Now I asked you to read for today, and I'm hoping you remember some of the reading, the canto from Spenser's Faerie Queene that features the cave of Mammon.

现在我要求你们为今天的课阅读，且我希望你们能从中记住一些东西，斯潘塞的长诗《仙后》，这篇描写了贪欲之神的洞穴。

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So this is Virgil: "When I was fain to sing of kings and battles, the Cynthian god" -that's Phoebus Apollo -- "plucked my ear and warned me."

这就是维吉尔所写的：“我欣然乐意着笔于国王与战争“,“而辛西亚那之神“,即为阿波罗-“在我耳边低声警告我“

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