[…] What is to be done, if a Popish Bishop shall be converted to the reformed religion ; he so determines it ; That it is fit such an one, first, renounce his Popish power of sacrificing, and profess to abstain from all the superstitions and fœdities of the Romish Religion : […]

The “Y” man Americanizes the foreigner and ambitionizes the American

I placed a finger, then two, on his grundle for added pleasure.

‘That was a symple cause,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘for to sle a good knyght for seyynge well by his maystir.’