Careful Words

ounce (n.)

ounce (v.)

  Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.

  I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

Thomas B Macaulay (1800-1859): History of England. Vol. i. Chap. i.