And so, let it be said that this aforementioned gentleman spent his times of leisure, which

meant most of the year, reading books of shivalry with so much devotion and enthusiasm that

he forgot almost completely about the hunt, and even about the administration of his estate.

And in his rash curiosity and folly, he went so far as to sell acres of arable land,

in order to buy books of shivalry to read.

And he brought as many of them as he could in his house, and he thought none was as fine

as those composed by the worthy Feliciano de Silva, because the clarity of his prose

and complexity of his language seemed to him more valuable than pearls.

In particular, when he read the declarations and missives of love, where he would often

find written, the reason for the unreason to which my reason turns so weakens my reason

that with reason I complain of thy beauty.

And also when he read, the heavens on high, divinely heightened thy divinity with the stars,

and make the deserving of the desserts thy greatness deserves.

With these words and phrases, the poor gentleman lost his mind.

Hello, everybody, and yes, this opening quote for you is in honour of one of our words

for today, and you may be able to guess which word it is.

But anyway, welcome to episode 128 of The Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

This is Sam, and let's get started now with a review of our words from yesterday.

So we had erratic, acme occlude and grandiliquant, erratic, that means not regular in pattern

or movement to be unpredictable or inconsistent, and also in geology, a boulder that has been

moved somewhere by a glacier.

Acme, acme, that is the point at which something is at its best or most highly developed,

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