American are perhaps more obsessed with the idea of royalty than our long-lost British brothers; our taste for anything royal, never satiated in a true democracy, manifests itself in the canonising of celebrities and their families and mass idealisation of political dynasties like the Kennedys.

When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.

He was dismaryed, and maryed agayne to another gentylwoman.

I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.