The medicine made him groggy and irritable.

I came up the ladder carefully, holding the bucket in my right hand.

The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.

If this is not actually illegal, it certainly appears to be a sharp practice.