To scour the pewter. To do one’s work.
“But if she neatly scour her pewter,
Give her the money that is due tʹ her.”
King: Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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