He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days' growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance.

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

They also have sexually and scatologically suggestive elements nicely offsetting the hallucinogenic beauty.

For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely …