Note VI-51 — Chapter VI · GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.
Reading edition
'Cosa que desciende del cielo, como agua clarísima y purísima par lavar los pecados.' Sahagun, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. v., p. 368. See also Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. vi., p. 59.
'The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.'—Merchant of Venice, act. iv.