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 1    II|      large,~ Or else more crook'd and intertangled. Thus~
 2    II| Entwined by elements more crook'd, and so~ Are wont to tear
 3    II|        that represents~ The arm'd Dictaean Curetes, who, in
 4    II|       dissimilar,~ That thus we'd see in brightness of the
 5    II|         utter reason with learn'd speech,~ Though not himself
 6    II|         and cling -~ After they'd been in many a manner driven~
 7   III|     toil.~ But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both;~
 8   III|     twould follow~ One creature'd have in body many souls.~
 9   III|     then,~ Leaving all else, he'd study to divine~ The nature
10    IV|      again, though indeed~ They'd caught the scented foot-prints
11    IV|         his heels; and there he'd damn himself~ For his fatuity,
12    IV|        links of Venus. But they'd ne'er~ So pull, except they
13     V|        of hands and legs,~ They'd chase the forest-wanderers,
14     V|      the beasts;~ And many they'd conquer, but some few they
15     V|         buried in a sleep, they'd wait~ Until the sun with
16     V|       from home y-driven,~ They'd flee their rocky shelters
17     V|        by sounder reasoning, he'd own~ Abounding riches, if
18     V|        Against them, these they'd rend across the face;~ And
19     V|      unwitting from behind they'd tear~ Down from their mounts,
20     V|      care.~ And day by day they'd force the woods to move~
21     V|        s branches, merrily they'd refresh~ Their frames, with
22    VI|         for then perforce~ They'd either fall, borne down
23    VI|        or, like the smoke, they'd powerless be~ To keep their
24    VI|        er-given. At first, they'd bear about~ A skull on fire
25    VI|    virulent stench, or, if they'd tasted there,~ Would languish
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