Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. It hasn't all been beer and skittles, he says dryly.

Would-be gags from would-be gagsters. And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.

PLEASE it your highness to be advertised that this present morning came unto prior Thomas unto his cell wherein I am lodged, the emperor’s great ambassador, accompanied with a great many gentlemen of Spayne, and demanded of him how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only enlessen and elevate the pope’s authority, but also was noyful and odious to all realms Cristenyd.

the completement of satire by the Romans