tub quotes

I have been here a fortnight and I think I shall be here fifteen or twenty days longer, although I do not very much like the place, for this puddling in a tub continually is no charm to me.

-James, 4th Earl of Perth
OnVenice. Collected in Letters to his sister the Countess of Erroll, and other members of his family.

A mere tale of a tub, my words are idle.

-John Webster
  TheWhite Devil, act 2, sc.1.