...and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, 470 The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and...shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, 475 Ling'ring, and sitting by a new made crave, As loath to leave the body that It lov'd, And link'd...

...when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish acts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows...quite lose The divine property of her first being. Ibid. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, What most we ought to fear ; the headstrong beast...

...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 clotted by contagion, 465 ^ The samenotion of body's working up to spirit Milton afierwards introduced into his Paradise...

...and lavish aet of sin, l*ts in defilement to the inward parts, The toul grows elotted by eontagion, Sueh are those thiek and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in ehamel vaults and sepulehres, Lmg'ring and...

...self-depraved creatures to quit the sensual world they love, even for Heaven; and hence, he says, ' Those thick and gloomy shadows damp, ,> " Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, . ' i . Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, , As loth to leave the body that it loved." « ....

...v » Lets in defilement to the inward parts, That soul grows spotted by contagion, < ' ' .•i•.' Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first beinj.' ,,Li. ., . ^ft ^^. " This fine doctrine of Plato he goes on withj'afr i you know, to account...

...acts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, That soul grows spotted by contagion, I in bodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.. . ^ u This fine doctrine of Plato he goes on with, as you know, to account for the unwillingness of...

...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...vaults, and sepulchres, Ling'ring, and sitting by a new made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To...

...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 clotted by contagion, Imbodics, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those...

...therefore, the eye of man can still behold them * ; which is copied by Milton when he speaks of — • a " Those thick and gloomy 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." iiVhich idea seems...