This is a new bell for my bicycle.

And now giue me leaue[…]to assure my sealf, that your lordships and the rest, duely considering my deportment, and his lordship’s expressions, which being so publick amount to a reprehension, will adiudge me guiltlesse of any disrespectiue carriadge towards him, and consequently vnmeriting so neglectfull an expostulation, and from a transgressing any the orders of that high court of parlament, whose approbation I esteeme more then rewards for any seruice I can doe.

The entrance hall was wide and long, walls sporting an assortment of really ugly and very old portraits of previous dukes and duchesses engaged in dukely and duchessly pursuits—mainly sitting in uncomfortable-looking chairs, gazing with almost pained expressions off into the distance.

On her soft axle, white she paces even, / And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.