The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.
[T]he exspected long looked for houre … was now come; for that she was lapidable and ripe for man, and that all the time thenceforth she should continue a forst chastity, would be little or no cost, except what was expended in oatmeal or loam: Ventricia cheared up her self, well contented with so easie and beneficial a cure.
There, Peggy speaks for every angry marginalised person who’s ever been sealioned or tone-policed in a disagreement.
And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.
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