Careful Words

loaf (n.)

loaf (v.)

Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi.

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;

She is a woman, therefore may be won;

She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.

What, man! more water glideth by the mill

Than wots the miller of; and easy it is

Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Titus Andronicus. Act ii. Sc. 1.