Careful Words

yoke (n.)

yoke (v.)

Under the tropic is our language spoke,

And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Edmund Waller (1605-1687): Upon the Death of the Lord Protector.

  Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.