(1) What varlet hath done such a blight upon our fair Empire?(2) I will go and fright the varletry with my presence, and secure, I trust, a horse for Your Majesty, and one for myself.(3) Even among those who rank, at least by economic criteria, as middle-class, the most proximate precedent for their dress style is that of medieval varlets .(4) The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry , the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy.