Canto

 1    13|        cave, wherein the bear,~Serpent, or lion, hid their savage
 2    17|     secured in mail,~Like to a serpent, issued into light,~Having
 3    18|    Endured the stout and scaly serpent's hide,~In which the cruel
 4    23| Springs from the turf, if he a serpent spies.~ ~ CXXIV~In him,
 5    27|     not present to perplex.~So serpent creeps along the grassy
 6    30|       LVI~Never raged trampled serpent, never so~Raged wounded
 7    31|   nurse withdrew;~And fangless serpent now, and goat, and bear,~
 8    37|   feels it not.~ ~ LXXVIII~"As serpent, by the pointed spear pinned
 9    37|  knight,~Than any mastiff, any serpent, worse~Offends Drusilla'
10    42|      tail, a fierce and bigger serpent wound~About her breast,
11    42|          L~The monster threw a serpent at his breast,~That froze
12    43|       Out of the jaw-bone of a serpent sprung:~Whence Manto, doomed
13    43|        he had espied:~A longer serpent and more thick to view~He
14    43|  sustain,~Aye reverence to the serpent wont to pay,~The honoured
15    43|        had grown~Erewhile from serpent's teeth by Cadmus sown;~ ~
16    43|    emprize;~Leaving the hunted serpent neither dead,~Nor injured,
17    43|        city, where he gave the serpent aid,~In that thick brake
18    43|           C~" `So hated as the serpent beast is none;~And we that
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