Christopher Ricks (Milton's Grand Style, p.74) makes the link between Adam and Eve 'bewailing thir excess' and lines from The Pardoner's Tale
O, wiste a man how manye maladyes
Folwen of excesse and of glotonyes
Think also here of the sins of incontinence that occupy the early circles of Dante's Inferno.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
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