At every fall smoothing the raven down My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs, 255 And chid her barking waves into attention, 261 I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, 269 252 Of darkness] See T. Heywood's Love's Mistresse, p. 14, 4to. and Milton's Life, p. xv. note. 253 Circe] On Milton's having intermixed the Sirens' with 'Circe,' T. Warton's note may be consulted, p. 283. 253 barking] Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victorie and Triumph, 1632, p. 55. And more in heaps the barking surges band.' 259 Charybdis] Sil. Ital. xiv. 474. A. Dyce. 'Scyllæi tacuere canes, stetit atra Charybdis.' Warton. goddess] See Cowley's Love's Riddle, p. 117. That is address'd to unattending ears; 275 LAD. Dim darkness, and this leafy labyrinth. COM. Could that divide you from near-ushering guides? LAD. They left me weary on a grassy turf. 280 spring. return. COм. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. LAD. How easy my misfortune is to hit! COM. Imports their loss, beside the present need? LAD. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. In his loose traces from the furrow came, 273 extreme] Mirror for Mag. (ed. 1610) p. 430. 'In rustie armour, as in extream shift.' Todd. 292 292 loose] Benlowe's Theophila, p. 247 The tired oxe sent in loose traces home.' 'Medio die interjunaerunt.' Seneca de Tranq. Anirai, Cap. ult. vol. i. p. 385. See Lip. And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine Of some gay creatures of the element, 200 And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, LAD. Gentle Villager, 304 What readiest way would bring me to that place? Coм. Due west it rises from this shrubby point. LAD. To find that out, good Shepherd, I supIn such a scant allowance of star-light, [pose, Would overtask the best land-pilot's art, sius's note on the force of this word. See too Arati Diosem. ver. 93. 207 human] The editions vary in pointing, either after 'human,' or after 'they stood.' 301 plighted] Folded. Milton's H. of England, b. ii. ' she wore a plighted garment of divers colours.' Todd. 301 plighted clouds] Euripidis Orest. 1647. εv åɩ0épos πτυχᾶις. A. Dyce. And if your stray-attendants be yet lodg'd But loyal cottage, where you may be safe 315 320 LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, 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, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, 331 Unmuffle] Benlowe's Theophila, st. xxii. p. 202. 222. Unmuffle, ye dim clouds, and disinherit From black usurping mists.' Shirley's Young Admiral, act ii. sc. 2. not a star Muffled his brightness in a sullen cloud.' 331 See Gascoigne's Jocasta, p. 99. Lisle's Du Bartas, p. 106. Browne's Shepherd's Pipe, vol. iii. p. 41. 129. Thorney Abbey, p. 48, for the use of this word. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades; 335 With thy long-levell'd rule of streaming light; 310 2 BR. Or if our eyes 315 Be barr'd that happiness, might we but hear 350 334 disinherit] Nabbes's Microcosmus. Reed. ix. p. 116. air had best Confine himself to his three regions, Or else I'll disinherit him.' 340 rule] Eurip. Ικετ. 650. 'Ηλίου κανων σαφης. Hurd. 316 cock] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 199, Before the cock, light herald, day-break sings To his feathery dames.' |