Mickle, an Old English word meaning "much" or "a lot," went out of fashion in the 16th century (except in Scotland, where it held on), but it has such a nice ring to it. It's sometimes spelled "muckle ...

‘A person acts what he is when he may do what he will,’ wrote a monk in Kent at some point in the first half of the 11th century. This gnomic utterance was not of his own making — the monk in question ...