legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference […].

Occasionally, they are taken anally ('shelving').

Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.

She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.