Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 05 The Tryst, is now posted.
In which Princox is smitten, or shams he is, and ventures to maund and angle his way into the good graces of a demure and comely pullet.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 04 The Fescennine, is now posted.
In which Princox seeks out a nearby apiary, cantillates a jocular but scurrilous ditty to his doxy as he trudges, and is answered piquantly in verse.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 03 The Ferule, is now posted.
In which Princox discovers the true meaning of freedom, choice, necessity, and the need for corporal deterrence to urge conformity, particularly among the gentle sex of tender age.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 02 The Lavandiere, is now posted.
In which Princox confronts an antiquated mort washing grotty rags of stain, who baffles him with eerie palaver. An image of Syren, hooded and masked, but graceful of limb as a birch tree swaying, now leads him to the widdershins.
Wherefore by their Fruits, Episode 01 The Rustics, is now posted.
In which Piter Princox, scalawag, but acting as a proctor of the Perfection of Man, seeking scofflaws, has departed the warrens for rustic zones. He is without his snaphance but toting his ferule. It is reveille, and the terminator sweeps from deiseil to widdershins. There are older words for these things, mostly forgotten.
Something more weighty has been forgotten as well.
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