123 Edw. King bows 1612 at Boyle in lock son ofte stwie King accretary for Ireland under Elizabeth, Fam! pt. Meife of Charles I; lected -ellow 1630 accorda to royal mandale Pator & fellow as X's Coll. praelector, wrote various complimentary Extin verses IN 'cetten Nov. 1637, pub. 1638 in to one, latin Greek, the second English Obeques of the memorie of King Anno dom. 163t Freides signed only J. M. last piece in volume. v Melton's mother had died in 1637. Apr. 3. collection of verze on Edw. Kay, ane LYCIDAS. nime In this Monody, the author bewails a learned friend, unfor- rupted clergy, then in their height. (talyforit in 1645ed. of M.'s poems) In the 3 yrs they had had written no YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more since Comms, J. Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Compels me to disturb your season due: 2 myrtles brown] Hor. Od. i. 25. 17. • Pulla magis atque 8 dead] 'Phillisides is dead.' Past. Ægl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. v. 8 (Todd's Spenser, viii. 76), and v. 71. 'Sweet bowres of myrtel twigs, and lawrel faire.' 10 Who] Neget quis carmina Gallo.' Virg. Ecl. x. 3. Peck. 12 watery] See Theod. Prodrom. Dos. et Rhod. Am. p. 254, ed. Gaulm. If is obvions from the step itself that Milton's relative & Ed. King specially Fender relation Mark Pat wice, ( 88 x 132, M. rocals himself whe speak of from his heart. his most characteristic thoughts. thoughts out of harmony with th If he poem. Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 15 Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour destin'd urn, 20 47 And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, 14 melodious] Cleveland's Obsequy on Mr. King, 'I like 17 sweep] Purg. i. 9. Todd. E qui Calliopea alquanto surga,' Dante 19 Muse] Gentle Muse-he passes." See Jortin's Tracts, i. p. 341. 23 nurs'd] Compare Past. Ægl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B. ver. 85. Through many a hill and dale, &c.' 26 opening] Middleton's Game at Chess. - Like a pearl, Dropp'd from the opening eyelids of the morn.' And Crashaw's Translation of Marino, The lids of day.' Batt'ning] Drayton's Ecl. ix. Warton, Todd. 'Their battening flocks on grassie leas to hold.' Warton. 26 Marlowe's Jew of Mallá 11 1,58 New Phrebus ope the eye hill about 18 Sophock Antigue uses fatos83 348 Fauns presided over fields; Satips oved woody plans, Sylvandould momthin word: Jams ha atyp had mother 30. Jay Keightley He surely could not mean the evening atau fruit appear not rites, & it is never anywhere but on LYCIDAS. "he aven's 125 34) Milton write first: "Off till the ever stay bright "burnich' whiat Oft till the star that rose, at evening, bright, 30 Toward heav'n's descent had slop'd his west'ringers 85 Rough Satyrs danc'd, and Fauns with cloven heel But, O the heavy change, now thou art gone, 36 Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves Woh Clont And all their echoes mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. geus fill Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. [deep 51 6, Oka Dadry ÉTÁKETO, DIE POKA Temper'd] On this word see P. Fletcher's Purple Isl. c. ix. st. 3. Par. Lost, vii. 598. Warton. 37 thou art gone] Browne's Sheph. Pipe (ecl. 4). But he is gone. 50 Where] Spenser's Astrophel, st. 22, Ah, where were ye the while his shepheard peares, &c. Warton. E 46 Tunt a small red spider by the country people accounted a cons those who, if they suddenly only day they have had a thint Brownstellen b poison will common 41 Adonais: Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, 55 Grayton calls the "Helve with the Dee was Days ancient hallowed a 162 L98 it 70 Joe Hist. If 6 "Want quibus adpetention fance videretur quando Cham sapventions cupido grovice novisma exuitur 55 Draustin say, 125ttat de CIDAS. of Theverity, 166 Wild X G Did Axides &'ows it ford to see metold 60 Alas! what boots it with incessant care Musam melar And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) ree car abends pbook I didly potter I will not deny his appetite for flony whiche perous mund cub late Moss wisard] on the wisard stream of Deva, consult Warton's Arviss Jay, the note. 63 swift] Vir. En. 1. 321. 'Volucremque fuga prævertitur Hebrum.' tangles] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 2. Warton. 69 Entangled thoughts in the trammels of their ambush hair.' Greene's never too late, Entangle men in their tresses.' 70 Fame]"Quasi hic subesset ingens Cupido gloriæ quæ ed. Ox. of etiam sapientibus novissima exuitur." Strada Prelu. p. 161. a desires of honom s refinte & immortal • ame Leoted in the breast of every time scholen Milton becte 1632 cf. Paris et 31. Du between Urania earthly Muse far off the barbarous diporance 72 "He himself giving an example wothese under him of hard Ed. Phillipe study & opare diet" M. TYCIDAS. 127 "where" 740xte 72 cf. Wordsworth's "Plam ting & high thinking. 86 Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies; 80 Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed. papein a Fate his O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Atua ben That strain I heard was of a higher mood: And listens to the herald of the sea ४ For what is glory but the blaze of fame.' Warton. 75 blind] Spenser's R. of Rome. st. xxiv. 'If the blind Furie which warres breedeth oft.' Warton. 77 touched] Virg. Ecl. vi. 3. -Cynthius aurem Vellit, et admonuit. 79 foil] See Shakes. Henry IV. act. i. s. 2. Peck. Warton. 85 fountain] Hom. Od. xiii. 408. Kρývn'Apɛ0ovoŋ. Virg. 87 higher] I'll tune my reed unto a higher key.' Browne's Brit. Past. iv. 41. To capture till the savage clamon drown'd |