Purple shoots had grown up from the wheat seeds sown in the furrows. He fell to his knees and dug up a radish. There was a sound like a bubble popping as the thin roots parted from the earth.

His hat adorned with wings disclosed the god, And in his hand he bore the sleep-compelling rod; Such as he seemed, when, at his sire’s command, On Argus’ head he laid the snaky wand.

This Edward […] staked his honour against a cogger of dice, and was presently tricked out of three thousand guineas […] .

that Earldom devolved, and the later, our foreremembered Philip, who left her inheritance to her only daughter Jone