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Comus

In late Greek mythology, the god of festive mirth. He is depicted as a sleeping winged youth, crowned with flowers and holding a hunting spear and an inverted torch.

The English poet John Milton in his masque Comus represents him as the offspring of Bacchus and the enchantress Circe, endowed with the power to turn human faces into those of beasts.



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The masque of Comus was written for a great entertainment given by the Earl of Bridgewater, at Ludlow Castle, and three of his children took part in it.
By the riot of his rolling eye, and the pagan decorations of his holy garb, he seemed the wildest monster there, and the very Comus of the crew.
These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death,--with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive,--to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
 
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