branches […] which were portoirs, and bare grapes

The cion overruleth the stock quite.

We know that the most deadly of the early epidemics in America were those of the eruptive fevers—smallpox, measles, typhus, and so on. The first to arrive and the deadliest, said contemporaries, was smallpox.

True blue chalcedony is uncommon and highly desirable as a lapidary material.