...counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malahar or Deccan spreads her arms, Brandling so hroad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs...

...counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose The fig-tree : not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar's shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning...

...tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this time to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarched, with echoing walls between. Paradise Lost, b. 9. The palace is Aladdin's. It is needless...

...fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, Butsuch as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar or Deecan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade, Hiph overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...

...such as at this time to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad aud long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarched, with echoing walls between. Paradise Lost, b. 9. The palace is Aladdin's. It is needless...

...Master-pieces of the former mode of poetic painting abound in the writings of Milton, ex. gr. The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this...arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground 'Sir William Davenant (1606- italicised part of the quotation into 68) Preface to Gondibert (1651)...

...Fall by bringing in his account of the fig tree from which Adam and Eve take those fig leaves: not that kind for Fruit renown'd But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreds her Armes Braunching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended Twigs take root, and Daughters...

...in the poem from four lines to two, and in so doing concentrated the description: The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown'd, But such as at this...Decan spreads her Arms Branching so broad and long . . . 1 1 See Johnson's description in the Life of Milton (Lives, 1, pp. 101-31, fxusim). 12 See above,...

...garments. The simile begins with their choice of the fig tree: there soon they chose The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown'd, But such as at this...day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her Armes Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended Twigs take root, and Daughters grow...

...fig or banyan tree: both together went Into the thickest Wood, there soon they chose The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown'd, But such as at this...root, and Daughters grow About the Mother Tree, a Pillar 'd shade High overarch't, and echoing Walks between; There oft the Indian Herdsman shunning...