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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... night of darknesse , and of shades ; Or if your influence be quite damm'd up With black usurping mists , some gentle taper Though a rush candle from a wicker hole Of some clay habitation visit us With thy long levell'd rule of streaming ...
... night of darknesse , and of shades ; Or if your influence be quite damm'd up With black usurping mists , some gentle taper Though a rush candle from a wicker hole Of some clay habitation visit us With thy long levell'd rule of streaming ...
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... night , or lonelynesse it recks me not I feare the dred events that dog them both , Lest some ill greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister . ELD . BRO . I doe not brother Inferre , as if I thought my sisters state Secure ...
... night , or lonelynesse it recks me not I feare the dred events that dog them both , Lest some ill greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister . ELD . BRO . I doe not brother Inferre , as if I thought my sisters state Secure ...
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... night In fog , or fire , by lake , or moorish fen Blew meager hag , or stubborne unlayd ghost That breaks his magicke chaines at curfeu time No goblin , or swart Faërie of the mine Has hurtfull power ore true virginity . Doe yee beleeve ...
... night In fog , or fire , by lake , or moorish fen Blew meager hag , or stubborne unlayd ghost That breaks his magicke chaines at curfeu time No goblin , or swart Faërie of the mine Has hurtfull power ore true virginity . Doe yee beleeve ...
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... night founder'd here , Or else some neighbour wood man , or at worst Some roaving robber calling to his fellows . SEC . BRO . Heav'n keepe my sister , agen agen and neere , Best draw , and stand upon our guard . ELD . BRO . Ile hallow ...
... night founder'd here , Or else some neighbour wood man , or at worst Some roaving robber calling to his fellows . SEC . BRO . Heav'n keepe my sister , agen agen and neere , Best draw , and stand upon our guard . ELD . BRO . Ile hallow ...
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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