Yet I observed that the Water at the burning place did boyle, and heave like Water in a Pot upon the Fire, though my hand put into it perceived it not so much as warm.

We may put the Exposition it self to the same Test, and judge by that, whether the Anonymus had reason to upbraid the Author of this Exposition with those rambling and general Terms in which (says he) he entanglingly wraps up the most difficult matters.

[T]he nobleſt Raptures have been conceiv'd in the Walks and ſhades of Trees, […] the Profound Philoſophers lov'd here to paſſe their lives in repoſe and Contemplation, and the frugal Repaſts—molleſque ſub arbore ſomni [a soft sleep under the tree] were the natural and chaſt delights of our Fore-Fathers.

skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold