All that was about what you should do in a full-handed hold 'em game when you're the small blind versus a big blind. But, suppose instead that the game is two-handed from the get go.

mighty horns of ale, and cups of gold afoam / With strong nut-coloured mead

It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.

Where specimens have appeared to me to be new, I have ventured, although with extreme diffidence, to nomenclate them.