hard fire in Milton's empty
eyes a world of tastes & smells
odors & breezes heats and
colds the resplendent colors
of heaven translated to multi-
farious taste & sound &
touch speak up for yourself
or you won't be heard
beat them as stubble of the
field mad unthinking
exultation as if one's enemies
were God's as well Come
seare mee, seare mee, I shall beare
in my body the markes of the
Lord Jesus Come friend, Come,
burne mee, cut mee, I feare
it not. I have learn'd to feare
the fire of Hell, and not what man
can doe unto mee: Bastwick's wife
kissed his ears We are asked to
believe that a bee came and sucked
honey from the flowers in his
hand My wife yesterday of her owne
accord brought me these wedding
gloves, for this is my wedding
day Shee is but a young
Souldier of Christ, but shee
hath already endured many a sharp
brunt and cut him deep into the
neck, neare jugular veine, to the
great danger of his life. the marks
of the state engraved in the bodies
of the citizenry an antinomian
tattoo beaten into cropped ears
so that he fainted from the pain
of his tongue pierced pain
as option scarification as fashion
adornment aristocracy engraved
in the aristocrat's pierced ears
antinomianism in the
puritan's sawn stumps Jonson's
branded thumb