That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, …

My life is so hectic these days that I don't know whether I'm coming or going.

...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm.

She could be a straight cissy who just had a bunch of plastic surgery done, Tabitha said. A cissy was a 'cisgendered' person, someone who wasn't transsexual, someone happy with being and dressing like whatever gender they were born as.