the Geneuian Aldermanshippe began vnder the lawe, and was practised under the Gospell

Ah, my boy, you forget the card index! Librarians invented that soothing device for the febrifuge of their souls...

Year by year they will find her with even thinner hair, sharper shoulders, drabber cheeks; and he, looking upon her with the forgiveness of complete indifference, will say to himself, She is bad, and she is ugly; I was well rid of her!

to dig up evidence