—Milton, Comus.

[1:21.] Samos. A large island off the west coast of Asia Minor. Here were the most ancient temple and worship of Juno, here she was nurtured, and here she was married to Jupiter.

[1:28.] Libya. North Africa.

[2:1.] Fate’s.

“Those three fatall Sisters, whose sad hands

Doo weave the direful threads of destinie

And in their wrath brake off the vitall bands.”

—Spenser, Daphnaïda.

“Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears

And slits the thin-spun life.”