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to hear the plea That came in Neptune's plea ;

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He asked the waves, and ask'd the felon winds,
What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swain ?
And question'd every gust of rugged wings
That blows from off each beaked promontory:
They knew not of his story,

And sage Hippotades their answer brings,
That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd,
The air was calm, and on the level brine

95

100

Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd. Merend
It was that fatal and perfidious bark,
Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark,
That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.

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See note end of book bracinbt

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the bean fohe pilot of the Galilean lake;

104 handle made of river sparse which Float- copiously in Carmes

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Beaumont's Psyche, C. xviii. st. 56.

96 Hippotades] Æolus, the son of Hippotas, Hom. Od. x. 2. Ap. Rh. iv. 819. Ovid. Ep. ex Ponto, iv. x. 15, and elsewhere. Warton.

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99 Panope] Alciphron Ep. lib. i. xix. 74. ed. Bergler.
103 reverend] One brought a reverend syre!' Whiting's
Albino and Bellama, p. 5.

100 Galilean] Who on the troubled Galilean Lake.'

101 of Mabeth II 1

Hen. More's Poems, p. 322.

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Two massy keys he bore of metals twain,
(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain)

129 (Fing

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He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young

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Enow of such as for their bellies' sake of Sommet XVI y
Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? 115
Of other care they little reckoning make,
Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast,
And shove away the worthy bidden guest;

Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how

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A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least
That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!

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What recks it them? What need they? They are

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110 keys] Fletcher's Purple Island, c. vii. 62.

Not in his lips, but hands two keys he bore,

Heaven's doors and Hell's to shut and open wide.'

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and Dante Paradiso, v. 57. E della chiave.'

115 climb] Crept into the fold.' Prose Works, ii. 381, ed. Symmons.

121 herdman's] Milton writes it 'herdsman,' in his MS. 'Herdman,' is used in our transl. of the Bible, Amos i. 1. Todd.

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in Lernca fire feraning in other countries for lean

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw;
The hungry sheep look up, and are not féd, 125
But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they

draw,

'little'

Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread
Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw
Daily devours apace, and nothing said;
For two handed word
But that two-handed engine at the door
4. 134 1.2.1.49
Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
My. amite"
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past,
That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse,
And call the vales, and bid them hither cast
Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use
Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks,

121 Grate] Virg. Ecl. iii. 26.

solebus

Stridenti miserum stipulâ dispendere carmen.'

Newton.

125 sheep] See Past. Ægl. by L. B. ver. 130, on Sir P.
Sidney's death.

'Unhappie flock! that wander scattred now,
What marvell if through grief ye woxen leane,
Forsake your food, and hang your heads adowne!
For such a shepheard never shall you guide,

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Whose parting hath of weale bereft you cleane.
two-handed] Yet, maie the ax stande next the dore.'
Sir Smith's Psalms. Restituta. iv. 189. Rev. c I - II
i. e. frequent, inhabit. Spens. F. Q. Introd. b.

136

vi. st. 2

'In these strange waies, where never foot did use.'

125 This is literally have of all jabse rebijous kochipotle,

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On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks:

Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, fedtet, a pink

That on the green turf suck the honied showers,

And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. 141 Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, mapatur a species The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, Mufator The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with get, Faver hyacinth Ren/1.45

The glowing violet,

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The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, Fancy, val
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,
And every flower that sad embroidery wears:
Bid amarantus all his beauty shed,

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And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, 150

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To strow the laureate herse where Lycid lies. (mb of Bern
For so to interpose a little ease,

"Underneath this marline offen Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

Ay me! Whilst thee the shores, and sounding seas
Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd, 1:5
Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,

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Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world;

Or whether thou to our moist vows denied,

Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old,

Cornwall

Bello rom the Romano

138 swart] See Warton's note on this word.

153 dally] Gayton's Chartæ Scriptæ, p. 21.

rota

When our fond thoughts are wearied with the sports
O th' earth, we dally in the watry coasts.'

160

158 monstrous] The sea, the world of monsters. Hor. Od. i. 3. 18. Virg. Æn. vi. 729.

'Quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.'

Warton.
Cornwall

160 Orginally, M. wrote Corineus crifinal of

142 Milton first weite nuvedated which has the case melming of Winter's in6 IV 3 Pale primrose that for alices do 146 Orginally M. wrote "farish columbine who ha Substituted Subs to to the fable well allerd woodbine Preply in

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From Dover & the Mount

Where the great vision of the guarded mount Michael's

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Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth
And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
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,

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And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky; 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 oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, [In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. put ived. 1638 of the thirit of the Bride say: Come" her watery floor] Dante Purg. ii. 15. Sovra 'l suol

marino.' Davison's Poet. Rhapsodie, p. 78.

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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 im- .
mortal doth repair.' And Lucret. v. 733.

171 forehead] 'Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.'
Sylvest. Du Bartas, p. 25.
177 blest] Past. Ægl. on Sir P. Sidney's death, by L. B.
ver. 135.

'Phillisides is dead! O happie sprite

That now in heaven with blessed seules doest bide:
Looke down awhile from where thou sitst above,' &c.

Hey Cornwall crepelt outs into the western mun ts. lng in her eye, the pointed hell of fram

Namanes & Cantle of Bayons bithich
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