| | 16005 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0001 BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY THE AGE OF FABLE BY THOMAS BULFINCH |
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| | 16006 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0002 CHAPTER THIRTEEN THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN |
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| | 16007 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0003 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER VISIT LIBRIVOX DOT ORG |
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| | 16008 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0004 NISUS AND SCYLLA ECHO AND NARCISSUS CLYTIE HERO AND LEANDER |
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| | 16009 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0005 NISUS AND SCYLLA MINOS KING OF CRETE MADE WAR UPON MEGARA |
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| | 16010 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0006 NISUS WAS KING OF MEGARA AND SCYLLA WAS HIS DAUGHTER |
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| | 16011 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0007 THE SIEGE HAD NOW LASTED SIX MONTHS AND THE CITY STILL HELD OUT FOR IT WAS DECREED BY FATE |
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| | 16012 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0008 THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN SO LONG AS A CERTAIN PURPLE LOCK |
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| | 16013 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0009 WHICH GLITTERED AMONG THE HAIR OF KING NISUS REMAINED ON HIS HEAD |
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| | 16014 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0010 THERE WAS A TOWER ON THE CITY WALLS |
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| | 16015 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0011 WHICH OVERLOOKED THE PLAIN WHERE MINOS AND HIS ARMY WERE ENCAMPED |
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| | 16016 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0012 TO THIS TOWER SCYLLA USED TO REPAIR |
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| | 16017 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0013 AND LOOK ABROAD OVER THE TENTS OF THE HOSTILE ARMY |
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| | 16018 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0014 THE SIEGE HAD LASTED SO LONG THAT SHE HAD LEARNED TO DISTINGUISH THE PERSONS OF THE LEADERS |
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| | 16019 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0015 MINOS IN PARTICULAR EXCITED HER ADMIRATION |
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| | 16020 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0016 ARRAYED IN HIS HELMET AND BEARING HIS SHIELD SHE ADMIRED HIS GRACEFUL DEPORTMENT |
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| | 16021 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0017 IF HE THREW HIS JAVELIN SKILL SEEMED COMBINED WITH FORCE IN THE DISCHARGE |
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| | 16022 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0018 IF HE DREW HIS BOW APOLLO HIMSELF COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT MORE GRACEFULLY |
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| | 16023 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0019 BUT WHEN HE LAID ASIDE HIS HELMET AND IN HIS |
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| | 16024 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0020 PURPLE ROBES BESTRODE HIS WHITE HORSE WITH ITS GAY CAPARISONS |
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| | 16025 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0021 AND REINED IN ITS FOAMING MOUTH |
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| | 16026 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0022 THE DAUGHTER OF NISUS WAS HARDLY MISTRESS OF HERSELF |
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| | 16027 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0023 SHE WAS ALMOST FRANTIC WITH ADMIRATION SHE ENVIED THE WEAPON THAT HE GRASPED |
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| | 16028 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0024 THE REINS THAT HE HELD |
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| | 16029 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0025 SHE FELT AS IF SHE COULD IF IT WERE POSSIBLE GO TO HIM THROUGH THE HOSTILE RANKS |
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| | 16030 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0026 SHE FELT AN IMPULSE TO CAST HERSELF DOWN FROM THE TOWER INTO THE MIDST OF HIS CAMP |
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| | 16031 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0027 OR TO OPEN THE GATES TO HIM |
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| | 16032 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0028 OR TO DO ANYTHING ELSE SO ONLY IT MIGHT GRATIFY MINOS |
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| | 16033 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0029 AS SHE SAT IN THE TOWER SHE TALKED THUS WITH HERSELF |
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| | 16034 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0030 I KNOW NOT WHETHER TO REJOICE OR GRIEVE AT THIS SAD WAR |
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| | 16035 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0031 I GRIEVE THAT MINOS IS OUR ENEMY |
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| | 16036 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0032 BUT I REJOICE AT ANY CAUSE THAT BRINGS HIM TO MY SIGHT |
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| | 16037 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0033 PERHAPS HE WOULD BE WILLING TO GRANT US PEACE |
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| | 16038 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0034 AND RECEIVE ME AS A HOSTAGE |
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| | 16039 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0035 I WOULD FLY DOWN IF I COULD AND ALIGHT IN HIS CAMP AND TELL HIM THAT WE YIELD OURSELVES TO HIS MERCY |
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| | 16040 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0036 BUT THEN TO BETRAY MY FATHER NO |
