I had some sixscore Rivals, they all took Snuff; that is, were angryat which I smiled;they were incensed; at which I laught, ha, ha, ha,i'faith; they rag'd, Iwhen I met 'em,Cockt, thusen passantjustled 'emthus,[Overthrows Fran.]

What, on all the sixscore, my Lord? Guil.

Hold, hold, my Lord, I am none of the sixscore.

But he must rely wholly upon people; and therefore advised him to sail over with all possible speed into Cornwall; which accordingly he did, having in his company four small barks, with some sixscore or sevenscore fighting men.

In the meantime the mark at which they were to shoot was set up at sixscore paces distance.

"An oak, sixscore pence.

Threescore and more of the towns-people are slain, sixscore are led away at the horses' sides, bound with ropes, to be handed over to the infantry for keeping.

"Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored ... and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" The moral marvel of Nineveh's general repentance on the preaching of an obscure Jew is as unnatural as the physical marvel of the fish story.