Those of the men who had swapped horses with passing drovers, without the exchange of receipts, were busy all afternoon trumping up witnesses.

Humor is the great denuder of power in most cultures. As sexuality itself is often tamed through humor, a particularly dangerous or threatening form of sexual option will be met with an especially sharp and narrowly directed focus for wit.

II.12: The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

I unstopped a bottle of wine to celebrate.