semants

Updated: January 26, 2026

This sweating sicknesse, was a disease that a man then might catch and neuer goe to a hothouse. Many masters desire to haue such semants as would worke till they sweate againe, but in those dayes he that sweat neuer wrought againe.

Thomas Nash - The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton: With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse