The zookeeper was cajoling the lion back into its cage.

[…] if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs […]

It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes