John Trapp on Proverbs 31:19
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Proverbs31:19
Verſ. 19. She layeth her hands to the Spindle] Notwithſtanding her late purchaſe, and planting a vine-yard, verſ. 16. and other out-buſineſſes. Lucretia inter ancillas ad Lucernam fila ducebat. Life and Death of Card. Wolſ. p. 69. Act. & Mon. fol. 957. See the Note on verſ. 13. The two Cardinals Wolſie and Campeius coming from King Henry the eighth on a meſſage to Queen Katharine of Spain, a little afore the divorce, found her with a skain of red ſilk about her neck, being at work with her maiden. And Queen Anne of Bullen kept her Maids, and all that were about her, ſo buſied in ſowing and working, that neither was there ſeen any idleneſs then amongſt them, nor any leaſure to follow ſuch paſtimes as are uſually in Princes Courts.
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