Under the tropic is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
-- Edmund Waller (1605-1687)
-- Upon the Death of the Lord Protector
YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name _jugum_, we owe
one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that
defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy....