True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.

The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers. The third, to twenty-four spearmen and twelve whipcrackers. No other headmen are allowed the honour of having whipcrackers.

I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.

I’d arrived at Heaven nightclub, underneath the Charing Cross railway arches, on a hot Sunday afternoon to find my friends had already gone in – you didn’t risk hanging back and missing your chance – so I joined the queue of kids dressed in the acid house uniform of Day-Glo dungarees and smiley T-shirts.