Humphrey Clinker

Name: Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women, and the pride of the young
Author: Humphrey Clinker

Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

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“Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women, and the pride of the young”, published in 1820, is a work by Humphrey Clinker. It explores elements such as bairns, hurdies and silver.

Quotes from Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (Humphrey Clinker)

Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ I dang the diel out of them, an dadded them like a wet dish-clout, till they did my bidding: but now the bairns are brought to spit fire in their mither's face, and cast dirt on their auld daddies. How can they be good, who never saw a sample of it; or reverence old age who practised no precepts in their youth? How can they love their parents, who gave them black poison instead of good principles; who shewed them no good, and taught them no duties? No marvel, such children despise old age, and reverence their parents as an old horse does his father. ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ Her mother ay said that she wad be a lady, but could never tell where her hands lay: but when money is all spent, credit broken, and conduct out of keeping, a wheen babling bubly bairns crying piece, minny, porritch, minny, the witless wanton waster is at her wit's end. Work now or want, and do not say that the world has waur'd you; but lofty noddle, your giddy-headed mother, has led you astray, by learning you to be a lady, before you was fit to be a servant lass, by teaching you laziness instead of hard labour ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ THE madness of the unmuzzled age has driven me to mountains of thought and a continued meditation; it is enough to make an auld wife rin red-wood, and drive a body beyond the halter' end of ill-nature, to see what I see, and hear what I hear ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ The most of such are as blind penny-worths, as buying pigs in pocks, and ought only to be matched with tacket-makers, tree-trimmers, and male-taylors, that they may be male and female agreeable in trade, since their piper-faced fingers are not for hard labour yet they might also pass on a pinch for a black sutor's wife, for the stitching of white seams round this mouth of a lady's shoe ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ But after all we have said, when you begin the warld in, be perfectly rich, before you be gentle; work hard for what you gain, and you'll ken better how to guide it, for pride is an imperfect fortune, and a ludicrous life will not last long.
Another sort I see, who has got more silver than sense, more gold than good nature, more muslins and means than good manners; though sack can hold their silver, six houses and a ha cannot contain their ambitious desires. ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ I mean, the difference between old women and the young; and, Fourthly, Concluding with an advice to young men and young women, how to avoid the buying of Janet Juniper’s stinking butter,❊ which will have a rotten rift on their stomach, as long as they live. ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ Thus the poor pet is brought up like a motherless lamb, or a parrot in a cage; they learn nothing, but to prick and sew, and fling their feet when the fiddle plays; so they become a parcel of yellow-faced female tailors, very unequal matches for countrymen ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ The first thing then I see and observe, is, That a wheen daft, giddy-headed, cock-nosed, juniper-nebbed mothers, bring up a wheen skyracket dancing daughters, a’ bred up to be ladies, without so much as the breadth of their loof of land! ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ Now, after all, if a poor man wants a perfect wife, let him wale a well blooded hssiee, wi' braid shoulders, and thick about the haunches, that hae been lang servant in a'e house, tho twice or thrice away and ay feed back; that's well liked by the bairns, and the bairn's mither, that's nae wa cankard to the cats, nor kicks the colly-dogs amang her feet, that would let a' brute beasts live, and kind to bairns; for them that dants young bairns, wid be kind to auld folks if they had them. ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ I see another sort, who can work, and maun work till they be married, and become mistress themselves; but as the husband receives then their thrift leaves them before that they wrought as for a wager, and they span as for a premium busked as for a brag, scoured their din skin as wauker does worsted blankets ”

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Humphrey Clinker, Janet Clinker's oration, on the villanies of the old women… (1820)

“ And ony hale-hearted wholesome hissie that wants to halter a good husband, let her never take a widow's ae son, for a' the wisely gates in the warld will be in him, for want of a father to teach him manly actions ”

Humphrey Clinker

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