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| | 16041 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0037 RATHER WOULD I NEVER SEE MINOS AGAIN |
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| | 16042 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0038 AND YET NO DOUBT IT IS SOMETIMES THE BEST THING FOR A CITY TO BE CONQUERED |
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| | 16043 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0039 WHEN THE CONQUEROR IS CLEMENT AND GENEROUS |
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| | 16044 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0040 MINOS CERTAINLY HAS RIGHT ON HIS SIDE I THINK WE SHALL BE CONQUERED |
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| | 16045 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0041 AND IF THAT MUST BE THE END OF IT WHY SHOULD NOT LOVE UNBAR THE GATES TO HIM INSTEAD OF LEAVING IT |
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| | 16046 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0042 TO BE DONE BY WAR BETTER SPARE DELAY AND SLAUGHTER IF WE |
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| | 16047 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0043 CAN AND O IF ANY ONE SHOULD WOUND OR KILL MINOS |
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| | 16048 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0044 NO ONE SURELY WOULD HAVE THE HEART TO DO IT YET |
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| | 16049 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0045 IGNORANTLY NOT KNOWING HIM ONE MIGHT I WILL I WILL SURRENDER MYSELF TO HIM |
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| | 16050 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0046 WITH MY COUNTRY AS A DOWRY AND SO PUT AN END TO THE WAR |
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| | 16051 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0047 BUT HOW THE GATES ARE GUARDED AND MY FATHER KEEPS THE KEYS |
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| | 16052 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0048 HE ONLY STANDS IN MY WAY O THAT IT MIGHT |
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| | 16053 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0049 PLEASE THE GODS TO TAKE HIM AWAY |
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| | 16054 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0050 BUT WHY ASK THE GODS TO DO IT |
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| | 16055 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0051 ANOTHER WOMAN LOVING AS I DO WOULD |
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| | 16056 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0052 REMOVE WITH HER OWN HANDS WHATEVER STOOD IN THE WAY OF HER LOVE |
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| | 16057 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0053 AND CAN ANY OTHER WOMAN DARE MORE THAN I |
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| | 16058 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0054 I WOULD ENCOUNTER FIRE AND SWORD TO GAIN MY OBJECT |
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| | 16059 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0055 BUT HERE THERE IS NO NEED OF FIRE AND SWORD I |
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| | 16060 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0056 ONLY NEED MY FATHER'S PURPLE LOCK MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD TO ME |
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| | 16061 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0057 THAT WILL GIVE ME ALL I WISH |
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| | 16062 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0058 WHILE SHE THUS REASONED NIGHT CAME ON |
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| | 16063 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0059 AND SOON THE WHOLE PALACE WAS BURIED IN SLEEP |
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| | 16064 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0060 SHE ENTERED HER FATHER'S BEDCHAMBER AND CUT OFF THE FATAL LOCK |
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| | 16065 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0061 THEN PASSED OUT OF THE CITY AND ENTERED THE ENEMY'S CAMP |
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| | 16066 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0062 SHE DEMANDED TO BE LED TO THE KING AND THUS ADDRESSED HIM |
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| | 16067 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0063 I AM SCYLLA THE DAUGHTER OF NISUS |
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| | 16068 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0064 I SURRENDER TO YOU MY COUNTRY AND MY FATHER'S HOUSE |
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| | 16069 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0065 I ASK NO REWARD BUT YOURSELF FOR LOVE OF YOU I HAVE DONE IT |
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| | 16070 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0066 SEE HERE THE PURPLE LOCK WITH THIS I GIVE YOU MY FATHER AND HIS KINGDOM |
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| | 16071 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0067 SHE HELD OUT HER HAND WITH THE FATAL SPOIL |
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| | 16072 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0068 MINOS SHRUNK BACK AND REFUSED TO TOUCH IT THE |
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| | 16073 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0069 GODS DESTROY THEE INFAMOUS WOMAN HE EXCLAIMED DISGRACE OF OUR TIME |
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| | 16074 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0070 MAY NEITHER EARTH NOR SEA YIELD THEE A RESTING PLACE |
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| | 16075 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0071 SURELY MY CRETE WHERE JOVE HIMSELF WAS CRADLED SHALL NOT BE POLLUTED WITH SUCH A MONSTER |
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| | 16076 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0072 THUS HE SAID AND GAVE ORDERS THAT EQUITABLE TERMS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO THE CONQUERED CITY |
