who turns a Persian tale for half a crown

No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

Ancient cities, on the other hand, were fortresses based upon technologies of obstruction designed to freeze and arrest such dromospheric assaults with battlements, turrets, archers, moats, parapets, bastions, etc.

The latter clause, however, relieves the dilemma in which I should otherwise find myself involved; for I was far from attempting the performance of what the witty Dean Swift once coined a sexasyllabic word for, viz.: ‘sermonification.’