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PARADISE REGAINED. 423
With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends
Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears
Such hideous cries, that with the very noife
I trembling wak'd ;
and for a feafon after
Could not believe but that I was in Hell:
Such terrible imprelfion made my dream.
/. 427. p. 75. -with pilgrimJleps ]
K. Richard III. Act 1. Sc. 5.
With the flow folemn pace of a pilgrim on a journey of devotion.
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427. p. 75. amice
gray,~\
Neivlon.
Amice gray is gray clothing. Amice, a fignificant word, is derived
from the Latin amicio, to clothe : and is ufed by Spenfer, Faery
Queen,
Book I. C. iv. St. 18.
Array'd in habit black, and amice thin,
Like to an holy monk the fervice to begin.
1. 428. p. 75. Who -with her radiant fingerJiiW d the roar
Newton.
Of thunder, chac'd the clouds, and laid the -winds, &?c.]
This is an imitation of a paflage in the firft iEneid of Virgil, where
Neptune is reprefented with his trident laying
the ftorm which iEolus
had raifed. ver. 142.
Sic ait, et diro citius tumida aequora placat,
Collectasque fugat NUBEs, folemque reducit.
There is the greater beauty in the Englifh poet, as the fcene he is de-
fcribing under this charming figure is perfectly confident with the
courfe of nature ; nothing being more common than to fee a ftormy
night fucceeded by a pleafant, ferene morning. Thy er'
1. 430. p. 75. And grijlyfpeclres, -which the Fiend had rais'd,']
So when the fun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave,
The flocking fliadows pale,
Troop to the infernal jail,
Each fetter'd ghott flips to his feveral grave,