...intention to burn my lines." 1692-4, R. L'Estrange Fables V. (1714) 5, " "Tis the fate of all Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes." 1589, Nashe, Pref. to Green's Menaphon (Arb.) 8, " The . . . perusing of our Gothamists barbarisme."...