I was continued here till I was eight years old, when I was terrified with news that the magistrates (as I think they called them) had ordered that I should go to service. I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it (that is, to be a servant), though I was so young; and I told my nurse, as we called her, that I believed I could get my living without going to service, if she pleased to let me; for she had taught me to work with my needle, and spin worsted, which is the chief trade of that city, and I told her that if she would keep me, I would work for her, and I would work very hard.
Je continuai là jusqu'à l'âge de huit ans, quand je fus terrifiée par la nouvelle que les magistrats (je crois qu'on les nommait ainsi) avaient donné l'ordre de me mettre en service; je ne pouvais faire que bien peu de chose, où qu'on m'envoyât, sinon aller en course, ou servir de souillon à quelque fille de cuisine; et comme on me le répétait souvent, j'en pris une grande frayeur; car j'avais une extrême aversion à entrer en service, comme ils disaient, bien que je fusse si jeune; et je dis à ma nourrice que je croyais pouvoir gagner ma vie sans entrer en service, si elle voulait bien me le permettre; car elle m'avait appris à travailler de mon aiguille et à filer de la grosse laine, qui est la principale industrie de cette ville, et je lui dis que si elle voulait bien me garder, je travaillerais bien fort.