Adonis, a youth loved by Venus and killed by a boar: Ven. 3. Ven. 3 179 etc. Sonn. 53, 5. Pilgr. 44. 74 Pilgr. 44 Pilgr. 44 Shr. Ind. 2, 52. “thy promises are like -- gardens that one day bloomed and fruitful were the next,” H6A I, 6, 6 (perhaps confounded with the garden of King Alcinous, but see Pliny XIX, 19, 1).*
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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