What think you?—Chiaus'd by a scholar!

CAPTAIN: I understand, and I'll patronize you. I'll take every ticket, and pay you cash, and Jedidah shall come and see the beautiful rival. / JEDIDAH: Beautiful! She's as homely as sin.

Women on screen, as in middle-class society, tend to be physically continent, trained not to take up too much space. In contemporary parlance, we have manspreading but not womanspreading.

It is more sykyr a bryd in youre fyste Than to have thre in the sky above And more profitabyl to youre behove.