She has wisely limited her treatment to the British Isles, which contain a sufficient variety of supernatural beings to satisfy the most compulsive collector of arcanities.

He must act — not speculate! — and, surrounded as we are on all sides by oppressional circumstances, all of which appear to be attempting to overwhelm us, we must be armed at all points for the encounter.

She doth tell me where to borrow / Comfort in the mid’ſt of ſorrow; Makes the deſolateſt place / To her preſence be a grace; / And the blackeſt diſcontents / Be her faireſt ornaments.

, come back to bite in the ass