That came in Neptune's plea ; 90 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, And sage Hippotades their answer brings, 95 100 Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge 105 Like to that sanguine flow'r inscrib'd with woe. Ah! Who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge? Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake; 93 question'd] 'And question'd each wind that came that way.' Beaumont's Psyche, C. xviii. st. 56. 96 Hippotades] 2. Ap. Rh. iv. 819. elsewhere. Warton. olus, the son of Hippotas, Hom. Od. x. Ovid. Ep. ex Ponto, iv. x. 15, and 99 Panope] Alciphron Ep. lib. i. xix. 74. ed. Bergler. 103 reverend] One brought a reverend syre!' Whiting's Albino and Bellama, p. 5. 109 Galilean]Who on the troubled Galilean Lake.' Hen. More's Poems, p. 322. Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain) 110 He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake, How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? 115 Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 121 Beaumont's Psyche, c. xvi. st. 140, and 141. 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.' 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. Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; draw, 125 130 Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; 125 sheep] See Past. Ægl. by L. B. ver. 130, on Sir P. Sidney's death. 'Unhappie flock! that wander scattred now, Whose parting hath of weale bereft you cleane. 6 130 two-handed] Yet, maie the ax stande next the dore.' Sir T. Smith's Psalms. Restituta. iv. 189. 136 use] i. e. frequent, inhabit. Spens. F. Q. Introd. b. vi. st. 2. 'In these strange waies, where never foot did use.' Newton. On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks : The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, To strow the laureate herse where Lycid lies. 145 150 Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. 138 swart] See Warton's note on this word. 153 dally] Gayton's Chartæ Scriptæ, p. 21. • 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. Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; 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; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, 166 And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore 175 167 watery floor] Dante Purg. ii. 15. Sovra 'l suol marino.' Davison's Poet. Rhapsodie, p. 78. 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 immortal 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. |