Selected Poems of John Milton: L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas
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is8 Harpies. They were monsters, three in number, with the faces of women, but with bodies, wings and claws like vultures. Hydras ; water-serpents. One of the labors of Hercules was to slay the hydra of Lerna, a nine-headed monster that ravaged the country about Argos. According to Vergil, a fifty-headed hydra guarded the entrance to Tartarus.
139 Booty, spoils, gain.
140 Probably a reference to Diodati, Milton's friend U1 Cf. II P. note 34.
86 MILTON.
Which when I did, he on the tender grass W...ould sit, and hearken even to ecstasy, And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, 142 Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.
Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he culled me out. 630 The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ; Ui And yet more med'cinal is it than that Moly 144 That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
is8 Harpies. They were monsters, three in number, with the faces of women, but with bodies, wings and claws like vultures. Hydras ; water-serpents. One of the labors of Hercules was to slay the hydra of Lerna, a nine-headed monster that ravaged the country about Argos. According to Vergil, a fifty-headed hydra guarded the entrance to Tartarus.
139 Booty, spoils, gain.
140 Probably a reference to Diodati, Milton's friend U1 Cf. II P. note 34.
86 MILTON.
Which when I did, he on the tender grass W...ould sit, and hearken even to ecstasy, And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, 142 Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.
Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he culled me out. 630 The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ; Ui And yet more med'cinal is it than that Moly 144 That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Milton, John, 1608-1674 to read onlineMoreLess
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