Now to meet this lorn maiden, Lucette had put on Her flauntiest of dresses; her blackest shoes shone Against her white stockings; her white and red gown Was tasselled with ribands, around, up and down […]

How are thou loſt, how on a ſudden loſt,

And thegħ he lang ther-to-for was ded, for drede of Iresshe-men, he was for-hold tyl Reymondes comes, & the meygnees, ynto leynestre. And though he [Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke] long before that time was dead, for fear of the Irishmen, he was forheld [his burial was held back to conceal the death] till Raymond [FitzGerald] came, with the meinies [military troops], into Leinster.]

In our mobile society, where families are often spread across the states and neighbors are strangers, eremophobia is a constant complaint.