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 Vain as a Peacock.Vale of Avo’ca 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Valdar’no.
 
The valley of the Arno, in Tuscany.   1
       
“—the Tuscan artist [Galileo] views
At evening from the top of Fesolë,
Or in Valdarno?”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 207–209.
 


 Vain as a Peacock.Vale of Avo’ca 

 
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