Three score and ten

• three score and ten: the span of a life, seventy years, as given in the Bible: Psalms 90:10. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."

• three score and ten: Mardrus: Le Koran, 22: 'l'exégèse musulmane admet que chaque mot du Livre possède soixante-dix significations' ('Muslim exegesis accepts that every word of the Book possesses seventy meanings') → one for each year of a man's life (see Psalm ref above) → sytty in line 19 below, Mardrus text also ref → a bone, a pebble, a ramskin