In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.

He thinks he's so frigging talented, but he's crap.

Redynge of olde auctours and ſtoryes my mooſt honorable lorde / I fynde that men in tyme paſte were of longer lyfe / and of more proſperous helth / thã they are nowe a daies.

The game is called a double, and you score 200 instead of 100 when your adversary does not get 100, which, in technical language, is called crossing the Rubicon.