His silly questions are really getting on my wick.

They ſay here, […] that ye deſired not the king and England to agree, becauſe it would rack the noblemen, […] I anſwered in your name that I was aſſured you had never ſpoken it. Mr. Archibald [Douglas] is the ſpeaker of it, who I aſſure your lordſhip has been a poiſon in this matter, for they lean very mickle to his opinion.

Nothing subministrates apter matter to be converted into pestilent Seminaries than peoples steams and breaths.

You were very fussy about books not getting 'scrunged'. If a book had an even slightly damaged or tatty cover, you wouldn't buy it.