1894 Brewer’s / D / Dis
Pluto.
“Proserʹpine gathering flowers,
Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis
Was gathered.”
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Milton: Paradise Lost, iv 270.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.