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Like that self-begotten bird / In the Arabian woods embost, / That no second knows nor third, / And lay ere while a holocaust.


John Milton

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JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON