[…] if an inverecund habit shall have gradually traduced the honourable by ancestors transmitted customs […]

It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes

The zookeeper was cajoling the lion back into its cage.