A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

Base bullion for the stamp’s sake we allow.

Marlowe, Hero and Leander. First Sestyad.

For alchymy, though’t make a glorious gloss,

Compared with gold is bullion or base dross.

William Hodgson, Verses on Ben Jonson.

Words, whilom flourishing,

Pass now no more, but, banished from the court,

Dwell with disgrace among the vulgar sort;

And those which eld’s strict doom did disallow,

And damn for bullion, go for current now.