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18:10. Orion. A hunter famous in ancient myth, armed with belt and sword, translated to the heavens as a constellation, thought to bring storms. 19:36. Shone.

"When sea-born Venus guided o'er
Her warrior to the Punic shore,
Around that radiant head she threw
In deep'ning clouds ambrosial dew:
But when the Tyrian queen drew near,
The light pour'd round him fresh and clear."
                                            —Landor.

"Not great Æneas stood in plainer day,
When, the dark mantling mist dissolved away,
He to the Tyrians showed his sudden face,
Shining with all his goddess mother's grace:
For she herself had made his countenance bright,
Breathed honor on his eyes, and her own purple light."
                            —Dryden, Britannia Rediviva.

20:4. Enchased.

"Like to a golden border did appeare,
Framed in goldsmithes forge with cunning hand."
                                    —Spenser, Faerie Queene.

21:9. Learning.

"Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
Are pregnant to good pity."
                                    —Shakespeare, King Lear.

"What sorrow wast thou had'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe."
                                    —Gray, Hymn to Adversity.

21:30. Acanthus. A plant now called bear's-foot, or bear's-breech; grows in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and India. Its leaf was a common form in embroidery and