And if your stray-attendants be yet lodg'd But loyal cottage, where you may be safe LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls 315 320 And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, 325 And yet is most pretended: in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. 1 BR. Unmuffle, ye faint stars, and thou, fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benizon, 881 Unmuffled] Benlowe's Theophila, st. xxii. p. 202. 222. 'Unmuffle, ye dim clouds, and disinherit 331 See Gascoigne's Jocasta, p. 99. Lisle's Du Bartas, p. 106 Browne's Shepherd's Pipe, vol. iii. p. 41. 129. Abbey, p. 48, for the use of this word. Thorney And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades; your influence be quite damm'd up Or if With black usurping mists, some gentle taper, Of some clay habitation, visit us 324 With thy long-levell❜d rule of streaming light; 340 And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure. 2. BR. Or if our eyes 345 Be barr'd that happiness, might we but hear 834 disinherit] Nabbes's Microcosmus. Reed. ix. p. 116. — air had best Confine himself to his three regions, Or else I'll disinherit him.' 840 rule: Eurip. 'Iket. 650. 'Hλíov kavùv oapńs. Hurd. 'Before the cock, light herald, day-break sings 350 What, if in wild amazement, and affright, 1 BR. Peace, Brother, be not over-exquisite I do not think my Sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, 360 870 And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, 861 For grant] This line obscures the thought, and loads the expression: it had been better out. Warburton. 876 seeks to] This expression, 'seeks to,' common in our transl. of the Bible. Isaiah xi. 10. Deut. xii. 5. 1 Kings x. 24. Eccles. iv. 12. Warton. Todd. 878 plumes] I believe the true reading to be 'prunes.' Warton. 380 That in the various bustle of resort 2 BR. 'Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, 885 390 395 400 880 to-ruffled] Todd and others have absurdly printed 'all-to ruffled.' To is a familiar intensive particle in the older English, the meaning of which, though often pointed out, is still misconceived: as by the recent printers of the English Bible, in Judges, ix. 53. C. 880 ruffled] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 222. 'Retreating to sweet shades our shattered thoughts we piece.' 889 senate] See Tooke's Div. of Purley, i. p. 90, ed. 4to. And let a single helpless maiden pass 1 BR. I do not, Brother, person Infer, as if I thought my Sister's state As you imagine; she has a hidden strength 2 BR. What hidden strength, 405 410 415 Unless the strength of Heav'n, if you mean that? 1 BR. I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength Which, if heav'n gave it, may be term'd her own; 'Tis chastity, my Brother, chastity: 420 She that has that, is clad in complete steel, 418 squint] Quarles's Feast for Wormes (1633), p. 48. Warton. 424 Infamous] Hor. Od. i. iii. 20. 'Infames scopulos.' Newton. |