When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.

But France's deteriorating domestic situation, coupled with her diplomatic isolation, could lead the most pacific minded Frenchmen to rattle a sabre.

One of the problems of being a duke was any that number of one’s followers might get it into their head they could be duke just as well as you, and succeed to the dukedom by dukicide.

Despite their utility in research, litters produced by polyembryony lack the advantages conferred by either asexual or sexual reproduction.