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Of Arable the bleji^ with fuch delay 



Well pleas d they Jlack their courfe^ and many a 

 League 



Pleased with the grateful fmell old Ocean fmiles. 



As none of thefe Odours can be fmelled at a di- 

 ftance, fo they only help the Poet to a quaint Si- 

 mile now and then. Maundrell in his Travels 

 from Aleppo to Jerufalem, (page 85.) does infift, 

 how the fine ftory about the Apples of Sodom^ 

 that are by iVuthors (even of good note) confix 

 dently faid to grow near to the Mare Mortuuni^ 

 is a fiftion of the felf fame nature^ Handing upon 

 record for a beautiful allufion only. However I 

 cannot help taking notice. That Milton^ book 10. 

 line «;6o. makes ufe of this very allufion, in de- 

 fcribing the Punifhment of the fallen Angels, up- 

 on Sataft\ return to Pandemojtium.^ after having 

 feduced our fir ft Parents, viz. 



— — Greedily they pluck'- J 

 The Fruitage fait to fight ^ like that which grew 

 Near that bituminous Lake where Sodom flam* d-, 

 T'his more delufive^ not the touchy but tajlc 

 Deceivd', they fondly thinking to allay 



' Their Appetite with guji^ inflead of Fruit 

 Chewd bitter AfheSy which th' offended tajie 



.. With [pattering Noife rejetted: 



book 10. page 560. 



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