washerwoman and piece-worker, of Kuttenberg
“I am an honest spinster who scrubs until her hands are raw just to pay the rent, and I only ask for what is rightfully mine.”
Things Sibyl Bauer had written, latest first, with the glosses of her neighbours.
the second day of May, at None
I asked Beatrice to carry a message to my sister Zlata near Czaslau to let her know I am still alive, and she flatly refused. I have no family here, and the people in this town would see you starve before doing a simple favour.
the eve of St George, at Compline
Betty Weaver is demanding her bone-carved weaving die back. I kept it as a lawful pledge, for she ruined a good batch of my linen thread! I simply cannot be expected to hand over her tool until Vendula returns my quills. I am being robbed on all sides!
Give me my die back! It has nothing to do with Vendula's soldier or your quills.
I only meant to keep it until my own livelihood is restored to me.
Nota scribaeShe asked me to write 'righteous pledge' twice, but I refused.
Easter Sunday, at Sext
The landlords in this town are bleeding us dry. With all these refugees from the burnt villages, they think they can charge what they like for a dark room. I work from first light to dusk and still barely scrape together enough for rent and cheap pottage.
If you spent less time complaining and more time spinning, you might afford a better room.
the Monday after St Gregory, at Prime
Mabel Eldris is exhausting my ears fretting over some vow to walk barefoot to Sedletz she made in the plague scare of ninety-nine. That was four years ago! The vow is long expired, Mabel. Save your breath and your soles.
The Lord does not forget a vow just because you are tired of hearing about it.
Candlemas, at Vespers
I only meant to do a Christian kindness when I lent my best imported goose quills to Vendula Taylor so she could write to that wastrel Jan. Now the girl refuses to give them back, claiming they were a gift for helping with the laundry baskets. They were a loan!
You gave them to me, Sibyl! I broke my back carrying those wet heavy linens up the hill for you.
A loan, Vendula! I only meant to let you use them once. I would pay twenty groschen to a man to fetch them back.
Nota scribaeDictated at the wash-tubs. She pointed her finger at me the entire time.
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I am a maidservant, Sibyl, not a messenger. Czaslau is miles away and the roads are full of soldiers!