Speaking of the original play, Ravenscroft wrote, "'tis the most incorrect and indigested piece in all his works.

The 'indigested mass,' including the 'promise and potency' of all that was yet to be, was called into being by the simple fiat of God.

Returned from Scotland in 1746, Prince Charles brought with him a head full of indigested romance, a heart rich in chimerical expectations.

Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump, As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!

Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope, To wit, an indigested and deformed lump, Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.

See, from afar, yon rock that mates the sky, About whose feet such heaps of rubbish lie; Such indigested ruin; bleak and bare, How desart now it stands, expos'd in air! '

Additionally, broadsheets demonized the Dutch as drunken and profane, with Andrew Marvell's 1653 insult of Holland, "The Character of Holland," reprinted ("This indigested vomit of the Sea,/ Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety").