Status Updates From A Tour Through the Whole Is...

Taking a well-earned slightly longer pause, after these first two of three volumes—just as I have somewhat more briefly paused, to refresh & take sustenance, after each of the, so far, 7 of 13 graphomaniacal "Letters"

From hence to the city of Chichester are twelve miles, and the most pleasant beautiful country in England, whether we go by the hill, that is the Downs, or by the plain, (viz.) the enclosed country.

Maidstone, Kent:

is called the Mother of Hop Grounds in England; being the first place in England where hops were planted in any quantity [...]. These were the hops, I suppose, which were planted at the beginning of the Reformation, and which gave occasion to that old distich:

Hops, Reformation, bays, and beer,
Came into England all in a year.

I did not know this

the Earl of Arlington, one of the chief ministers of state in the reign of King Charles II and who made the second letter in the word CABAL; a word formed by that famous satirist Andrew Marvell, to represent the five heads of the politics of that time.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"—Henry V