Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls.

So paired, so suited in their minds and persons, That they were framed the tallies for each other.

I got completely rat-arsed last night, and ended up tied naked to a lamp post. I'm not going to do that again.

Common in the north and west of Yorkshire, laithe-houses are farmsteads in which the combined byre and barn (the laithe) was constructed as an elongated extension of the dwelling, with which it shares the same roof.