“In such a tenebrous and narrow cage

Were we shut up, and the accustomed plumes

I changed betimes, and my first countenance.”

“In such a tenebrous and narrow cage Were we shut up, and the accustomed plumes I changed betimes, and my first countenance.”

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Upon this speech of Virgil to Cato, Mr. Barlow, Study of Dante , remarks:⁠—