maidenliest

Updated: May 7, 2025

And so it would, as Shakspeare says, "if my mother's cat had kittened. My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and treacherous. Tut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled at my bastardizing."

An Oxonian - Thaumaturgia