Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes
Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.
A periphrasis, or description of the pigmies, seated about the Bounds of INdia, among the Mountains, about three spans high, contrinual Adversaries to the Cranes, whom though our Poet terms Infantry, (a word importing soldiers ferving on Food) yet they were wont every Spring, mounted on Rams and Goats, to march with all their Multitude down to the Sea, armed with Bows and Arrows, there to encounter the Cranes, and to destroy their Eggs and Young ONes, left their Winged Enemies should grow too fast upon 'em. During this Expedition, which took up almost three Months, they encamped in Huts made of Mud and Feathers, fized o'er with the Whites of the Eggs where their Enemies lay in Embryo's.
A periphrasis, or description of the pigmies, seated about the Bounds of INdia, among the Mountains, about three spans high, contrinual Adversaries to the Cranes, whom though our Poet terms Infantry, (a word importing soldiers ferving on Food) yet they were wont every Spring, mounted on Rams and Goats, to march with all their Multitude down to the Sea, armed with Bows and Arrows, there to encounter the Cranes, and to destroy their Eggs and Young ONes, left their Winged Enemies should grow too fast upon 'em. During this Expedition, which took up almost three Months, they encamped in Huts made of Mud and Feathers, fized o'er with the Whites of the Eggs where their Enemies lay in Embryo's.
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