cook-Maid Vnder Cook-Maid Nursery-Maid Dairy-Maid Laundry-Maid House-Maid and Scullery-Maid You have directions for Preserving Conserving and Candying for Writing the most usual hands for Women as Mixt Hand Roman and Italian Hands for Arithmetick as much as is necessary for your Sex also the Art of Carving and Distilling with choice Receipts for Physick and Chyrurgery for Washing and Starching of Tiffanies Points and Laces for making of Pies Custards Cheesecakes and the like also for making of Pickles and Sawces and for dressing of Flesh Fowl and Fish and for making several sorts of Creams and Syllabubs With variety of choice Receipts for preserving the Hair Teeth Face and keeping the Hands white Also a Bill of Fare of the most usual and proper meats for every Month in the Year So that if you carefully and diligently peruse this Book and observe the directions therein given you will soon gain the Title of a Complete Servan●-maid which may be the means of making you a good Mistress For there is no Sober Honest and Discreet man but will make choice of one that hath Gained the Reputation of a Good and Complete Servant for his Wife rather than one who can do nothing but Trick up her self fine an● like a Bartholomew Baby● is fit for nothing else but to be looked upon This Consideration wil● I hope Stir you up to th● Attaining of these most Excellent Qualifications and Accomplishments Which that you may do is the earnest desire of your Well Wisher General DIRECTIONS TO Young Maidens IF You would endeavour to gain the esteem and reputation of a good Servant and so procure to your self not only great Wages but also great gifts and vales the love and respect of your Lady Master or Mistress and the blessing of God Almighty upon all your lawful endeavours you must in the fir●● place be mindful of your duty to your ●reator according to the advice of Solo●●●● Eccles. 12. 1. Remember thy Creaton in 〈…〉 thy Youth Be careful that you 〈…〉 ●rayers morning and evening that ●ou re●d good books and hear Sermons as often as conve●iently you can 2. That you endeavour carefully to please your Lady Master or Mistress be faithful diligent and suhmis●ive to them encline not to sloth or laze in bed but rise early in a morning 3. Be humble and modest in your behaviour 4. Be ●eat cleanly and huswifely in your clothes and lay up what money can handsomely be spared 5. Be careful o● what is given you o● what you have in your charge that by so doing you may oblige them to be loving and kind to you and cause them to speak well of you 6. Do not ke●p familiarity with any bu● those with whom you may improve you● time 7. If you are entrusted with any secrets be careful that you reveal them not 8. Be careful that you wast not or spoi● your Ladies or Mistresses goods neither si● you up junketing a nights after your Maste● and Mistress be abed Lastly If you behave your self civilly a●● be neat cleanly and careful to 〈◊〉 yo● will be cherished and encoura●●● not onl● with good words but good 〈◊〉 Thus have I given you s●●e short dire●ctions in general I shall now give you particular directions for every employment from the Waiting Gentlewoman to the Scullery Maid that so you may be capable of serving in the highest as well as the lowest place Directions for such as desire to be Waiting Gentlewomen IF You desire to be a Waiting Gentlewoman to a person of honour or quality you must 1. Learn to dress well 2. Preserve well 3. Write well a legible hand good language and good English 6. Have some skill in Arithmetick 7. Carve well Having learned these you must remember to be courteous and modest in your behaviour to all persons according to their degree humble and submissive to your Lord and Lady or M●s●er and Mistress neat in your habit loving to Servants Sober in your countenance and discourse not using any wanton gesture which may give Gentlemen any occasion to suspect you of levity and so court you to debauchery and by that means lose a reputation irrecoverabl●● I shall now give you some short directions whereby you may learn to preserve write well carve well and have some skill in Arithmetick Directions for Preserving Conserving and Candying H●w to preserve Barberies Make choice of the largest and fairest bunches picking off the withered or shrunk Ba●beries and wash them clean drying them in a clean cloth after this take a quantity of Barberies and boyl them in Claret Wine till they be soft then strain them well thorow a strainer wringing the juice hard thorow it boyl this strained Liquor with Sugar till it be thick and very sweet let it then stand till it be cold then put your branches of Barberries into Gally pots and fill th●m up with this Liquor By this means you will have both the Syrup of Barberies and their preserves To Preserve Pears Take Pears that are sound and newly gathered from the Tree indifferent ripe then lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves and so make a lay of Pears and leaves till the pot is filled up laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger then pour in as much old wine as the Pot will hold laying some heavy thing on the Pears that the Pot may not swim To preserve green Pippins Take half a score green Pippins from the Tree pare them and boil them in a Pottle of water till they are like a pulp strain them from the cores then ●ake two pound of Sugar and mingle it with the Liquor or pulp so strained then set it on the fire and as soon as it boyleth put in the Pippins you intend to preserve so let them boil leasurely till they be enough when they are preserved they will be green In like sort you may preserve Quinces