But ah my corage cooles ere it be warme, / For thy, content vs in thys humble ſhade: / Where no ſuch troublous tydes han vs aſſayde, / Here we our ſlender pipes may ſafely charme.

[The old man] stood grinning like a gnome, obviously delighted to watch me flush and ruffle and then gradually unflush and unruffle.

A sort of pistol, called a dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts.

Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.