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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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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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III. 1417. 'Lucifera: Stella matutina.'

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
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II. 1466. 'Aurora: amica solis'; shewing the confusion of _Tithonus_ with_Titan_. IV. 22. 'Herine (_sic_), furie infernales; unde Lucanus, me pronuba duxitHerinis.' This proves that Chaucer really took the name from Lucan, Phars.viii. 90, q. v.
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