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Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.

As the Heavenly Ferusalem is described by St. John, Revel. 21. 21 And the Street of the City is pue Gold: Pavimentum, Lat. A Floor, a Causeway, of pavio, Lat. To beat down, to pave.
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