The nature of the man, unpliably antagonistic to the world and the world's customs, might justify some such interpretation of his conduct as this.

From about the opening of the tenth century, if not from the close of the ninth, frank-tenure and gentle-tenure became identified with the tenure of the Thegn (or Dienstman) throughout English Mercia and the South-country, all who held by it acquiring the position of Twelfhyndmen, though they were not necessarily Gesithcund, or of gentle birth and descent.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity

An FA Cup disasterclass from Manchester United.