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Cowley says of the stone with which Cain slew his brother,

Of the sword taken from Goliah, he says,

Other poets describe death by some of its common appearances. Cowley says, with a learned allusion to sepulchral lamps real or fabulous,

But he has allusions vulgar as well as learned. In a visionary succession of kings:

Describing an undisciplined army, after having said with elegance,

he gives them a fit of the ague.

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