Edmond aþelstones broþer · after him was king · / Godmon & doutede · god þoru alle þing · Edmund, Æthelstan's brother · / after him was king · / [He was a] good man and feared · God through all things ·]

[John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors.

And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others.

He was a paddlefoot undeniably, and it seemed that I might have spared myself any worry about a hero's death. Still, I could never quite get rid of the lurking notion that he was marked for sudden and outlandish extinction.