Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"

The passage in *Absolom and Achitophel* is taken from Fuller's *Profane State*, speaking of Alva: "He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it;" and from Carew, p. 71., "The purest soul that ere was sent Into a clayey tenement."