DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.

even after carnal conversion, poisons may yet retain some portion of their natures; yet are they so refracted, cicurated, and subdued

The Camel's hous; whiche it is saied that a certain king / In forne yeares, when he had on a Dromedarie Camele escaped the handes of his enemies, builded there.

Fowler effectively refuted critics who had argued that Milton's high style was un-English, but he overstated the case.