Portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat

Terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento

Canities inculta jacet; stant lumina flamma.

Virg. 7. Aen. Iib. vi. 2.

v. 82. In fierce heat and in ice.]

The delighted spirit

To bathe in fiery floods or to reside

In thrilling regions of thick ribbed ice.

Shakesp. Measure for Measure, a. iii.s.1.
Compare Milton, P. L. b. ii. 600.

v. 92. The livid lake.] Vada livida.