A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

But the writer's role there is not simply one of inhabitant, but also one of diagnostician, critic, and reimaginer.

The marquesse then of Monferrato, a citye in Italy, beynge a gentleman of great prowesse and valiance, was appointed to transfrete the seas in a generall passage made by the Christians, wyth an huge armie and great furniture.

He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.