The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.

Thus Samuel Lee, in that curious and rare old work, The Temple of Solomon, pourtrayed by Scripture Light, thus dilates on this symbolism of the temple:-- "The foundation of this temple may be laid in humility and contrition of spirit, wherein the inhabiter of eternity delighteth to dwell; we may refer the porch to the mouth of a saint, wherein every holy Jacob erects the pillars of God's praise, calling upon and blessing his name for received mercies; when songs of deliverance are uttered from the doors of his lips.

As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.

It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.