ploughboy

The ploughboy understood them very well, for to have only a hunch of bread and little or no cheese was often his own case.

Therefore if I were to do what was rude and dishonest, people would say: 'What could you expect of a ploughboy?'

It made the birds sing, and the ploughboy whistle, and the old folk toddle into their gardens to smell the herbs.

He was to take the lad as a ploughboy, and there he was to serve three years without wages.