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... LADIE ENTERS . This way the noise was , if mine eare be true My best guide now , me thought it was the sound Of Riot , and ill manag'd Merriment , Such as the jocond Flute , or gamesome Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds When ...
... LADIE ENTERS . This way the noise was , if mine eare be true My best guide now , me thought it was the sound Of Riot , and ill manag'd Merriment , Such as the jocond Flute , or gamesome Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds When ...
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... Ladie hath bereft you thus ? LADIE . Dim darknesse , and this leavie Labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from neere - ushering guides ? LADIE . They left me weary on a grassie terfe . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesie , or why ?
... Ladie hath bereft you thus ? LADIE . Dim darknesse , and this leavie Labyrinth . COMUS . Could that divide you from neere - ushering guides ? LADIE . They left me weary on a grassie terfe . COMUS . By falsehood , or discourtesie , or why ?
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... LADIE . Gentle villager What readiest way would bring me to that place ? COMUS . Due west it rises from this shrubbie point . LADIE . To find out that good shepheard I suppose In such a scant allowance of starre light Would overtask the ...
... LADIE . Gentle villager What readiest way would bring me to that place ? COMUS . Due west it rises from this shrubbie point . LADIE . To find out that good shepheard I suppose In such a scant allowance of starre light Would overtask the ...
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... Ladie where is she , How chance she is not in your companie ? ELD . BRO . To tell thee sadly shepheard , without blame Or our neglect , wee lost her as wee came . SPIRIT . Aye me unhappie then my fears are true . ELD . BRO . What fears ...
... Ladie where is she , How chance she is not in your companie ? ELD . BRO . To tell thee sadly shepheard , without blame Or our neglect , wee lost her as wee came . SPIRIT . Aye me unhappie then my fears are true . ELD . BRO . What fears ...
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... knew ) had met Alreadie , ere my best speed could prævent The aidlesse innocent Ladie his wish't prey , Who gently ask't if he had seene such two Supposing him some neighbour villager ; Longer I durst not stay , but soone I guess't 16.
... knew ) had met Alreadie , ere my best speed could prævent The aidlesse innocent Ladie his wish't prey , Who gently ask't if he had seene such two Supposing him some neighbour villager ; Longer I durst not stay , but soone I guess't 16.
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agen aire bowre brest charme chast chastitie Circe commits to severall COMUS A Maske dance darknesse doth drouth e're eare Earle of Bridgewater Earth farre feare flocks foule gentle give my severall Goddesse golden goodnesse H. M. O'Kane hallow Harvard Harvard College hast heard heav'n Hecat heire apparent hidden strength honour honour'd i'th inchanted JOHN MILTON key That ope's LADIE Listen Locrine lov'd lovely Ludlow Castle Magick maine He quarters MASKE BY JOHN Maske COMUS mortall ne're neather Jove Imperial neere Nereus nurs't in Princely Nymph ô oh præsent Præsident of Wales Princely lore COMUS Printed for HVMPHREY Privie Counsell receiv'd RIGHT Honorable rightfull devotion Saphire crowns selfe severall friends satisfaction shades Shepheard sister sits skie smoake and stirre soft Song soule spell Spirits live insphear'd starre Swaine thou thought Vicount BRACKLY virgin wand wandring weare their Saphire weeds WILD WOOD wish't
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Page 3 - Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his owne
Page 10 - Would sit, and hearken even to extasie, And in requitall ope his leather'n scrip, And shew me simples of a thousand names Telling their strange, and vigorous faculties, Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out; The leafe was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another
Page 15 - Of this pure cause would kindle my rap't spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high "Were shatter'd into heaps ore thy false head. COMUS. She fables not, I
Page 12 - and sallow Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature powre her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks Thronging the seas with spawne innumerable But all to please, and sate the curious tast? And set to work millions of spinning worms,
Page 13 - would be unthank't, would be unprais'd, Not hälfe his riches known, and yet despis'd, And we should serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth, And live like Natures bastards, not her sons, "Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight, And strangl'd with her wast fertilitie;
Page 4 - To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. You may as well spread out the unsun'd heaps Of misers treasure by an outlaws den And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope Danger will winke on opportunitie And let a single