...tincture, 'for thy sake,' Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and...

...partake: Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine:...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th'action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that which God doth touch and...

...degrading according to the spirit in which it was done. 'A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine' .* The enthusiasm with which English Puritan preachers took up this point shows that...

...tincture, 'For Thy sake' Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and...

...partake: Nothing can be so mean, 15 Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine: Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, 20 Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that which...

...all corrections are in ink. 3. This is a misquotation from George Herbert's poem "The Elixir" (1633): "Who sweeps a room as for Thy Laws / Makes that and th' action fine." 4. In the ms. the word "idolaters" is written and canceled before "idealists." 5. This is probably...

...the work of the Anglican clergyman and poet George Herbert: A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th 'action fine. (Herbert, 1982) In the post-war period the work element of the Protestant Ethic persisted but "consumption...