...robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such eights To keep your sorrow waking. Love your lord No worse...love so well, Alas ! you may displease him ; so did Shakspcare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, Lap me...

...There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves, by haunted stream." ON the morning of a fine day, late in September, the Beechcroft bells were ringing merrily, and a wedding-procession...

...what plays he might see, yet one of his pleasures is the performance of the legitimate drama : — " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." Returning to " the pensive man," it...

...some famous lines from 'L' Allegro' Milton contrasts the different styles of Jonson and Shakespeare: Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, faney's ehild, Warble his native wood-notes wild. (131-4) This is usually taken to endorse Jonson's...

...his Cream-bowl duly set. (lines 100-6) When these tales are done, we move to more literary creations: Such sights as youthful Poets dream On Summer eves...against eating Cares, Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse. (lines 119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the Miltonic pantheon,...

...On summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock59 be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble...ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,60 Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding...

...one's youth, a childish toy to be put away in adulthood. The scene then switches to the public theatre: Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native Wood-notes wild (11. 131-34) Although these lines seem irreproachable, given the choice of dramatists, the speaker's...

..."unlettered" writers, comes from Milton's "L'Allegro" and describes Shakespeare in contrast to Ben Jonson: "Then to the well-trod stage anon / If Jonson's learned...Fancy's child /Warble his native woodnotes wild." 2. "Prefatory Letter," PSO, pp. vii—viii. 3. Clearly a quotation; an exact reference has not been...

...and thought, it enriches human experience. At this point Milton's lines in L'Allegro come to mind: ...pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. 3. Vasistha's advice on how the poor are to be treated, reflects a deep understanding of human psychology....

...kind of distinction in his poem 'L' Allegro': Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's leamed sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare fancy's child Warble his native wood-notes wild. Here 'leaming', and by implication the classical tradition, is given to Jonson, while Shakespeare is...