These restrictions meant that only a few widows could engage in formal commerce. Many more, however, can be observed operating in the ‘informal sector’, as in 1598 when a widow called ‘die Kremerin’ (‘the shopkeeperess’) was fined for having ‘bought up and regrated nuts and other foodstuffs’,[…].

The Elf turned and with deadly accuracy shot an arrow where his nose pointed him. The shaft sliced through the air, pierced the tall grass, and struck the Dwarf's shoes one hundred yards out . . . but the Dwarf was not in them!

Have you no risky songs , no indecent ballads?

there is nothing that flags the Spirits, disorders the Blood, and enfeebles the whole Body of Man, as intense Studies.