Careful Words

liege (n.)

liege (adj.)

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;

Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,

The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,

Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.