125 Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; 130 Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; 124 Grate] Virg. Ecl. iii. 26. เ solebus Stridenti miserum stipulâ dispendere carmen.' Newton. 135 125 sheep] See Past. Egl. by L. B. ver. 130, on Sir P. Sidney's death. 'Unhappie flock! that wander scattred now, Whose parting hath of weale bereft you cleane.' 180 two-handed] 'Yet, maie the ax stande next the dore.' Sir T. Smith's Psalms. Restituta. iv. 189. 186 use] i. e. frequent, inhabit. Spens. F. Q. Introd. b. vi. st. 2. 'In these strange waies, where never foot did use.' Newton. On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks: The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, 145 150 Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. 188 swart] See Warton's note on this word. 158 dally] Gayton's Chartæ Scriptæ, p. 21. 'When our fond thoughts are wearied with the sports 160 158 monstrous] The sea, the world of monsters. Hor. Od. t. 3. 18. Virg. Æn. vi. 729. 'Quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.' Warton. Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth. 166 Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky; 171 So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Thro' the dear might of him that walk'd the waves, Where other groves, and other streams along, With nectar pure his locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, oozy In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. 175 167 watery floor] Dante Purg. ii. 15. 'Sovra 'l suol marino.' Davison's Poet. Rhapsodie, p. 78. 169 repairs] Lidgate's Troy, p. 13, 'Long ere Titan 'gan make his repaire.' Browne's Brit. Past. p. 88, 'Breathes to the sullen night a soft repayre.' See Fletcher's Christ's Victory, ii. 12; and the Adamus Exul Grotii, p. 28, 35; and Marino's Slaugh. of the Innoc. p. 45. His light immortal doth repair.' And Lucret. v. 733. 171 forehead] 'Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.' Sylvest. Du Bartas, p. 25. 177 blest] Past Egl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. ver. 135. 'Phillisides is dead! Oh happy sprite That now in heaven with blessed seules doest bide: There entertain him all the saints above, 180 185 Thus sang the uncouth swain to th' oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray; 191 190 See Past. Egl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. ver. 159. 'The sun, lo! hastned hath his face to steep In western waves; and th' aire with stormy showres, 198 To-morrow] Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. 'To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, 10 The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: 18 too bright] Hor. Od. i. xix. 5. 'Nimium lubricus aspici.' 19 Ethiop] Noctem Ethiopissam.' Miltoni Prolus. p. 73. |