Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

The husbandman ought not, for one unthankful year, to forsake the plough;

Ben Jonson. Bartholomew Fair (1614)

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We have sacred books, some three thousand thick volumes, said to be written by inspiration of Death himself, whom no mortal has ever seen, but who is described by our priests as having the figure of a fat young man with a red face and wearing an affable smile. In art he is commonly represented in the costume of a husbandman sowing seeds.

Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1

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It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner. It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)