For a Nachleben of the Satyrica which has been potent for many centuries we must look first to writers in Italy and France: […]

why such setting up with corks, straitening with whalebones; why is it but, as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?

There is a dip in the road ahead.

The sign in the window advertised a room for rent.