And a couple marrying at age 65 today can look forward to their tin anniversary, or at least 10 years of marriage.

The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.

Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.

Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved, Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw, Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.