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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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63. Adon: Adonis, a beautiful youth beloved of Venus, whose

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
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4. The third hour unequal: In the third planetary hour;Palamon had gone forth in the hour of Venus, two hours beforedaybreak; the hour of Mercury intervened; the third hour wasthat of Luna, or Diana. “Unequal” refers to the astrologicaldivision of day and night, whatever their duration, into twelveparts, which of necessity varied in length with the season. 65. Smoking: draping; hence the word “smock;” “smokless,” inChaucer, means naked. 66. Cerrial: of the species of oak which Pliny, in his “NaturalHistory,” calls “cerrus.”
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