5.He decided that he would abjure all Milesian and Arabian methods of entertainment, and subscribe to Mudie's for a regular supply of mild and innocuous romance.
6.Whereby he is in danger to be damned; Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity And pray devoutly to the prince of hell.
7.Or he may abjure any such pattern, imposed as it were from the outside or above, and instead insist that he is merely reporting the real events that have occurred.
8.But more often than not the prose-writer has a practical aim in view, a theory to argue, or a cause to plead, and with it adopts the moralist's view that the remote, the difficult, and the complex are to be abjured.