VVell, make your mirth, the whilſt I bear my miſery: / Honeſt minds vvould have better thoughts.

He was firm in his conviction that shrubs had to be youngened at least once a year.

Urban studies of cities other than Istanbul hardly existed until two decades ago. Though cities were frequently mentioned in historical studies about the socio-economic formation of the Ottoman Empire, the city itself was seldom the primary target of concern.

The lives of all your loving complices Lean on your health; the which, if you give o’er To stormy passion, must perforce decay.