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| | 16077 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0073 AND THAT THE FLEET SHOULD IMMEDIATELY SAIL FROM THE ISLAND |
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| | 16078 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0074 SCYLLA WAS FRANTIC UNGRATEFUL MAN SHE EXCLAIMED IS IT |
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| | 16079 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0075 THUS YOU LEAVE ME ME WHO HAVE GIVEN YOU VICTORY |
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| | 16080 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0076 WHO HAVE SACRIFICED FOR YOU PARENT AND COUNTRY |
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| | 16081 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0077 I AM GUILTY I CONFESS AND DESERVE TO DIE |
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| | 16082 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0078 BUT NOT BY YOUR HAND AS THE SHIPS LEFT THE SHORE |
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| | 16083 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0079 SHE LEAPED INTO THE WATER AND SEIZING THE RUDDER OF THE ONE |
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| | 16084 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0080 WHICH CARRIED MINOS SHE WAS BORNE ALONG AN UNWELCOME COMPANION OF THEIR COURSE |
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| | 16085 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0081 A SEA EAGLE ING ALOFT |
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| | 16086 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0082 IT WAS HER FATHER WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED INTO THAT FORM |
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| | 16087 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0083 SEEING HER POUNCED DOWN UPON HER AND STRUCK HER WITH HIS |
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| | 16088 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0084 BEAK AND CLAWS IN TERROR SHE LET GO THE SHIP |
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| | 16089 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0085 AND WOULD HAVE FALLEN INTO THE WATER BUT SOME PITYING DEITY |
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| | 16090 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0086 CHANGED HER INTO A BIRD THE SEA EAGLE STILL CHERISHES THE OLD ANIMOSITY |
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| | 16091 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0087 AND WHENEVER HE ESPIES HER IN HIS LOFTY FLIGHT YOU MAY SEE HIM DART DOWN UPON HER |
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| | 16092 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0088 WITH BEAK AND CLAWS TO TAKE VENGEANCE FOR THE ANCIENT CRIME |
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| | 16093 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0089 ECHO AND NARCISSUS ECHO WAS A BEAUTIFUL NYMPH FOND OF THE WOODS AND HILLS |
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| | 16094 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0090 WHERE SHE DEVOTED HERSELF TO WOODLAND SPORTS SHE WAS A FAVORITE OF DIANA |
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| | 16095 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0091 AND ATTENDED HER IN THE CHASE BUT ECHO HAD ONE FAILING |
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| | 16096 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0092 SHE WAS FOND OF TALKING AND WHETHER IN CHAT OR ARGUMENT WOULD |
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| | 16097 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0093 HAVE THE LAST WORD ONE DAY JUNO WAS SEEKING HER HUSBAND WHO |
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| | 16098 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0094 SHE HAD REASON TO FEAR WAS AMUSING HIMSELF AMONG THE NYMPHS |
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| | 16099 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0095 ECHO BY HER TALK CONTRIVED TO DETAIN THE GODDESS TILL THE NYMPHS MADE THEIR ESCAPE |
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| | 16100 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0096 WHEN JUNO DISCOVERED IT SHE PASSED SENTENCE UPON ECHO IN THESE WORDS |
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| | 16101 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0097 YOU SHALL FORFEIT THE USE OF THAT TONGUE |
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| | 16102 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0098 WITH WHICH YOU HAVE CHEATED ME EXCEPT |
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| | 16103 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0099 FOR THAT ONE PURPOSE YOU ARE SO FOND OF REPLY |
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| | 16104 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0100 YOU SHALL STILL HAVE THE LAST WORD BUT NO POWER TO SPEAK FIRST |
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| | 16105 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0101 THIS NYMPH SAW NARCISSUS A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH |
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| | 16106 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0102 AS HE PURSUED THE CHASE UPON THE MOUNTAINS |
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| | 16107 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0103 SHE LOVED HIM AND FOLLOWED HIS FOOTSTEPS |
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| | 16108 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0104 O HOW SHE LONGED TO ADDRESS HIM IN THE SOFTEST ACCENTS |
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| | 16109 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0105 AND WIN HIM TO CONVERSE BUT IT WAS NOT IN HER POWER |
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| | 16110 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0106 SHE WAITED WITH IMPATIENCE FOR HIM TO SPEAK FIRST |
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| | 16111 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0107 AND HAD HER ANSWER READY |
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| | 16112 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0108 ONE DAY THE YOUTH BEING SEPARATED FROM HIS COMPANIONS SHOUTED ALOUD WHO'S HERE |
