“Swift as a shooting star In Autumn thwarts the night, when vapors fired Impress the air, and show the mariner From what point of his compass to beware Impetuous winds.”

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Shakespeare’s “war ’twixt will and will not,” and “letting I dare not wait upon I would.” ↩

This is Jacopo del Cassero of Fano, in the region between Romagna and the kingdom of Naples, then ruled by Charles de Valois (Charles Lackland). He was waylaid and murdered at Oriago, between Venice and Padua, by Azzone the Third of Este. ↩

Leviticus 17:2:⁠—