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Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as Bilberry— Our radiant Queen hates sluts and sluttery.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap: Where fires thou find’st unraked and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry: Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge