The improvement in outcomes in the second trial could be a result of using different chemotherapy agents, such as platinum-based regimens, which are known to be more effective for squamous cell carcinoma than hydroxyuria and 5-fluorouracil.

Now, mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe: Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world That ever was prince’s child. Happy what follows!

Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father.

It could have been from this poem that Geoffrey derived Avalon and the magical sword Caliburn, and Robert de Boron took his idea for the Holy Grail; both writers making attempts to medievalise ancient, mythological concepts.