Figulus reached a hand into his sidebag and quickly produced the waxed tablet containing the authorisation one of the legate's clerks had drawn up the previous evening at the marching camp on Vectis.

The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.

That treated well, of a full noble story Of the doubty waye, to the tower perillous Howe a noble knight, shoulde winne the victory Of many a serpent, fowle and odious

Once, and once only, I rebelled against my enforced hermitship, and we had a grand quarrel upon the subject.