Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […]

And we do hereby Recognize and Acknowledge, That Their Majeſties William and Mary, are, and as of Right they ought to be by the Laws of the Realm of England, our Leige Lord and Lady, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, &c.

... Now there is this idea that trade is entirely controlled by governments, that no trade takes place unless governments agree with each other. Well, b******s...

‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.