Gómez Ortega... explicitly ordered them to study only fresh plants, in situ, to draw every part, and 'to copy nature exactly without presuming to correct it or decorate it as some draughtsmen are used to doing, adding colours and ornaments drawn from their imagination'.

The king armed his knights with swords and shields.

The ship put into port to water.

My love is fair, my love is gay, As fresh as been the flowers in May;