Affluent societies routinely over-, under-, and misprepare without even recognizing them as failures, just as no one cares that a spice shelf holds an undisturbed jar of cream of tartar that will be a silent witness as we marry, we have children, and then our children have grandchildren who one day ask, What's that dusty bottle of white powder for, Gramps?

He became the standard-bearer for their cause because of his celebrity.

Thalias are herbaceous perennials with long-stalked, calathea- or canna-like, all-basal leaves, the stalks of which enfold each other toward their bases to produce false stems.

His fearefull freends vveare out the vvofull night, / Ne dare to vveepe, nor ſeeme to vnderſtand / The heauie hap, vvhich on them is alight, / Affraid, leaſt to themſelues the like miſhappen might.