BATHING

Related Subjects: Cleanliness, Dirt, Swimming, Washing, Water

1. Many recite their writings in the bath. How pleasantly the vaulted space echoes the voice!—HORACE, Satires

2. Madame (de Flahaut) being ill, goes into the bath and when placed there sends for me. It is a strange place to receive a visit, but there is milk mixed with the water, making it opaque.—GOUVERNEUR MORRIS
   

3. In the height of this bath, where I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
   

4. A seething bath, which yet men prove
   Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet CLIII