I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

She genned him up on all manner of trivialities.

O let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.

In this way, the salaryman was both a progressive social stratum and an intellectual class.