Eglesburh

Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 134. Aylesbury, in the Vale of Aylesbury, Bucking hams hire. Eglesthrip (Episford). Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 116. Probably a place near Ailsford, Kent. (See also Ailsford.) {Two Chr. 2. 11.) Egypt (^gypt, ^gypticus, ^Egypt us, Pharian Fields). 81. 19, 42; 33; 87. 11; 114. 339, 421, 480, 488, 721; 1. 3. 3; 136. 38; 537; 4. 171; Ps. 80. Comus 676; 5. P. L. 274; 9. 443; 12. Animadv. Apology (12) 3. 323, 324; Eikonocl. (17) 157, 182, 190, 219; P. R. 2. 76, 79; 3. 379, 384, 417; 45) (4. 3. 216, 221; 3.465,468; Divorce (Pref.) 4. 7 (2. 13) 4. 94 (twice); Tetrach. (Deut. 24. 1, 2) 4. 180; (Matt. 19. 7, 8) 4. 215 (twice); Rupt. Com. 5. 401; Easy Way 5. 452, 454; 1 Defens. (2) 6. 30, 44;; (3) 7. 6. 62; (5) 6. 101, 103, 106; (12) 6. 185; Lit. Oliv. (57) (See also Memphis, Nile.) 306. Milton’s references to Egypt are almost all dependent on the Bible, and many of them figurative. He refers most often to the sojourn of the children of Israel in the land, and their escape from it, related in the Pent a teuch and mentioned in many other parts of the Bible. Eidora. Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 111. The River Eider, the northern boundary of Holstein. Ekron. Elbe. See AccaroD. See Elve. El Dorado. P. L. 11. 411. (See also Guiana.) A fabulous city, in the time of Milton believed to exist in the northern part of South America. It is shown, about two degrees north of the equator, on Blaeu’s map of Guiana published in 1662. (P. 259.) Sir Walter Raleigh, who made an expedition in search of El Dorado in 1595 and another in 1616, writes: “I have bene a ured by such of the Spaniards as have scene Manoa the Imperial Citie of Guiana, which the Spaniards call El Dorado, that for the greatne e, for the riches, for the excellent seat, it farre exceed eth any of the world, or at least of so much of the world as is knowen to the Spanish nation: upon a lake of salt water of 200 leagues long founded unto Mare it is like ch108.xhtml c 126