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things ; n ' $ t presuming to sing high prarses ^ Sf heroic men . ot fatriMs CitiesV unless ; he " ttaWin himself Che e&erience eMttte practfc ^ f oF W it ^ Wbl ^ U is praiseAtphjfi ° T ^ i ^ as »| together tilth , a c ^ t taitf - ifi q $ \ $ W $ ^ e aitbonSt Mfl&ittness In ^ ^ elfSesteem ' eith # f ofc &hat I wuj ^ or ' W&atf jf im £ Ut He ; X ^ hiBi ^^ rlYir riafr fc ^ e ^ ^" lastly , ttortiib ^; ^ l ^ f # «^^ in ' tbi tUPe % feg 3 , ;^ et | Ii eVe i inay ; be ekcuSed to in&ke s ^ mi be ^ eteihg ^ rofUsVtf ; * all ° / these Hiiiitfiig ^ tide ; stippiy bf thteirnatuM Hid together , ^ Ikept me still f % e ttibsre iH& dfes ^ % * r of ininci , beneath : ^ eli * e 1 mti s ^ MeH iikqfe ^ i ^ el £ «^ ( toft . heai ^ iil e 5 ttit TO ^/ VdSferlSiy ffiM l / titey tell ye ^ tiit& er ; ii ) y younger &et xV 0 fai ? e d ; t ttet q blP J ii | eP aiiioM tlibse Mfcy fables and ^ xnaiiqes , WAich re ^ oi iii t MMyof i ^ ^ ht ^^ the d ^^ bf toti % hthbod fouxided fry otir yictqrtotis kin ^ Md t | r&ni ife cf feaii W ten o ^ h ove r all Christendom . iTiere I read it to of
^ in -t hetfaifti ' ttf ^ Very krtigh . t ; thathe ^ hduld defend the expense ! 'liis ^ es t blood , or of Ms life , if it so befel him , the honour and chastity of virgin or matroia , f < ff # 5 n ^ , ^ enc ^ ^ veiix $ Jien I learned whajt a noble virtue chastity ^ ajare must be , to the defence o £ * which so many worthies , by such a dear adventure of tbe ^ gei \ f 03 ibad ) fe \^ ortti ; > and if l fbun ^ d in the story afterward ; any Wttietn , byW 6 rdior ^ de € « dy breaking thktoatb ^ I judged it the s « me fault of thepdet , as ttkt Wbii ^ h ^ attribute ^ oto Homer , to have written indecent thing's of the gods > i ottly ihis tnynttind' ^ ave me , that 6 verylree and gentle spirit , without that omh " , ought tofbdbovjOL ^ ^ knightv nor needed to expect the gilt spur , or the layin ^^ f ' ^ sw ^ rd ^ upobf iiis shoulder to stir him up both by Ms counsel and
his . * aTi& < ~ 7 to : 'secure and Jurotect the weakness of any attempted chastity . So that' even the ^^ 'book ^ nvfaich to many have been the fuel of wantonness and lcrose living , I jealna ^ t think howj unless by divine indulgence , proved to me so riiany incitements as you ^ have heard , to the love and stedfast observation of ' -HbSto <' vvtiffl& whieht afelioirs the society of bordellos . Thus from the laureate frat& * nitV > 0 f ^^ jw * ets ^ ifiper * y ears i and the ceaseless round of study and reading led * iimib the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of ^ Pl ^ to /«* nd 7 his '!« qiiai Xenophon : where if I should tell ye what 1 learnt of chastity uiid love , I * i ^ ean . that which is truly so , whose charming cup is only virtue ^ tVti i eh $ h ® 'b ^ ars i ^ iher hand to those who are worthy ( the rest are cheated \ vith a thick intoxicating" potion , which a certain sorceress , the oarries first chiefe
abuse ^^ of | iov ^» 'wajste ^ t about ) ; and how the and st office of lov 0 M ^ iftfei anid / ehd& in the soul , producing those happy twins of her diviflfc generation , ' knowledg-e and virtue : with such abstracted sublimities a ^ tbese ^ i it < % n % yi be wbrtii your listening , readers , as I may one day hope to have ye' ^ ina ^ tiii ^ i tiifaei ' v ^ hen there shall be no chiding ; not in these noises , the a aversar ^ a ^ ye kiio ^ w > barking at the door , or searching for me at the bordellos ^ Where it may be he has lost himself , and raps up without pity the sage and rheumatic bid prelatess , with all her young Corinthian laity , to uujtiire for sucb > af ^ oae . ¦ •< Last of all , not in time , but as perfection is last , that care was 'ev ^ p ihad ifr . thesj with my earliest capacity , not to be negligently trained in ; the ? precepts of the 'Christian religion : this that I have hitherto
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— ' ' * ¦ " ^ i : - ¦ ' - ' * ¦ ' i ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ * - ' t ¦ ' ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ — i .. —« —— — ^' liiVs'iia ^ ag ^ wi ^' t ^ iiVd ' the ^ ad ^ r . familiar with the poetry of iVliltoiK of the bekutifttlvVrse ^ ibCbiiids - id ^ aisfe of cliastrty : ' ' ' ' ¦(¦ ¦ t ; \> A '\ . if )¦{< Wrpi' i . ' . Ji ' . o - . jl . i Us-,, , !*'< : » , i ... .- ; ¦ . " - ¦ ; i :- ' - ; '• ¦ " ¦ , , ; . . j jlSp . dfW . ^^ a ^ Vi ^ ^ Rifr ^^^ tei <> ¦¦ » ! i v- *• -. Dnvliig far off ekch ihuik of sin and guilt , , ..... . ... ( ^ IMl'hfer ' of tUings ' fhat no ¦• gfote e' ^ r catl hear , ; ' 1 i ! r liill % ft edn ^ rfee with HeaVSnl ^ habftantis Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape , The unpolluted temple of the mind , , 1 ' AndVlirirriis it ' by degrees to the ' sdul's cs ' sciicc , Till all be made immortal .
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Ji&tobiographij of John MUton . 677
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/21/
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