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

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.

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.