You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

Indeed, if anything, the sugary pink “princessification” of girlhood feels more extreme than ever.

Arimanios seems to be a graecicized form of Ahriman, the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.

[T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue …