Pestilences and hungers shall be
And erthedyns in many contré.
Richard Rolle de Hampole, Pricke of Conscience, 4035.
Oon of hem roos up, Agabus bi name, and signefiede bi the spirit a greet hungur to comynge in al the world, which hungur was maad undur Claudius.—Acts xi. 28. Wiclif.
Behold the tyme commeth that I shal sende an hunger in to the earth; not the hunger of bread, nor the thyrst of water.—Amos viii. 11. Coverdale.
Husband. This, the Old Norse ‘hús-bondi,’ is much more nearly the Latin ‘paterfamilias’ than ‘vir.’ As the house, above all that of him who owns and tills the soil, stands by a wise and watchful economy, it is easy to see how ‘husband’ came to signify one who knows how prudently to spare and save.
All good husbands agree in this, That every work should have the due and convenient season.—Holland, Pliny, vol. i. p. 556.
They are too good husbands, and too thrifty of God’s grace, too sparing of the Holy Ghost, that restrain God’s general propositions, Venite omnes, Let all come, so particularly as to say that when God says all, he means some.—Donne, Sermon 33.
Thou dost thyself wise and industrious deem;
A mighty husband thou wouldst seem;