A melancholy boddy is not the kindest nurse for a chearely minde, (the joviall complexion is soverainly beholding to nature,) but I know not a finer transformation in Ovid then the Metamorphosis of dudgen earnest into sport; of harsh sower into sweet; of losse into gaine; or reproch into credit; of whatsoever badd occurrence into some good.

The punctus circumflexus does not seem to have been used commonly in manuscripts of other than liturgical texts.

Coordinate term: smoking jacket

To his comic fury and shame, the traveller's 'master part' fails to rise to the occasion, and the girl's innocence is preserved.