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Proserpine and Midas

Note 21 — INTRODUCTION.

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To adduce an example—in what is probably not an easily accessible book to-day: Proserpine, distributing her flowers, thus addresses one of her nymphs: For this lily, Where can it hang but at Cyane’s breast! And yet ’twill wither on so white a bed, If flowers have sense for envy.

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