I used to drop in here on Saturdays, when I lived in a coldwater flat and couldn't afford to buy anything […] , she reminisced.

[…] If you would have them Purging, put Honey to them inſtead of Sugar; and if more Laxative, for Choler, Rhubarb; for Flegm, Turbith, for watry Humours, Scammony: but if more forcibly to bind, uſe the unripe Quinces with Roſes, and Acacia, or Hypociſtis, and ſome torrefied Rhubarb.

See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.

male equivalent: master