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Warn all creatures from thee Henceforth, lest that too heavenly form pretended To hellish falsehood snare them.

Warn all creatures from thee Henceforth, lest that too heavenly form pretended To hellish falsehood snare them.

Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance

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John Milton
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Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 554 · printed citation: Milton · subject: SNARE

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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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