I'm back from several days of vacation and a day or two of pure laziness. For your patience you are subjected to my imagined 404 error message:
THE PAGE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR CANNOT BE ENTREATED TO MANIFEST
Oh ho! Looking to entreat, are you? I thought so. "Entreat" entered our language as early as 1340, rolling down to us from Old French entraiter, although its more familiar connotation of imploring did not gain common usage until the early 1500s. Think about it. Five hundred years we've been entreating things, and you can't even get this page to manifest with a simple entreaty. I think you're using the word incorrectly, is what I think.
Please try the following:
Present your entreaty before a local magistrate, bailiff or mayor.
Doublecheck to ensure that your entreaty to manifest is not a manifest entreaty, in the sense of being "caught in a reprehensible action" (c. 1380, from L. manifestus).
Some web sites are forbidden by sumptuary law from being viewed by people who are below the rank of thane or confined to debtor's prison. Windows can check your sumptuary status for you if you wish.
Measures may have been taken by the local bailiff, mayor, or county palatine to counter the outrageous greatness of web pages which have alate crept into the internet. Sites which display an unseemly number of animated GIFs, a profusion of tables, an ostentatious display of Flash or a deliberate flaunting of bandwidth will be blocked from your manifestly common browser.
The site you are attempting to access may have a purple background. This is forbidden, exceping only the King, Queen, King's mother, children, brethren, and sisters, uncles and aunts; and excepting dukes, marquises, and earls, who may display the same in tables, borders, and only within one frame, if said frame does not exceed more than three thumbs' width of the page; and those of the Garter, purple in borders only. Those inferior in rank will be hanged from the neck until dead, or, if they remain silent at their arraignment, will be pressed to death by huge weights laid upon a board, that lieth over their breast, and a sharp stone under their back.
Active Server Pages (*.asp) place an undue burden on the Royal Servers, for which webmasters have been accorded the greatest and most grievous punishment used for such an offense against the State: drawing from the prison to the place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same purpose.
