The importance of xenomorphism and impressions for the paleoecologist is that they reveal the presence of certain soft-bodied organisms that may have served as substrates and have been critical to the establishment of communities.

Who on that day the word of onset gave.

Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.

The wofull pule, with wattir wnluflly, / Withhaldis thaim so at thai may nocht go by; / And Stix, the flude, bylappis thaim about / Nyne tymis, sa close at thai sall neuer wyn out. The woeful pool, with water unlovely, / Withholds them so that they may not go by; / And Styx, the flood, belaps them about / Nine times, so close that they shall never win out.]