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The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, Lay stretched at length and snoring in his den, Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o'ercharged With purple wine and cruddled gore confused.

O'er the wide plain there rose a shady wood 40 Of aged trees; in its dark bosom stood A bushy thicket, pathless and unworn, O'errun with brambles, and perplexed with thorn: Amidst the brake a hollow den was found, With rocks and shelving arches vaulted round.

Deep in the dreary den, concealed from day, Sacred to Mars, a mighty dragon lay, Bloated with poison to a monstrous size; Fire broke in flashes when he glanced his eyes; His towering crest was glorious to behold, 50 His shoulders and his sides were scaled with gold; Three tongues he brandished when he charged his foes; His teeth stood jagy in three dreadful rows.

The Tyrians in the den for water sought, And with their urns explored the hollow vault: From side to side their empty urns rebound, And rouse the sleepy serpent with the sound.

Bears, wolves, and all the savage brood, Have dyed the regal den with blood.

" "You are rightyes, lad, you have indeed raked into the old Mexican's treasure den; I can recall now some words he once spoke.

It deserves neither quarter nor sympathy; but as we can never reconcile it let our rule of conduct be to scorn it with a good heart, and as our happiness and glory is torture to it we may rejoice in its sufferings: Den Neid wirst nimmer du versöhnen; So magst du ihn getrost verhöhnen.

Nu kann leben; Werd' ich zunicht, er muss von Noth den Geist aufgeben.

The great sight of his place, however, was the hero's private den at the bottom of the garden.

My word, it required some pluck to move about in the den of the great Tartarin.

It was a terrible moment for Tartarin, but he realised the solemnity of the words, and, looking around his cosy little den with a moist eye, he replied at length in a choking voice, "Bravida, I shall go!"

" "Den you can turn de eyes to your head von oder way," retorted his father.

" "He meant to do it, den," said the old man.

And all conspir'd a bane to mortal men, To bring this devil out of that black den.

And that vast den or hole called [3020]Esmellen in Muscovia, quae visitur horriendo hiatu, &c. which if anything casually fall in, makes such a roaring noise, that no thunder, or ordnance, or warlike engine can make the like; such another is Gilber's Cave in Lapland, with many the like.

I would have a convenient place to go down with Orpheus, Ulysses, Hercules, [3034]Lucian's Menippus, at St. Patrick's purgatory, at Trophonius' den, Hecla in Iceland, Aetna in Sicily, to descend and see what is done in the bowels of the earth: do stones and metals grow there still?

Thanks to his sympathetic interest and to the courtesy of the McCormick family on whose estate the laboratory was located, my work was done under wholly delightful conditions, and with assistance from Ramon Jimenez and Frank Van Den Bergh, Jr., which was invaluable.

From my den, as Bunyan has it, 30 Sep. 24.

from my den in Leadenhall, 2 Nov. 24.

A few days afterwards Boswell ventured a call, was kindly received and detained for some time by "the giant in his den."

"I'se gwine to git you a little something warm to drink and something to eat right soon, and den I'se gwine put you-all to bed nice and clean, and in de mawnin' you'll feel like you was anotheh lady, you suttinly will, Ma'am.