Careful Words

knee (n.)

A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree;

Oh willow, willow, willow!

With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee,

Oh willow, willow, willow!

Thomas Percy (1728-1811): Willow, willow, willow.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee

Where thrift may follow fawning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.