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Gentleman's Magazine 1795 p.1078
earls of Leicester, on their monuments in the beautiful Beachamp chapel at Warwick, is another question; but, if it was, it may be doubted whether what is mistaken for the lynx be not the jagged branch, part of the ragged staff or pillar against which the bears lean, which without it would be smoother than the ragged staff is generally represented by Virgil's stipes gravidus nodis, AEn. VII. 507, and the nodosus stipes of Ovid, Ep. X. 101.
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