I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath, On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain. And of that false Coſroe, my traiterous brother, Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d? And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?

a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day

The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.

Crisp little men aswagger with assets.