...wouldst show thy love to thy king and country, let's have no drinking, no riot, no bonfires; but ... 'Study to be quiet, work with your own hands, and mind your own business.'" And Tom, who has become the model More wishes all those troublemakers would turn into,...

...let's have no drinking. no riot. no bonfires.' Instead. as the parson instructed them. they are to 'Study to be quiet. work with your own hands and mind your own business.'77 With this dismissal of the more raucous manifestations of Jobn Bullism. More ended her...

...gives way in the end to Jack's less nostalgic and subtly revisionist, though still scriptural, motto: "Study to be quiet, work with your own hands, and mind your own business" (WHM i: 347—8). 9 The phrase belies the historical inertia of one of Jack's own earlier...