Sayers won first blood by cutting Crouch's right eye, and the battle by knocking his man out with a nose-ender in 12 minutes 28 seconds, 6 rounds being fought.

The whole country is full of interest, and even to this date Alexander [the Great]'s route through it to the Indus, and beyond that river to the Jhelum may be traced by a careful and knowledgeful explorer.

[…] were it not for shame, Shame and dishonour to a soldier’s name, Upon my weapon’s point here shouldst thou fall, And welter in thy gore.

But at least they preserved the idea that books were important and that reading and writing were more than just a skive for people too weedy to hack at one another with swords.