UNCONSCIOUS OR UNINTENTIONAL PUNS.
Elizabeth’s sylvan dress was therefore well suited at once to her height and to the dignity of her mein, which her conscious rank and long habits of authority had rendered in some degree too masculine to be seen to the best advantage in ordinary female weeds.—Kenilworth, iii. 9.
I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal
That it may seem their guilt.—Macbeth.
While underneath the eaves
The brooding swallows cling,
As if to show their sunny backs
And twit me with the spring.—Song of the Shirt.