Household Utensils

Household Utensils · Heading 361; source line 2620 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

The pot denotes the life; the platter the actions of life; the candlestick intends the wife; the light, or lantern, the husband; the hearth the estate; vessels of wine are the servants; the stores cupboards, and cabinets mean the wife.

Of Houshold-stuffe. · Book 1, encoded section 56 · Text transcription · marked gaps

Original source (English)

THe pots signifie the life, the platters the estate and action of the life, as also the Harth: wherefore according as such things are of base and small, made great and precious, or the contrary, so we must iudge of the things signified by them: the changing of them into better is good, into worse is ill; so also you must judge of all other houshold stuffe: the candlestick represents the wife, the light or lanthorne, the Master of the house, or the spirit of him which dreams it, or also love: the andyrons signifye the life, or as the harth▪ the estate and conversation entirely: and the wife, the table in like manner: the bedstead, and cushions and all their appurtenances, signifye the wife of him that dreams it, and all the estate of life. Vessels of wine are the ministers or servants: the tressels which bea [illegible passage] up the table, are the masters of the house, the governours, farmers, and enclosers: the garners, butteries, coffers and cabinets, signifie the wife.

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