The very nature of the urban renaissance in Bristol was to exclude rustics from participation rather than to transform them into citified wannabes. |
Am I to continue picking up the guineas of these hard-fisted rustics? |
Still the rustics were at a loss to explain why they continued to consume non-vegetarian food. |
In Greece, rich aristocrats used gold and silver in life, while poor rustics used wooden vessels. |
At Windsor, the rustics who dance in the antimasque ask how they themselves might become gypsies. |
Won't the degenerate rustics of Sherston, so clearly in need of protection from themselves, go back to their ancient uncouth ways? |