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ribs of Gold

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

Continuing the Metaphor of Earths Bowels, he calls the great Hole made int he Hill, a wide Wound, and here the Ore, Ribs of Gold, almost refined by the Natural Heat of that Infernal Soil
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