Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,
      Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.
      Stain'd with the variation of each soil
      Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;
      And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.
      The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:
      Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
      Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
      On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took
      Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son
      To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,
      Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:
      And is not this an honourable spoil?
      A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?
- from First Part of Henry IV, William Shakespeare aka Francis Bacon

Now, what follows the "two and twenty" knights? Balk'd in their own blood. B and b: 2 and 2. Thus, the two and twenty knights called forth immediately another 22.