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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10

Note 222 — THE HIND AND THE PANTHER. PART THIRD.

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The fiend in the Book of Tobit, who haunted Raguel's daughter, is frighted away, by fumigation, by Tobias her bridegroom. Thus, Milton:

——Better pleased Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume, That drove him, though enamoured, from the spouse Of Tobit's son, and with a vengeance sent From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound. Par. Lost, Book IV.

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