I am in all things an enemy of the narrow:

• Media 
• Genres 
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• Pieties 
• Species 
• Disciplines 
• Narratives 
• Narrowness 

Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals,: containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy.

… anointed with unguents … not more than Hera … more arrogant … mighty … from afar. May there abide … life … the gods … among friendly … But may all the envious be absent, and all unseemly rumour. We pray that Semele’s good fortune may ever steer a straight course. For … this other … Semele … Cadmus … the all-powerful Zeus … marriage… the nymphs shall come in kindness, with sweet disposition, … coming … both … harsh and hateful … when they come near. Many … husband … girdles …

?—Can you see …?
DICTYS. —I can see… .
? —What do you want me to look out for? …
DICTYS. —In case anywhere … in the sea… .
—Not a sign; so far as I can see, the sea’s a mill-pond.
DICTYS. —Look now at the crannies of the cliffs by the shore.
? —All right, I’m looking… . Good Lord, what am I to call this! Is it a monster of the sea that meets my eyes, a grampus or a shark or a whale? Lord Poseidon and Zeus of the deep, a fine gift to send up from the sea …!
DICTYS. —What gift of the sea does your net conceal? It’s covered with seaweed like…