...herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, MI When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?...

...dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (11. 56-63) The inability of the Muses to protect their own leads Milton, as Evans writes, to question...

...Milton of one of his favourite stories, the myth of Orpheus: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down M3e stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (58-63) Poets die suddenly, and the...

...dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?14 Each set of female figures in the passage — nymphs, Muse, murderous maenads — is succeeded...

...dream! Had ye been there ... for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son? Whom...swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots it witli uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless...

...to magically shift its course as an omen of disaster. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, 60 Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (d) from Paradise Lost, 1667 These are the opening lines of Book 7 (1-39), at the mid-point of Paradise...

...dream! Had ye been there— for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?...

...Arc, 53. victorie to the inhabitants upon it" by changing its Whom Universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless...

...master in mournful strains." . Ovid 's " Metamorphoses. ' ' "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? ' ' Milton's "Lycidas." XIV ORPHANT ANNIE 135 ORSINO Orphant Annie. A bound girl, who is credited by...

...mother to defend him from the assaults of maddened women: What could the muse herself thac Orpheus bore, The muse herself for her enchanting son Whom...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent. (11. 58-62) So important is this figure of Orpheus to Milton's project of selffashioning as a poet...