text:  You know the _Paradise Lost_? and you remember from the eleventh book in its earlier part that laudanum already existed in Eden--nay that it was used medicinally by an archangel; for after Michael had "purged with euphrasy and rue" the eyes of Adam lest he should be unequal to the mere _sight_ of the great visions about to unfold their draperies before him next he fortifies his fleshly spirits against the _affliction_ of these visions of which visions the first was death