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The kitchen is his hell and he the very devil in it … he will domineer and rule the roast, in spite of his master, and curses is the very dialect of his calling … His cunning is not small in architecture, for he builds strange fabrics in paste, towers and castles, and like Darius his palace, in one banquet demolished
— Gervase Markham, The English Huswife (1615)
— Gervase Markham, The English Huswife (1615)
