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... SPIRIT . Care and utmost shifts How to secure the Ladie from surprisall Brought to my mind a certaine shepheard lad Of small regard to see to , yet well skill'd In every vertuous plant , and healing herbe That spreds her verdant leafe ...
... SPIRIT . Care and utmost shifts How to secure the Ladie from surprisall Brought to my mind a certaine shepheard lad Of small regard to see to , yet well skill'd In every vertuous plant , and healing herbe That spreds her verdant leafe ...
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... spirits of balme , and fragrant syrops mixt . Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove borne Helena Is of such power to stirre up joy as this , To life so friendly , or so coole to thirst . COMUS A Maske COMUS A ...
... spirits of balme , and fragrant syrops mixt . Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove borne Helena Is of such power to stirre up joy as this , To life so friendly , or so coole to thirst . COMUS A Maske COMUS A ...
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... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth ... SPIRIT . What , have you let the false enchanter scape ? O yee mistooke , yee should have snatcht his wand And bound ...
... spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence , That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize , And the brute Earth ... SPIRIT . What , have you let the false enchanter scape ? O yee mistooke , yee should have snatcht his wand And bound ...
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... SPIRIT . Goddesse deare Wee implore thy powerfull hand To undoe the charmed band Of true virgin here distrest , Through the force , and through the wile Of unblest inchanter vile . SABRINA . Shepheard tis my office best To helpe ...
... SPIRIT . Goddesse deare Wee implore thy powerfull hand To undoe the charmed band Of true virgin here distrest , Through the force , and through the wile Of unblest inchanter vile . SABRINA . Shepheard tis my office best To helpe ...
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... Spirit with the two Brothers and the Ladie . SONG . SPIRIT . Back shepheards , back enough your play , Till next Sun - shine holiday , COMUS A Maske COMUS A Maske Here be without duck or nod , 27.
... Spirit with the two Brothers and the Ladie . SONG . SPIRIT . Back shepheards , back enough your play , Till next Sun - shine holiday , COMUS A Maske COMUS A Maske Here be without duck or nod , 27.
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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