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A TIGHT BOOT. |
The gall of love consists in
First. Tight boots, in which it is often necessary to do penance before our Lady’s window. This is at all events very galling.
Secondly. In lover’s sighs, to which it communicates their peculiar bitterness.
Thirdly. Another very galling thing in love is being cut out.
Fourthly. Love is one of the passions treated of by Gall and Spurzheim.
Adjectives and substantives govern an ablative case, signifying the cause and the form, or the manner of a thing, as
Demosthenes vociferatione raucus erat:
Demosthenes was hoarse with bawling.
Nomine grammaticus, re barbarus: