Cut with a shears using long, even strokes.

Thoᵗ he wes wicht he wes not wyss.

[…] the factual basis for such a contention is more fanciable than real.

She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of guid King James's whipping-boy, when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.