[89] Canto v.

[90] Canto xxxii.

[91] It would seem to be from those early monkish legends that the mediæval Inferno was built up. The torture of cold was the northern contribution to the scheme. Compare Warton, History of English Poetry, sec. 49, and Wright's Saint Patrick's Purgatory, 1844, p. 18.

[92] Paradise Lost, B. II., 587-603.

[93] Edit. Firmin-Didot. i, 597-598.

[94] Ibid. p. 621.

[95] Act iv., sc. 5.

[96] iii. 3.

[97] B. v, cc. 8, 9, 10. Cf. vi. 2, 3.

[98] B. v, cc. 22-25.