The monks grow large quantities of artichokes, lettuce, and fennochio; and interspersed among the beds of vegetables are orange and other fruit trees, and little trellises of cane, wreathed with the young, downy leaves of the vine.

A business suit and briefcase help her to come across as the competent professional she is.

For one day, when amusing herself with this whim The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

Causing blindness to one's own faults, self-love ultimately generates self-flattery, according to Plutarch's discussion.