"Hydropical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... best skeletons, some bodies quick and speediest ashes. Who would expect a quick flame from hydropical Heraclitus? The poisoned soldier when his belly brake, put out two pyres in Plutarch. But in the plague of Athens, one private pyre served two or three intruders; and the Saracens burnt in large heaps, by the king of Castile, showed how little fuel sufficeth. Though the funeral ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne |
