Saw him disfigur'd, more than could befall As he suppos'd, all unobserv'd, unseen. 1.30 Of Eden, where delicious paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head 135 Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend 146 Shade above shade, a woody theatre • Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops Of goodliest trees loaden with fairest fruit, 145 155 138 shade] shaft, Bentl. MS. and again ver. 141, 'Shaft above shaft.' 141 woody theatre] v. Senecae Troades, ver. 1127. Erecta medium vallis includens locum, Crescit theatri more." Virg. Æn. v. 288. and Solini Polyhist. c.xxxviii. v. I.j cophr. Cassandra, ver. 600. θεατρομόρφῳ κλίτει Appear'd, with gay enamel'd colours mixt: 151 in] Hume, Bentley, and Warton would read ' on fair evening cloud.' 162 Sabean odours] See Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xii. c. 42. 19. • Magnique Alexandri classibus Arabiam odore primum nuntiatam in altum.' Compare a passage in Ovington's Voyage to Surat, p. 55 (1696). • We were pleased with the prospect of this island, because we had been long strangers to such a sight; and it gratified us with the fragrant smells which were wafted from the shore, from whence, at three leagues distance, we scented the odours of flowers and fresh herbs; and what is very observable, when after a tedious stretch at sea, we have deemed ourselves to be near land by our observation and course, our smell in dark and misty weather has outdone the acuteness of our sight, and we have discovered land by the fresh smells, before we discovered it with our eyes. See also Davenport's City Night-cap,' act v. 'The Indian winds That blow off from the coast, and cheer the sailor [league Of Arabie the blest, with such delay Who came their bane, though with them better pleas'd 170 175 Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume, 180 186 Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Benlowe's Theophila, p. 44. Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 For prospect, what well us'd had been the pledge Of immortality. So little knows Any, but God alone, to value right 201 The good before him, but perverts best things 25 To all delight of human sense expos'd 210 190 Cross-barr'd] ' Cross-barr'd and double lockt.' Heywood's Hierarchie, p. 510, folio, (1635). 191 In at the window] v. Spenser's Fairy Queen, lib. i. c. 3. ver. 17. He was to weet a stout and sturdy thief, Then he by cunning slights in at the window crept.' Dwelt in Telassar. In this pleasant soil 215 High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit 220 Our death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill. Southward through Eden went a river large, Nor chang'd his course, but through the shaggy hill 230 Runs diverse, wand'ring many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account; 235 But rather to tell how, if art could tell, Ilow from that saphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, 237 crisped brooks] • Tremuloque alarum remige crispat A. Ramsæi Poem. Sacr. ed. Lauder, i. p. 3. 233 orient pearl] See Sir D. Lindsay, ed. Chalmers, ii. 327. ' Lyke orient perlis.' |