"4" . _:b6318359 "1765, William Blackstone, \u201COf the Civil State\u201D, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: [\u2026] Clarendon Press, \u2192OCLC, page 386:"@en . _:b6318357 "My noble L[ords] and Co\u017Fens all, good morrovv, / I haue beene long a \u017Fleeper, but I hope / My ab\u017Fence doth neglect no great de\u017Fignes, / VVhich by my pre\u017Fence might haue been concluded."@en . _:b6318358 . _:b6318359 . _:b6318358 "c. 1604\u20131605 (date written), William Shakespeare, \u201CAll\u2019s Well, that Ends Well\u201D, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00A0[\u2026] (First Folio), London: [\u2026] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 241, column 1:"@en . _:b6318357 . . _:b6318356 . _:b6318357 "c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third.\u00A0[\u2026] (First Quarto), London: [\u2026] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise,\u00A0[\u2026], published 1597, \u2192OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], signature G, verso:"@en . _:b6318356 "Used by a monarch to address another monarch, or a noble; specifically (Britain) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank."@en . _:b6318358 "Therefore vve meruaile much our Co\u017Fin France / VVould in \u017Fo iu\u017Ft a bu\u017Fine\u017F\u017Fe, \u017Fhut his bo\u017Fome / Again\u017Ft our borrovving prayers."@en . _:b6318359 "In all vvrits, and commi\u017F\u017Fions, and other formal in\u017Ftruments, the king, vvhen he mentions any peer of the degree of an earl, alvvays \u017Ftiles him \"tru\u017Fty and vvell beloved cou\u017Fin:\" an appellation as antient as the reign of Henry IV; vvho being either by his vvife, his mother, or his \u017Fi\u017Fters, actually related or allied to every earl in the kingdom, artfully and con\u017Ftantly acknovvledged that connexion in all his letters and other public acts; from vvhence the u\u017Fage has de\u017Fcended to his \u017Fucce\u017F\u017Fors, though the rea\u017Fon has long ago failed."@en .