I was in bed sick this morning, but I'm picking up now.

he was expert in prophecies, / And could the ledden of the gods unfold […]

[H]e himself was — all but — revowed to a monastic life.

The ratio between spissitude and percentage strength of solution varies, however, with the temperature, as shown by Figure 7, higher temperatures showing less increase in spissitude with increasing percentage strengths than is the case with low temperatures.