[He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

VVhat villaine, doſt ſtrike me? I ſweare by the rood, As I am Iacke Strawe, thou ſhalt buy it with thy blood.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIVth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COORDINATION CHEMISTRY / TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA / JUNE 22-28, 1972

Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!