[net.women] Unintentional wordplay

ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (01/17/84)

dartvax!tomj (Thos. Johnston) writes:

>..During the reign of Edward III of England, treason was defined to include
>having sexual relations with the sovereign's wife, the wife of the sovereign's
>eldest son, or the sovereign's eldest daughter unmarried.  The purpose, of
>course, was to protect the line of decent.

                                    ^^^^^^
Amusing.  (Also interesting.)

Mark Brader