| Title | Sodden Venison |
| Source | UNC 1964 John White drawings |
| Origin | scans from UNC 1964 John White drawings |
"Sodden" is literally defined in the OED as “cooked or prepared by boiling,” which is how Hariot is using the word, it would soon (earliest OED example – 1599) pick up the connotations of “rendered dull, stupid, or expressionless; pale or flaccid.”