drudgery

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

   “What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.”

   “I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.”

   “I was prickt wel enough before, and you could haue let me alone, my old dame will be vndone now for one to doe her husbandrie, and her drudgery, you need not to haue prickt me, there are other men fitter to go out then I.”

   “Here he met with a Drudgerie almoſt invincible, and if we add the Task to the Time, it is enough to make a Man old.”

   “In the coarſe Drudgeries, and Sinks of Senſe, / Your Souls have quite worn out the Make of Heav'n, / By Vice new-caſt, and Creatures of your own: […]”