and bears the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed...

“We’re doing our job if you don’t notice it,” Catherine Miller, the prop master for the series, said in a phone interview last week.

“Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener.

Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes, / And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke / The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes: