Huswifery An Electronic Edition Edward Taylor 1642-1729 Header creation by Ralph Bauer Encoded by Ralph Bauer 4 kb taylor_huswifery.xml Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
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 The poetical works of Edward Taylor. Edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas H. Johnson. New York, Rockland editions, 1939.

This poem was completed ca. 1685but not published until 1939 in New York.

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 English Poetry Verse Lyrical 1650-1700 New_England Puritans Huswifery Make me, O Lord, thy Spin[n]ing Wheele compleat; Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee. Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate, And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee. My Conversation make to be thy Reele, And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele. Make me thy Loome then, knit therein this Twine: And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, winde quills: Then weave the Web thyselfe. The yarn is fine. Thine Ordinances make my Fulling Mills. Then dy the same in Heavenly Colours Choice, All pinkt with Varnish't Flowers of Paradise. Then cloath therewith mine Understanding, Will, Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory; My Words and Actions, that their shine may fill My wayes with glory and thee glorify. Then mine apparell shall display before yee That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory.