Is ſhe not proud? doth ſhe not count her bleſt, / Vnworthy as ſhe is, that we haue wrought / So worthy a Gentleman to be her Bride?

The birdlike female vendors speak only if spoken to, except when softly singsonging in a dialect that sounds like Navajo.

a proclamation of Henry III., […] doubtless circular throughout England

Isildur would not surrender [The Ruling Ring] to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. … ‘This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?’