If one half of the scandalous tales in circulation be true, the former ranks with that of Paris in its worst periods, and the latter is assuredly gross to a degree that would surprise even an inhabitant of Madrid.

These words have by a curiously gross error been dropped out in all editions save the 4to 1687.

At first, one wondered why someone with several years' experience in the profession was willing to take the bullshit dished out by preppies all for a measly six grand gross monthly.

And the scale seems decisively turned by the very remarkable combination in Justin and St. John of the saying respecting spiritual regeneration with the same strangely gross physical misconception.

The mistakes are very numerous, and some of them unaccountably gross.

Milton mentions this legend, and naïvely adds, "it is too absurd and unconscionably gross to be believed."