Bushel

Shakespeare was apparently then at Stratford.

To my loving good friend and countryman, Mr. William Shakespeare, loving countryman, I am bold of you as of a friend craving your help with thirty pounds upon Mr. Bushel's and my security, or Mr. Mitten's with me.

Mr. Oswell is not come to London as yet, and I have a special cause you shall friend me much in helping me out of all the debts I owe in London.

I thank God and much quiet my mind which would not be indebted.

"Be off," says the fairy, "as quick as you can Over the meadows to the little green lane That dips to the hayfields of Farmer Grimes.

I've buried those hedges a score of times; Bushel on bushel I'll promise 'ee, Jill, This side of supper, if ee pick with a will.

She glints very bright, and speaks her fair, Then lo and behold! she had faded in air.

Be sure old Goody, she trots betimes Over the meadows to Farmer Grimes.

How unfortunate for both of us that he came so soon.

Dame Bushel washes for us only one week more, as Sukey has got a place.

John Stevens' wife undertakes our purification.

She does not look as if anything she touched would ever be clean, but who knows? We do not seem likely to have any other maidservant at present, but Dame Staples will supply the place of one.

But one of the craziest quick changes I ever did was in Guys and Dolls.

I was playing Miss Adelaide, and it was literally, I don't even think it was a minute, where you had to come off from Bushel and a Peck, and the next song was a little scene that led to Adelaide's Lament.

And...

Basically, I changed everything except my pants.