By my other wife I had a daughter, so hard favoured, so foule and ill faced, that I thinke a grove full of golden trees; and the leaves of Rubies and Dyamonds, would not bee a dowrie aunswerable to her deformitie.

I mean, really very loud oooooh!

[…] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.

Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow. Audio recorded too loud will distort in the analog world, and will simply brick wall in digital terms.