Where is the passage? and what kind of plants?
Plead could be you're word.
I pleaded the man to let me have the candy bar for free.
Two things you can use as supporting evidence are quotes from the passage or article, or statistics.
Faustus and the German emperor have always been enemies
The emperor is more powerful than Faustus
Faustus once declared that he will rule Germany
Faustus has already declared himself the new emperor of Germany
