Where Thetis handmaids still in that recoursefull deepe With those rough Gods of Sea, continuall revells keepe;

The workman in charge was called Eamonn Breen. He said that there were two 'n's in Eamonn. 'I'm called after Eamon de Valera,' Eamon said. 'And he's the Taoiseach.' 'Yes, and he's wrong,' Eamonn Breen said. 'You're nor Fianna Fáil', he said. Eamonn Breen later told his father what had happened and they both laughed.

Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline.

A winetrough is Verdun, Desainliens. Apparently from this passage, the distillation process of the grape juice in the winetrough has gone too far, and the thickening liquid is almost to the consistency of jelly!!