Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are An Excelente Balade of Charitie, written in the rhyme royal; and The Bristowe Tragedie, in the common ballad stanza.

The Indo-Aryan languages or macrolanguages of the plains merge into each other, being on the local level made up of enormous dialect continua (e.g. PANJABI-HINDI-BIHARI-RAJASTHANI-PAHARI). ¶ These fluid ‘macrolanguages’ (indicated by capital letters, e.g. HINDI) may have “dialects” which are mutually unintelligible and hard to classify.

Essex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favour, and restored the other officers to their command.

Those soap - opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?