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... farre off . SONG . Sweet echo , sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseene Within thy ayrie shell By slow Meander's margent greene , And in the violet - imbroider'd vale Where the love - lorne Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth ...
... farre off . SONG . Sweet echo , sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseene Within thy ayrie shell By slow Meander's margent greene , And in the violet - imbroider'd vale Where the love - lorne Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth ...
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... Farre from the cheerefull haunt of men , and heards , And sits as safe as in a Senat house For who would rob an Hermit of his weeds His few books , or his beades , or maple dish , Or doe his gray hairs any violence ? But beautie like ...
... Farre from the cheerefull haunt of men , and heards , And sits as safe as in a Senat house For who would rob an Hermit of his weeds His few books , or his beades , or maple dish , Or doe his gray hairs any violence ? But beautie like ...
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... farre off each thing of sinne , and guilt , And in cleere dreeme , and solemne vision Tell her of things that no grosse eare can heare , Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beame on th ' outward shape The ...
... farre off each thing of sinne , and guilt , And in cleere dreeme , and solemne vision Tell her of things that no grosse eare can heare , Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beame on th ' outward shape The ...
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... farre off hallow breake the silent aire . SEC . BRO . Me thought so too , what should it be ? ELD . BRO . For certaine Either some one like us night founder'd here , Or else some neighbour wood man , or at worst Some roaving robber ...
... farre off hallow breake the silent aire . SEC . BRO . Me thought so too , what should it be ? ELD . BRO . For certaine Either some one like us night founder'd here , Or else some neighbour wood man , or at worst Some roaving robber ...
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... scalpe Downe to the hipps . SPIRIT . Alas good ventrous youth , I love thy courage yet , and bold Emprise , But here thy sword can doe thee little stead , COMUS A Maske COMUS A Maske Farre other arms , and other weapons 17.
... scalpe Downe to the hipps . SPIRIT . Alas good ventrous youth , I love thy courage yet , and bold Emprise , But here thy sword can doe thee little stead , COMUS A Maske COMUS A Maske Farre other arms , and other weapons 17.
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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