A year since I strained my eyes very severely, and have never dared to use them much since by gaslight.

I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.

Beyond the archway the tiltyard gallery led to the disguising house ‘ordained to be made for pastime and to do solace to strangers, the preparements of an house called the long house to be furnished of work of pleasure for revels of disguising and masking’.

As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.