Some of this Artfull coulour now I want, / Which from the Muses I desire to borrow, / In Melancholly Priam to dispaint / The perfect Image and true face of Sorrow, […]

I expected his new play to be as good as the last, but it was like watching paint dry.

Alford Plea. A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court. The plea is commonly used in local and state courts in the United States.

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