to trade barbs

Otherwise, anyone who opposes incest is an incestophobe and an opponent of bestiality is damned a zoophobe. This is hardly mature debate. Nonetheless, the government addressed this issue with more objectivity and sense.

The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.

After wich [the] King ascendit the stage, attendit by diuers of the pryme officers and nobilitie, the queir singing, Te Deum laudamus; wich being endit, the Archbischope did inthronize the King, …