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| | 16113 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0109 ECHO REPLIED HERE NARCISSUS LOOKED AROUND BUT SEEING NO ONE CALLED OUT COME |
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| | 16114 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0110 ECHO ANSWERED COME AS NO ONE CAME NARCISSUS CALLED AGAIN |
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| | 16115 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0111 WHY DO YOU SHUN ME ECHO ASKED THE SAME QUESTION |
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| | 16116 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0112 LET US JOIN ONE ANOTHER SAID THE YOUTH |
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| | 16117 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0113 THE MAID ANSWERED WITH ALL HER HEART IN THE SAME WORDS AND HASTENED TO THE SPOT |
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| | 16118 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0114 READY TO THROW HER ARMS ABOUT HIS NECK HE STARTED BACK EXCLAIMING |
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| | 16119 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0115 HANDS OFF I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN YOU SHOULD HAVE ME |
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| | 16120 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0116 HAVE ME SAID SHE BUT IT WAS ALL IN VAIN |
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| | 16121 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0117 HE LEFT HER AND SHE WENT TO HIDE HER BLUSHES |
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| | 16122 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0118 IN THE RECESSES OF THE WOODS |
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| | 16123 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0119 FROM THAT TIME FORTH SHE LIVED IN CAVES AND AMONG MOUNTAIN CLIFFS |
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| | 16124 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0120 HER FORM FADED WITH GRIEF TILL AT LAST ALL HER FLESH SHRANK AWAY |
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| | 16125 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0121 HER BONES WERE CHANGED INTO ROCKS |
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| | 16126 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0122 AND THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT OF HER BUT HER VOICE |
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| | 16127 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0123 WITH THAT SHE IS STILL READY TO REPLY TO ANY ONE WHO CALLS HER |
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| | 16128 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0124 AND KEEPS UP HER OLD HABIT OF HAVING THE LAST WORD |
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| | 16129 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0125 NARCISSUS'S CRUELTY IN THIS CASE WAS NOT THE ONLY INSTANCE |
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| | 16130 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0126 HE SHUNNED ALL THE REST OF THE NYMPHS |
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| | 16131 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0127 AS HE HAD DONE POOR ECHO |
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| | 16132 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0128 ONE DAY A MAIDEN WHO HAD IN VAIN ENDEAVORED TO ATTRACT HIM UTTERED A PRAYER THAT HE MIGHT |
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| | 16133 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0129 SOME TIME OR OTHER FEEL WHAT IT WAS TO LOVE AND MEET NO RETURN OF AFFECTION |
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| | 16134 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0130 THE AVENGING GODDESS HEARD AND GRANTED THE PRAYER THERE |
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| | 16135 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0131 WAS A CLEAR FOUNTAIN WITH WATER LIKE SILVER TO WHICH THE SHEPHERDS NEVER DROVE THEIR FLOCKS |
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| | 16136 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0132 NOR THE MOUNTAIN GOATS RESORTED NOR ANY OF THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST |
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| | 16137 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0133 NEITHER WAS IT DEFACED WITH FALLEN LEAVES OR BRANCHES |
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| | 16138 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0134 BUT THE GRASS GREW FRESH AROUND IT AND THE ROCKS SHELTERED IT FROM THE SUN |
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| | 16139 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0135 HITHER CAME ONE DAY THE YOUTH FATIGUED WITH HUNTING |
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| | 16140 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0136 HEATED AND THIRSTY HE STOOPED DOWN TO DRINK |
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| | 16141 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0137 AND SAW HIS OWN IMAGE IN THE WATER |
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| | 16142 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0138 HE THOUGHT IT WAS SOME BEAUTIFUL WATER SPIRIT LIVING IN THE FOUNTAIN |
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| | 16143 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0139 HE STOOD GAZING WITH ADMIRATION AT THOSE |
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| | 16144 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0140 BRIGHT EYES THOSE LOCKS CURLED LIKE THE LOCKS OF BACCHUS OR APOLLO |
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| | 16145 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0141 THE ROUNDED CHEEKS THE IVORY NECK THE PARTED LIPS |
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| | 16146 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0142 AND THE GLOW OF HEALTH AND EXERCISE OVER ALL |
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| | 16147 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0143 HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIMSELF |
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| | 16148 | hugh-20070606-bul/mfc/bul0144 HE BROUGHT HIS LIPS NEAR TO TAKE A KISS |
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