...difficulty. Milton seems to have had an eye to this passage, when he wrote those fine lines in Comus — The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and...are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in enamel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body...

...The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and irnbrutes, till she quite lose The divine properly of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy...sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved ; And links itself, by carnal sensuality, To a degenerate and...

...he wrote those fine lines in Comus— The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutcs, till she quite lose The divine property of her first...are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in chamel vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body...

...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave. As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself...

...comparison ; for which, however, he is tndebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch : — The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows...are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnal vaults and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body...

...uses the same comparison : The lavish act of sin .* in defilement to the inward parts. The soul growl clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till...shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself...

...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures^ and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new made grave, As loath (o leave the body that it loved, And link'd itself...

...comparison ; for which, however, he is indebted rather to Plato than to Plutarch. The lavish act of sin Lets in defilement to the inward parts. The soul grows...shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave. As loath to leave the body that it loved, And links itself...

...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, ance, loth to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded...

...when Lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres Lingering, and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And link 'd itself...