She took the coleworts which her husband got
From his own ground (a small well-water’d spot);
She stripp’d the stalks of all their leaves; the best
She cull’d, and then with handy care she dress’d.

— John Dryden Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)

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