From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (IV: 4):
SOMERSET:
It is too late; I cannot send them now:
This expedition was by York and Talbot
Too rashly plotted: all our general force
Might with a sally of the very town
Be buckled with …buckled: encountered; To give way; collapse
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
Filed under: language & literature, word of the day