I went down yesterday to the Peiraeus with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions to the Goddess, and also because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was its inauguration. And then the dragons arrived.

It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the dragons were returned again in Holland; for they had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, they were brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said they were brought from Candia; others from Cyprus.

The world is everything that is the case.

Dragons have arrived, therefore they are also the case.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The dragons they have all arrived
And no birds sing.

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Just a little spin-off from the glow-worms game

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; and much was fought over until his far-flung brood bethought them of a reunion, and on that day in June the dragons arrived.