I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden, […]

[T]he holly providentially planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.

The Carthaginians, in the Roman view, were treacherous fellows. Punica fides (Punic faith) became Latin for double-dealing.

Within the Frater-house Door, on the Left Hand at entering, is a strong Almery in the Wall, wherein a great Mazer, called the Grace Cup, stood, which every Day served the Monks after grace, to drink out of round the Table; which cup was finely edged about with Silver, and double gilt.