The Lords Temporal carried them to the verge of license.

Majesty itself must have its Royal quibble.

'Ye be burly, my Lord of Burleigh,' said Queen Elizabeth, 'but ye shall make less stir in our realm than my Lord of Leicester.' The gravest wisdom and the highest breeding lent their sanction to the practice.

Lord Bacon playfully declared himself a descendant of 'Og, the King of Bashan.

Sir Philip Sidney, with his last breath, reproached the soldier who brought him water, for wasting a casque full upon a dying man.