hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy.

No matter how purposeful we are, skillful we may become, or successful others may say we are, nothing will ever outsatisfy the love and companionship with God that is always available to us.

I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me.

The archontes’ resistance to the Venetians arose far more from a sense of threatened hegemony than from a sense of national violation, as evidenced in part by the Greek nobles’ inability ever to unite in coalition against the occupiers. Their anger instead arose out of their being dispossessed of their lands and status. In the process of consolidating their hold of the island, the Venetian authorities had confiscated all the land that had belonged to the Byzantine imperial fisc and to the Greek archontes.