In Homer Wrice mymph nor ha The anythis. do with the How Ep 1, 2.23 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs, 255 And chid her barking waves into attention, I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, 264 And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder! Dwell'st here with Pan, or Silvan, by blest song 269 treads To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood. praise 252 Of darkness] See T. Heywood's Love's Mistresse, 253 Circe] On Milton's having intermixed the 'Sirens' And more in heaps the barking surges band.' multes circum latiartiten, undis Hervid 259 Charybdis] Sil. Ital. xiv. 474. A. Dyce. 'Scyllæi tacuere canes, stetit atra Charybdis.' Warton. 267 goddess] See Cowley's Love's Riddle, p. 117. 253 Cird's 4 mynychs were going from the south is the five & the saved weaver & these that flow of the 201 (91350) That is address'd to unattending ears; COм. What chance, good Lady, hath bereft you thus ? 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 COм. By falsehood, or discourtesy, or why? LAD. To seek i' th' valley some cool friendly spring. [Lady? Coм. And left your fair side all unguarded, LAD. They were but twain, and purpos'd quick return. COM. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. LAD. How easy my misfortune is to hit! Coм. Imports their loss, beside the present need? LAD. No less than if I should my Brothers lose. COм. Were they of manly prime, or youthful bloom? LAD. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. COM. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox 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 The tired oxe 292 loose] Benlowe's Theophila, p. 247 sent in loose traces home.' Medio die interjunxerunt.' Seneca de Tranq. Animi, 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 That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Of some gay creatures of the element, 300 And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, LAD. Gentle Villager, 304 [pose, What readiest way would bring me to that place? 207 human] The editions vary in pointing, either after 301 plighted] Folded. Milton's H. of England, b. ii.' she wore a plighted garment of divers colours.' Todd. entre enbroded, 30 plighted clouds] Euripidis Orest. 1647. εν αιθέρος Μαίες πτυχᾶις. 4. Dyce. E prrocchè nelle corti anticamente lo vistudi e li belli costumi s'usarano (Siccome oggi s'use it contrario, i si tôle questo rocobolo dalle coti; a fur cand a dive contagia quant a COMUS. cortè 91 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, Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. I BR. Unmuffle, ye faint stars, and thou, fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benizon, 331 Unmuffle] Benlowe's Theophila, st. xxii. p. 202. 222. 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. 332 of of the poor Kaveller that went estrang With them, and beefing he is tried (hmoid) Forry Quim 143 322 of Courts it seems men courtesy do call for theat if there most useth to abound 341. Cal to dauflette of Lyear king of Arcadia was chaved into the Greath Bead (Alice) other amcArca into the Lesser Bear (Cynosura). Syrian because Phanicians steered byst 92 COMUS. 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 3.45 Be barr'd that happiness, might we but hear 3.50 334 disinherit] Nabbes's Microcosmus. Reed. ix. P. 116. Confine himself to his three regions, Or else I'll disinherit him.' 340 rule] Eurip. Ikɛt. 650. 'Hλíov kavwv σapns. Hurd. 'Before the cock, light herald, day-break sings |