Word: dothings
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...Such self-righteous, moral indignation -methinks the masses doth protest too much...
...walks to the Swan tavern to meet Sarah Udall, recording his aims, in bastard French, to "kiss and see mamelles...comgram plaisir." He reports to the royal council on the victualing of the fleet, and is complimented by "the King afterward, who doth now know me so well, that he never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business...
...Politics was gone: as the states were called to declare their votes, delegation chairmen delivered their traditional commercials. Delaware was "the home of corporations, chickens, chemicals and charisma"; California was "the state that began the lettuce boycott"; North Carolina was "the summerland where the sun doth shine...
...lesser men, courage has often been a means to lesser ends. "Who gets wealth that puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble...
...counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine...