Careful Words

duke (n.)

Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt,

The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,

The Douglas in red herrings.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): Alnwick Castle.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?

So may you blame some fair and crystal river

For that some melancholic, distracted man

Hath drown'd himself in 't.

John Webster (1578-1632): The White Devil. Act iii. Sc. 2.