to suspect the truth of a story

[…] which being doubled at the angle, makes up the Letter χ, that is the Emphaticall decussation, or fundamentall figure.

Oh! not the visioned poet in his dreams, / […] / So bright, so fair, so wild a shape / Hath ever yet beheld, […]

Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists.