[…]the most striking and most offensive error in pronunciation among the Londoners, I confess, lies in the transpositional use of the letters W, and V[…].

Well! the King of France died pardoning & pitying all those who had tortured his Soul & Body, a great Pattern for us all.

Being only a dim gentile I could not see the slightest connection between fish and guns, until, by now getting quite angry at my stupidity she roared in my ear game-kipper (keeper), game-kipper, y'er dinderhead.

Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue /[…]/ Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then̄e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe