Note 291 — CANTO THE FIFTH.[270]
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[See Ovid's Metamorphoses, lib. iv. lines 55-58—
"In Babylon, where first her queen, for state, Raised walls of brick magnificently great, Lived Pyramus and Thisbe, lovely pair! He found no Eastern youth his equal there, And she beyond the fairest nymph was fair."
Garth.]