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Penguin Island

BOOK III
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He saw Apollos playing the lute on a flowery hill, in the midst of the Muses wearing light tunics.

He saw Venuses lying under shady myrtles and the Danae exposing their charming sides to the golden rain.

He saw pictures of Jesus under the pillar's of the temple amidst patricians, fair ladies, musicians, pages, negroes, dogs, and parrots.

He saw in an inextricable confusion of human limbs, outspread wings, and flying draperies, crowds of tumultuous Nativities, opulent Holy Families, emphatic Crucifixions.

He saw St.Catherines, St.
Barbaras, St.Agneses humiliating patricians by the sumptuousness of their velvets, their brocades, and their pearls, and by the splendour of their breasts.


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