It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the course of love, which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty gossip, which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, and counteract the tenor of circumstances most apparently propitious.

[…] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.

What is the derivation of pilm = dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives pilmy, dusty : it pilmeth. … Pillom is the full word, of which pilm is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word pylor, dust.

Nobody understands the puer aeternus and also the puella aetermiss because they are the archetypicals of eternity in time. […] The puer and puella are more like masks/roles in this respect because no one ever measures up to these standards. So most people only know the pue's by the shadow or shallow. […] And the puers and puellas don't remember anymore the ego's DIGNITY AND HONOR because they are worn out.