I forgette to tel you what a stirre he keepes against dumbe ministers, and neuer writes nor talkes of them, but hee calleth them minstrels, […]
Used as an insulting pun for minister (“person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church”).
God redden your pale blood!
But as for the Congress, I think the main reason a representative of working- or lower-middle-class Americans supports this kind of tax cut is that they hope to get campaign contributions from the ultra-rich.
He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
