Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones,…

John Milton
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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. ✨ John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland, p.323
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