And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns His uncontrollable intent: His servants he, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, 1755 1755 acquist] Heath's Chron. of Civil Wars, fol. p. 402, 'his unjust acquists.' Todd. Note] It was the custom of the scholars who lived in the age just previous to that of Milton, and who possessed a command of poetical language, to form dramas in Latin verse from scripture Histories. Besides the two volumes of the 'Dramata Sacra;' there is the 'Abramus' of Th. Beza, the 'Parabata Vinctus' of Thuanus, the Christus Patiens,' the Sophom-paneas,' and the Adamus Exsul,' of Grotius, the 'Jephthas,' and 'Baptistes' of Buchanan, the Herodes Infanticida' of Dan. Heinsius. These I have read, probably there are others with which I am not acquainted; there are also many Italian Dramas formed on the sacred histcry, and our old mysteries. The Greek translation of this play by G. H. Glasse, has been pronounced to be 'a work constructed with such precision, and expressed with such elegance, as never appeared in Europe since the revival of learning.' Parr's Letters, i. p. 637. Published by Lawes 16 37, without mouse "Commo" "Altho not openly acknowledged by the Author, retiti a legitimate offspring, so lovely lovely & so much desired, that the often copying of it hath tired my per & five my Averal friends satisfaction brought me producing it to the hublic rear. Lawes add that he (.) was in this representation your servant Thy: THE PERSONS. acted by The attendant SPIRIT, afterwards in the habit of THYRSIS. COMUS with his crew. The LADY. First BROTHER. Second BROTHER. SABRINA the Nymph. The chief persons who presented were The Lord BRackley. Mr. THOMAS EGERTON, his brother. The Lady ALICE EGERTON. 10 chasse, a figure in The in figure in a dance, of Love's Labour LitL I 2 I They within though pested with their va COMUS, A MASK, THE FIRST SCENE DISCOVERS A WILD WOOD. The Attendant SPIRIT descends or enters.* BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd Plate sprit is to be Which men call Earth, and with low-thoughted care 5 After this mortal change, to her true servants, 10 * The Attendant Spirit] The Spirit is called 'Dæmon' in the Cambridge MS. Warton. of Antill. Thy Damon, that's they shal And thus with winges, and bowe came I Newly from Jove's high courte in skie.' 7 pester'd] Crowded. Ital. Pesta, a crowd. v. Hall's Sat. b. iv. s. 7. Todd. 7 Pufeld & pound of Two Gentlenes of Kermo I, 1,114 You mistake a 5 of み found. a sunfold" "the dirt is clay That some call life" Harrington's tristo 43.186 |