Here Leslie shows his unhappiness with the imaginative treatment of angels in Paradise Lost, a treatment he perhaps justifiedly thought people read as truth.

The coming months will also be a period of trying to shed her scriptedness.

When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in

John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.