Out of water grow all vegetable and animal substances, which consist as well of sulphureous. fat, and inflammable parts, as of earthy and alcolizate ones.

Something of the same sort happened at Hensberg, Germany, where the nuns were afflicted and committed the sin they called “the silent sin.” In their ecstasies, their convulsions were very violent and interspersed with “cynical movements of the pelvis.”

Suppers were the ne plus ultra of human invention; it could go no further, and was obliged to degenerate; dinner is too much matter of business, it is a necessity: now, a necessity is too like a duty ever to be pleasant.

he saw himselfe so freshly reare, / As if late fight had nought him damnifyde […]