[…] we whisper, for fear our over-thwart Neighbours
Should hear us cry, Liberty, and betray us to the Government.

He had pass’d two or three Acts of Parliament, which had much lessen’d the Authority and Dependence of the Nobility, and great Men, and incens’d, and dispos’d them proportionably to cross, and oppose any Proposition, which would be most grateful; and that overthwart humour was enough discover’d to rule in the breasts of many, who made the greatest professions.

For when a Gyant’s slain in fight,
And mow’d orethwart, or cleft downright,
It is a heavy case, no doubt,
A man should have his Brains beat out,
Because he’s tall, and has large Bones;

… they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.

We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall
Their round proportion embracing all.
But yet their various and perplexed course,
Observ’d in divers ages doth enforce
Men to finde out so many Eccentrique parts,
Such divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts,
As disproportion that pure forme. […]

[…] entrance, and access on all sides, by the felling of huge Trees overthwart one another, was quite barr’d up;

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