However, such a career limiting move is only worth while if it can be reasonably expected to succeed in changing the wrong-headed policy.

This requires a remeasure of the first level of correction for repeat three cycles […]

Toward the king, that yow honoʳ him by lookeing at vs as a distinct colonie wᵗʰin ourselves, as yow see by the præmises his majᵗʸ doth, & by restorin[g] vs to our former intire state, & oʳ members to vs in obedience to his majᵗʸ who hath comanded vs, as a distinct colonie, to serue him in weighty affaires, & wherein if yow hinder vs, (as yow will if yow still wᵗʰhould our members from vs, as much as in yow lieth,) yow will incurr his majᵗⁱᵉˢ just & high displeasure, who hath not giuen yow in yoʳ pattent the least appearance of a just ground for yoʳ layeing any claime to vs.

Whenever things were getting on top of me over the year to come - the birds not showing, the distances too vast, the weather and the fatigue too overwhelming - I would think back to that anoraked figure quivering with derision and use the image of his smirking mug to keep going, determined that one day I would bump into him and quietly say, `I did it.'