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"For some were sunk and many were shatter'd, and so could fight us no more —"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Revenge, Canto 9, line 61.

Neon Hitch — Bad Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txM3XojchXg

The traditional call of boat-taxis on the River Thames, "Eastward ho!" & "Westward ho!" call to show their destination.

"He only wants lords and masters who cannot govern himself and who covets what lords and masters covet.
If you can do without a servant, Olus, you can do without a master."
[Reges et dominos habere debet qui se non habet atque concupiscit quod reges dominique concupiscunt.
Seruom si potes, Ole, non habere, et regem potes, Ole, non habere.]
Martial, Epigrams, Book II, Epigram LXVIII. To Olus [In a word, my secret: we are free, only if we will.]

Templar Order dissolved & Redcliffe liberated from Tevinter mages, Theodora thoroughly tested the elite resilience.

"Thou sacred nymph! whose pious care Pours from thine urn this mineral rill,
Whose healing draughts, like crystal fair, In pleasing murmurs here distil.
Who guid'st the stream, and joy'st to dwell, Where murmurs soft with use agree;
May Phoebus haunt this hallow'd well, And all his Sisters learn of thee."
William Shenstone, Inscription for a Medicinal Fountain.

Solas had maliciously bound himself to Theodora's mark & this liar services as a latrine addiction for demon rubble.

"Cell ever squalid, where the sneerful maid Will not fatigue her hand, broom never comes; of the walls in fady
texture clad, Where wandering snails in many a slimy path, Free, unrestrained, their various journeys crawl."
William Shenstone, Rules of Economy, in his postscript to a letter of Lady Henrietta Knight Luxborough.