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THE VISION

of

THE MAID OF ORLEANS.

THE FIRST BOOK.

Orleans was hush'd in sleep. Stretch'd on her couch The delegated Maiden lay: with toil Exhausted and sore anguish, soon she closedHer heavy eye-lids; not reposing then, For busy Phantasy, in other scenes Awakened. Whether that superior powers, By wise permission, prompt the midnight dream, Instructing so the passive[1] faculty;
  1. ↑
    May says of Serapis, Erudit at placide humanam per somnia mentem, Nocturnâque quiete docet; nulloque labore Hic tantum parta est pretiosa scientia, nullo
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