A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism.

He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.

[Jupiter] whiche by his goodnes as Marcianus ſaieth, abateth the malice of Saturne. Therfore the Poets faine, that he did put his father out of his kingdome, Iſidore writeth as he abateth the malice of the euill Planets, […]

Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.