Lisa: I don’t think it would be going too far out on a limb to say that wellnigh every adult male nurses, in his innermost secret heart, a desire to be able to deal with his woman problems the way Bluff King Hal dealt with his. There have been a couple of women of whom I could not sincerely swear that, if I had at some point had the power to have them decapitated by process of law, I would have refrained from giving the order. No names, no pack drill.

(Though I understand that psycho-historians have tagged Hal as sexually timid, which seems to me plausible. He certainly, by her own testimony, didn’t do much for Catherine Howard before he sent her to the block.)