A quiet life

He kills six or seven dozen Scots at breakfast, washes his hands and says to his wife “Fie upon this quiet life! I want work!” 1 Henry 4 4:2

Rumor

Rumor, who loves to spice big bowls of the false with a pinch of the true, — Ovid

In this humour

In this humour, which was none of the sweetest, she came into the room where Honour was debating with herself in the manner we have above related. Honour no sooner saw her, than she addressed her in the following obliging phrase: “Soh, madam, I find we are to have the...