At every fall smoothing the raven down Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs, 255 264 I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, 269 Dwell'st here with Pan, or Silvan, by blest song 252 Of darkness] See T. Heywood's Love's Mistresse, p. 14, 4to. and Milton's Life, p. xv. note. 253 Circe] On Milton's having intermixed the 'Sirens' with 'Circe,' T. Warton's note may be consulted, p. 283. 258 barking] Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victorie and Triumph, 1632, p. 55. 'And more in heaps the barking surges band.' 259 Charybdis] Sil. Ital. xiv. 474. A. Dyce. Scyllæi tacuere canes, stetit atra Charybdis.' Warton. goddess] See Cowley's Love's Riddle, p. 117. That is address'd to unattending ears; Сом. What chance, good Lady, hath bereft you thus ? 275 LAD. Dim darkness, and this leafy labyrinth. Сом. Could that divide you from near-ushering guides? LAD. They left me weary on a grassy turf. 230 Сом. Ву falsehood, or discourtesy, or why? LAD. To seek i' th' valley some cool friendly spring. [Lady? COM. And left your fair side all unguarded, LAD. They were but twain, and purpos'd quick return. Сом. Perhaps forestalling night prevented them. LAD. How easy my misfortune is to hit! Сом. Imports their loss, beside the present need? LAD. No less than if I should my Brothers lose. Сом. Were they of manly prime, or youthful bloom? LAD. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. Сом. Two such I saw, what time the labour'd ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, 292 273 extreme] Mirror for Mag. (ed. 1610) p. 430. 'In rustie armour, as in extream shift.' Todd. The tired oxe 12 loose] Benlowe's Theophila, p. 247 sent in loose traces home.' 'Medio die interjunaerunt.' Seneca de Tranq. Animi, Cap. ult. vol. i. p. 385. See Lipsius's note on the force of this word. See too Arati Diosem. ver. 93. And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat; That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Of some gay creatures of the element, 200 That in the colours of the rainbow live, To help you find them. LAD. Gentle Villager, 304 What readiest way would bring me to that place? Dingle or bushy dell of this wild wood, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood; 297 human] The editions vary in pointing, either after 'human,' or after 'they stood.' 301 plighted] Folded. Milton's H. of England, b. ii. 'she wore a plighted garment of divers colours. Todd. 304 plighted clouds] Euripidis Orest. 1647. εν ἀιθέρος πτυχᾶις. Α. Dyce. And if your stray-attendants be yet lodg'd 315 320 LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, 325 And yet is most pretended: in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. Shepherd, lead on. Enter The TWO BROTHERS. 1 BR. Unmuffle, ye faint stars, and thou, fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benizon, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, 331 331 Unmuffle] Benlowe's Theophila, st. xxii. p. 202.222. 'Unmuffle, ye dim clouds, and disinherit From black usurping mists.' Shirley's Young Admiral, act ii. sc. 2. not a star Muffled his brightness in a sullen cloud.' See Gascoigne's Jocasta, p. 99. Lisle's Du Bartas, p. 106. Browne's Shepherd's Pipe, vol. iii. p. 41. 129. Thorney Abbey, p. 48, for the use of this word. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here 335 Of some clay habitation, visit us With thy long-levell'd rule of streaming light; 310 And thou shalt be our star of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure. 2 BR. Or if our eyes Be barr'd that happiness, might we but hear The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes, Or sound of past'ral reed with oaten stops, 345 350 Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock 334 disinherit] Nabbes's Microcosmus. Reed. ix. p. 116. Confine himself to his three regions, 340 rule] Eurip. Ικετ. 650. ̔Ηλίου κανων σαφης. Ηιωά. 316 cock] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 199, Before the cock, light herald, day-break sings To his feathery dames.' |