Albracca

P. R. 3. 339. A fortre of Cathay, the siege of which is related by Boiardo 10 ff. With Milton’s reference to the numbers at Albracca compare: “We shall see more armed in the Orlando In nam or a to 1. Knights than were at the siege of Albracca, to conquer Angelica (Don Quixote, trans. Shelton, 2.2.) the faire.” Alcairo. See Memphis. Alcinous, Garden of. fens. 6. 257. Eleg. 3. 44; P. L. 5. 341; 9. 441; 2 De- (See also Adonis, Garden of.) Alcinous, king of the Pha?acians, had near his palace a garden “Hard by the door is a great described by Homer as follows: garden, of four ploughgates, and a hedge runs round on either side. And there grow tall trees blo oming, pear-trees and pomegranates, and apple-trees with bright fruit, and sweet figs, and olives in their bloom. The fruit of these trees never per is heth neither faileth, winter nor summer, enduring throughout all the Evermore the West Wind blowing brings some fruit to Pear upon pear waxes old, and apple on apple, yea and cluster ripens upon cluster of the grape, and fig upon fig. There too hath he a fruitful vineyard planted, whereof the one part is being dried by the heat, a sunny plot on level ground, while other grapes men are gathering, and yet others they are treading in the wine-pre . In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast the blo om, and others there be that are growing black to vintaging. There too, skirting the furthest line, are all manner of garden beds, planted trimly, that are perpetually fresh, and therein are two fountains of water, year. birth and ripens others. whereof one scatters his streams all about the garden.” {Ody ey 7. 112-30.) Alclud. See Edinburgh. 29