By the way, those double F's are just long S's... A typographic change which happened in the 19th century made them all short. Therefore- it is "surpasse" and "brasse." M In a message dated 6/20/97 5:18:16 AM, JCerrato at compuserve.com (Joseph Cerrato) wrote: >His face, the print would then surpaffe >All, that was ever writ in braffe >Joseph