I must take my leave, for the Cardinal holds a levee to-day, and let those fail in attendance who want nothing.

We can notice, for example, that “Vampire” combines the folkloric soucouyant (blood-sucking old woman in the shape of a ball of fire), a science fiction creature (“clammy, from its bed of hairs / And thirsty” [p. 24]), the moon again (Brown’s poems are obsessed by the moon); …

The lungs being cleansed and purged from matter, you must minister those medicines which will glutinate and heale vp the vlcer

The seaboat is fully manned and half way to the water down the ship's side, on deck a team of hefty sailors stand ready with the boatrope in hand poised for the seaboat to hit the water.