CHAPTER XIII.
PARTINGS.
The routine of life at Wroote, where there was "plenty of meat and drink," though money and clothes were so scarce, and where the girls each took their part in the business of the house and glehe, and in waiting on their parents, is pleasantly described in verse by Samuel Wesley, who saw things at their best during his visit in the summer of 1725, and probably then succeeded in reconciling Hetty and her father and mother. Odes and metrical addresses were very much in vogue, and the Wesleys were all fluent writers of verse. The piece was entitled " Wroote," and sent to Hetty. Here are a few of the stanzas which are contained in his published poems:—
The spacious glebe around the house
Affords full pasture to the cows,
Whence largely milky nectar flows,
O sweet and cleanly dairy!
Unless or Moll, or Anne, or you
Your duty should neglect to do;
And then 'ware haunches black and blue
By pinching of a fairy.
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