[W]hy in a moment looke to ſee / The blind and bloody Souldier, with foule hand / Deſire the Locks of your ſhrill-ſhriking Daughters: / Your Fathers taken by the ſiluer Bears, / And their moſt reuerend Heads daſht to the Walls: / Your naked Infants ſpitted vpon Pykes, / Whiles the mad Mothers, with their howles confus'd, / Doe breake the Clouds, … / What ſay you? Will you yeeld, and thus auoyd? / Or guiltie in defence, be thus destroy'd.

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

] The customer must not, in payment, issue cheques totalling / ] more than L500 on any single day. / ] / ] This says what the two examples say but avoids their employment of / ] telegraphese. / But perhaps drifting from telegraphese into presumptuosity. How about: Customers may of course issue all the cheques they want, but our policy does not permit us to honour cheques for more than 500 GBP per customer per day. We regret any inconvenience that this policy may cause.

In front of children on their parents' shoulders, fashionably dressed teenage Tumblrites, and several pockets of breakdancing troupes set up directly on the Yonge-Dundas blacktop, he demonstrated the bag of performance tricks that have bolstered his reputation.