Cerberus : three headed dog with a mane & a tail of snakes, who guards the entrance to Hades. Greeks bury honey cakes with their dead to placate Cerberus.
... natural eighteen years before. Sure, child, thou hast committed some unpardonable sin to have such a moonstruck lover as this Antonio. ISMENIA But, Brigida! BRIGIDA And his shadow too, his Cerberus of wit who guards this poetical treasure. He would have eaten me, I think, if I had not given him Page 819 the wherewithal to stop the three mouths of him. ISMENIA Why, Brigida... wonder where Don Beltran's gardener had his bignonias. ISMENIA Oh-h-h! BRIGIDA Well, where was I? Oh, giving the letter to Antonio. Why, would you believe it, in thrust Don Wit, Don Cerberus, Don Subtle- three-mouths. ISMENIA Will you tell me, you ogress, you paragon of tyrannesses, you she-Nero, you compound of impossible cruelties? BRIGIDA Saints, what have I done to be... invisibility. No, Cupid has flown away with them. It cannot have been the devil, for I smell no brimstone. Well, if they are so tedious I will not mortify myself with solitude either. I have set Don Cerberus on the stairs out of respect for the mythology. There he stands with his sword at point like the picture of a sentinel and protects us against a surprise of rats from the cellar; for what other wild ...
... that had gone to a Fancy Dress Ball in the clothes of 1934? There seemed to be a certain slickness in achieving the fashionable formula of today—and of course the inevitable sop to the anti-Victorian Cerberus, the introduction of something to offend the conventions of last century. But I did not feel any inevitability behind it all. Some "modern" verse is perverse but powerful; these lines seemed ...
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