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Thy lifelesse Trunke (O Reverend Stocke), Like Aaron's rod Sprouts out againe; And after two Full winters past, Yields Blossomes And ripe fruit amaine. For why, this work of piety, Performed by some of thy Flocke, To thy dead corps and sacred urne, Is but the fruit of this old Stocke.
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The Spread Eagle, the armorial ensign of his family. The first turning on the left hand, as you enter from Cheapside, was called
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Black Spread Eagle Court, and not unlikely from the family ensign of the poet's father. Milton was born in this street (December 9, 1608), and baptised in the adjoining church of Allhallows, Bread Street, where the register of his baptism is still preserved. Of the house in which he resided in later life, and the churchyard of St. Giles, Cripplegate, where he was buried, we give a view on page 349. Aubrey tells us that the house and chamber in which the poet was born were often visited by foreigners, even in the poet's lifetime. Their visits must have taken place before the fire, for the house was destroyed in the Great Fire, and
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Paradise Lost