CANTO III.

Witch and imps in a church--Inspired Priestess--Fusseli's night-mare--Cave of Thor and subterranean Naïads--Medea and her children--Palmira weeping Group of wild creatures drinking--Poison tree of Java--Time and hours--Lady shot in battle--Wounded deer--Harlots--Laocoon and his sons--Drunkards and diseases--Prometheus and the vulture--Lady burying her child in the plague Moses concealed on the Nile--Slavery of the Africans--Weeping Muse