What, if in wild amazement, and affright, 1 BR. Peace, Brother, be not over-exquisite forecast as in To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, I do not think my Sister so to seek, 360 nativities. of the principia 370 And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Where with her best nurse Contemplationidney's Arcadia Son trive the She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, 361 For grant] This line obscures the thought, and loads the expression: it had been better out. Warburton. 376 seeks to] This expression, 'seeks to,' common in our transl. of the Bible. Isaiah xi. 10. Deut. xii. 5. 1 Kings 12. Warton. Todd. x. 24. Eccles. iv. 373 378 plumes] I believe the true reading to be prunes.' Warton. Lovers can see I do their amorous rits Rem Juli. III 2 of Contemplation 380 Richardson all-to-entacle, and to intensifies force ofvert like ferman zer guarded by the Sistepless drag. Ladon That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 2 BR. 'Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 385 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope 395 400 of Beauty provoketh there comer than fold-o You Like It 380 all-to] So read as in editions 1637, 1645, 1673, not 3 'too ruffled;' 'all-to' is entirely. See Tyrwhitt's Gloss. Chauc. v. To. Upton's Gloss. Spens. v. all.' Warton. 360 ruffled] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 222. Retreating to sweet shades our shattered thoughts we piece.' 389 senate] See Tooke's Div. of Purley, i. p. 90, ed. 4to. Insatiate Countess 301 of Carston "Tich boy (Rough bright yer) like the morning (ark sent that's dear is light, the heave, be dark And let a single helpless maiden pass I fear the dread events that dog them both, 1 BR. I do not, Brother, Infer, as if I thought my Sister's state 2 BR. What hidden strength, 405 410 415 Unless the strength of Heav'n, if you mean that? 1 BR. I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength, Which, if heav'n gave it, may be term'd her own; 'Tis chastity, my Brother, chastity: 420 She that has that, is clad in complete steel, 413 squint] Quarles's Feast for Wormes (1633), p. 48. Warton. 424 Infamous] Hor. Od. i. iii. 20. Infames scopulos.' 413 of Ill spoken off Newton. foul, ill-favoured & frion Under his eyebrows Hosking still ackand 427 of. Tempot D. Who would believe that there were mountamises Derg-lappid like butle Hae-eyed hap 96 Vield ruster monthseer. COMUS. Where through the sacred rays of chastity, 42! Yea there, where very desolation dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, 430 not turning pale She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow, 440 And spotted mountain pard, but set at nought 426 bandite] Tickell changed 'bandite' into ' banditti,' and 129 shagg'd] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 226. 'Embost with trees, with bushes shagg'd.' 132 Some say] Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1. But then, they say 433 fog] Milton here had his eye on Fletcher's F. Shep- 43508 She is the ford fond Hespertijabbet, de befinis cut curfiers, walks till the first cock of size Journal of a Fourie, Cumberland, Oct.3 (4.525) punder Crowser projecting hill hassed with wood Fear'd her stern frown, and she was queen o' th' woods. What was that snaky-headed Gorgon shield, And noble grace that dash'd brute violence 450 455 460 from the 465 And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, 449 'freez'd] Dante Inferno, c. ix. Che se 'l Gorgon si mostra. 455 liveried] Nabbes's Microcosmus, p. 22. 469 divine] Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 79. 'Atque affligit humo divinæ particulam auræ!' Todd. 457 Viscoms are a clearer revelation of fod then dreams quiter in Barns Essay in Youth is |