The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species.

Love, that fulfilleth his heart with glee, / Love, that freighteth his breast with sighs, / Love that must madden both you and me:— […]

Pending future revelations, I'm going to assume that the present is like the past, and that this is more of the same old same-old.

The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.