Before the dore ſat ſelfe-conſuming Care, Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, For feare leaſt Force or Fraud ſhould vnaware Breake in[…]

she gave him a sneck posset

1994, Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters, Steven C. Hause (editors), Feminisms of the Belle Epoque: A Historical and Literary Anthology, University of Nebraska Press.

Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.