Metrical Romance of the Fourteenth Century.
And they knew him, that it was he which sate for alms at the Specious Gate of the temple.—Acts iii. 10. Rheims.
His mind as pure and neatly kept
As were his nurseries, and swept
So of uncleanness or offence
That never came ill odour thence;
And add his actions unto these,
They were as specious as his trees.
Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet.
Which [almug-trees], if odoriferous, made that passage as sweet to the smell as specious to the sight.—Fuller, Α Pisgah Sight of Palestine, b. iii. c. 2, § 5.