He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.

Their fares across the Atlantic were paid on the understanding that when they married, their Virginian husbands would pay a bride price for them of 150 pounds of tobacco, then worth about £22 (perhaps seven years’ salary for a domestic maid).

The englyn as we know it in Canu Llywarch Hen and Elegy on Cynddylan is characterized by three lines with end rhyme.