And whan Arthur saw the noblenesse of thys chambre, and specyally of this bedde he had great plesure to behold it and sayd to him selfe how that at all aduentures he wold lye downe on the bedde, and not to ferre for anye drede of death […]
She was skinny and white, slight, with a drawn-in pale face, huge round unmakeupped eyes, and puffy cheeks that gave creases to her shriveled, no lipped mouth.
Age has blanched his hair.
A late Ming gazetteer for Hsiao-kan county in Hupeh province observed, after listing abuses in the assessment and exaction of various levies, that 'people living in the villages have to provide twice as much as those who live in towns, and those in economically distressed circumstances provide twice as much again as the [ordinary] countryfolk'.
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