The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

because it was a work neither of necessity nor of

piety,

And strictly prohibited her servants from amusing themselves,

or indeed doing anything at all except dusting

the drawing-rooms, cleaning the boots and shoes,

cooking the dinner, waiting generally on the family,

and making the beds.

But Blake even went farther than that, and said that, on

Sundays, people should do their own works of necessity,