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174.<br />

"<strong>The</strong> fifty nuptial beds,<br />

(such hopes had he,<br />

So large a promise <strong>of</strong> a<br />

progeny,)<br />

<strong>The</strong> ports <strong>of</strong> plated gold,<br />

and hung with spoils."<br />

Dryden's Virgil, ii.658<br />

—O would kind earth, &c. "It<br />

is apparently a sudden, irregular<br />

burst <strong>of</strong> popular indignation<br />

to which Hector alludes, when<br />

he regrets that the Trojans had<br />

not spirit enough to cover Paris<br />

with a mantle <strong>of</strong> stones. This,<br />

however, was also one <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ordinary formal modes <strong>of</strong> punishment<br />

for great public <strong>of</strong>fences.<br />

It may have been originally<br />

connected with the<br />

same feeling—the desire <strong>of</strong><br />

avoiding the pollution <strong>of</strong>

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