ouer this pott and the cyrcle hold the pentacles, and perfume them; and say deuoutly theis psalmes followynge

And I did not intend to live my life as a gaijin—not merely, like the expatriate, someone by definition permanently out of place but someone unwanted as well.

...under the present law, the averages were made up so faithfully and fairly as to prevent any jiggery-pokery.

They patch up, mop up, neaten up the halfcooked and unsatisfactory ideas they find lying around in their head.