The Sidney of the civic humanist school had his mind firmly set on its tyrannophobe rhetoric which defined liberty above all in terms of the absence of tyranny or a tyrannical threat and equated tyrannical rule with the rule of vice and corruption.

tail male — limitation to male heirs

a spanking pace

A lease , or rather bargain and sale , upon some pecuniary consideration , for one year , is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee