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Youth, which give a full assurance, to all that know you, of a future excellence.
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BEFORE the starrie threshold of Joves Court My mansion is, where those
immortall shapes Of bright aereall Spirits live insphear'd In Regions mild of calme
and serene aire, Above the smoake and stirre of this dim spot Which men call
Earth, ...
BEFORE the starrie threshold of Joves Court My mansion is, where those
immortall shapes Of bright aereall Spirits live insphear'd In Regions mild of calme
and serene aire, Above the smoake and stirre of this dim spot Which men call
Earth, ...
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... all the aire, Stay thy clowdie Ebon chaire, Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat', and
befriend Us thy vow'd Priests, till utmost end Of all thy dues be done, and none
left out Ere the blabbing Easterne scout The nice Morne on th' Indian steepe
From ...
... all the aire, Stay thy clowdie Ebon chaire, Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat', and
befriend Us thy vow'd Priests, till utmost end Of all thy dues be done, and none
left out Ere the blabbing Easterne scout The nice Morne on th' Indian steepe
From ...
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Thus I hurle My dazling Spells into the spungie aire Of power to cheate the eye
with bleare illusion, And give it false presentments, lest the place And my queint
habits breed astonishment, And put the Damsel to suspicious flight, Which must ...
Thus I hurle My dazling Spells into the spungie aire Of power to cheate the eye
with bleare illusion, And give it false presentments, lest the place And my queint
habits breed astonishment, And put the Damsel to suspicious flight, Which must ...
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COMUS. Can any mortall mixture of Earths mould Breath such Divine inchanting
ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures
moves the vocal aire To testifie his hidden residence; COMUS How sweetly did ...
COMUS. Can any mortall mixture of Earths mould Breath such Divine inchanting
ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures
moves the vocal aire To testifie his hidden residence; COMUS How sweetly did ...
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aeternall agen aire amidst bowre BRACLY brest brother brute charme chast chastitie COMUS dance darknesse daughter of Locrine dazling deare doth drouth e're eare be true Earle of Bridgewater earth EDITION OF 1637 faire false farre Fathers feare feast flocks foule gentle glistring Goddesse gods golden goodnesse grace hallow hath head heard heav'n Hecat hidden strength honour immortall inchanted jocond JOHN MILTON Jove LADIE likenesse Listen and save lles Lord lov'd Love Ludlow Magick Maske mortall Mother Circe ne're nectar'd neere Nereus night Nymph praise prethee Queene Roaving sable cloud Turne SABRINA selfe shades Shepheard silver lining sister sits skie soft solemne Song soule spell SPIRIT starre streame Swaine sweet T'will tast tell thee thence thought Thrice upon thy Thyrsis trie true virgin vertue Vicount Virginitie wand wandring wave weeds wild wisard wish't wood worshipt yong youth
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Page 11 - 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 1 - change to her true Servants Amongst the enthron'd gods on Sainted seats. Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That ope's the palace of Eternity: To such my errand is, and but for such I would not
Page 18 - 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 23 - 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 6 - Begin to throng into my memorie Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire, And ayrie tongues, that syllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The vertuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion Conscience.— O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope
Page 20 - 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 21 - 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 12 - 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
Page 8 - Of Silence, through the emptie-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven downe Of darknesse till she smil'd: I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three Amidst the flowrie-kirtl'd Naiades Culling their Potent hearbs, and balefull drugs "Who as they sung, would take the prison'd
Page 6 - My Brothers when they saw me wearied out With this long way, resolving here to lodge Under the spreading favour of these Pines Stept as they se'd to the next Thicket side To bring me Berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide. They left me then, when the gray-hooded Ev'n Like a sad Votarist in
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| Title | Comus, a maske |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Elston Press, 1902 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 29 pages |
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