I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden, […]
Within the Frater-house Door, on the Left Hand at entering, is a strong Almery in the Wall, wherein a great Mazer, called the Grace Cup, stood, which every Day served the Monks after grace, to drink out of round the Table; which cup was finely edged about with Silver, and double gilt.
The Carthaginians, in the Roman view, were treacherous fellows. Punica fides (Punic faith) became Latin for double-dealing.
Punica fides
Punic faith
[T]he holly providentially planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.
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