He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings.

This is in line with sociologist Emile Durkheim's seminal study Suicide (1897 [1997]), which argued that anomie, or normlessness, could explain variations in suicide rates across countries and time.

Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.

It was a real nail biter waiting for the test results.