The Arachnides or octopodal articulate animals, whose head, which is destitute of antennae, is confounded with the […]

[…]whether it bee that they bee broken winded and purſiue, or otherwiſe bitten and ſtung with venomous beaſts; in which caſes, there muſt be an injection made vp into the noſthrils, of the juice of Rue in wine.

Beneath the shadow of the First Keep was an ancient lichyard, its headstones spotted with pale lichen, where the old Kings of Winter had laid their faithful servants.

We passed through a stand of desert oaks, which are a species of casuarina and look less like an oak than a cactus.