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ἀποθνῄσκει. H.'s vivid imagination conceives the serpent pair as a sort of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Dryden (Abs. and Ach. i. 1013-15) has a fine simile, based on this snake story, for the witnesses to the Popish Plot:— “Till, viper-like, their mother plot they tear,
And suck for nutriment that bloody gore
Which was their principle of life before.

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