Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp 2 BR. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, 1 B. List, list, I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. 2 B. Methought so too; what should it be? 1 B. For certain Either some one like us night-founder'd here, Or else some neighbour woodman, or, at worst, Some roving robber calling to his fellows. 475 480 485 2 B. Heav'n keep my Sister. Again, again, and Best draw, and stand upon our guard. 1 B. I'll halloo; [near; If he be friendly, he comes well; if not, Defence is a good cause, and Heav'n be for us. Enter the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, habited like a shepherd. That halloo I should know, what are you? speak; 478 Apollo's] Love's Lab. Lost, activ. sc. iii. Come not too near, you fall on iron stakes else. 2 B. O brother, 'tis my father's shepherd, sure. 1 B. Thyrsis? Whose artful strains have oft Hy Lawes delay'd 495 The huddling brook to hear his madrigal, 506 As a stray'd ewe, or to pursue the stealth 510 SPIR. Aye me unhappy! then my fears are true. briefly show. SPIR. I'll tell ye; 'tis not vain or fabulous, H Pens, 120 Though so esteem'd by shallow ignorance, where more; mant What the sage poets, taught by th' heavenly Muse,than meets the car' 509 sadly] Soberly, seriously. P. L. vi. 541. Newton. 495 Bok Jaws & Milton's rather comprised madrigals Shepherd wory Madrigal (from Himandra) a Storied of old in high immortal verse, Dereed I! 2ff Of dire chimeras, and inchanted isles, And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell; For such there be, but unbelief is blind. 520 Within the navel of this hideous wood, Fixes instead, unmolding reason's mintage 525 530 exclisme Tending my flocks hard by i' th' hilly crofts, adjania far That brow this bottom-glade, whence, night by 541 night, He and his monstrous rout are heard to howl, In their obscured haunts of inmost bowers. 535 Yet have they many baits, and guileful spells, 520 navel] Ætolos, qui umbilicum Græciæ incolerent. Liv. lib. xxxv. c. 18. I sat me down to watch upon a bank With flaunting honey-suckle, and began, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, 545 Till fancy had her fill, but ere a close, final cadence The wonted roar was up amidst the woods, And fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance; 550 Still to be so displac'd. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul 555 560 Too well I did perceive it was the voice 570 553 drowsy frighted] So eds. 1637, 1645, 1673. Cant. MS. and Newton, 'drowsy-flighted.' 555 Nightingale called "Sobre bird Titence 557 nce was pleased by mightiful Won Lest IV 604 575 Where that damn'd wisard, hid in sly disguise, 2 BR. O night and shades, How are ye join'd with Hell in triple knot, 1 BR. Yes, and keep it still, Lean on it safely; not a period Shall be unsaid for me: against the threats 580 585 Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm, Surpris'd by unjust force, but not inthrall'd; 590 the Power of Evil Yea even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory: But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, 595 595 of T of FIVE the filters of Leaves tremble, are astonished fuller, out his reproof & 2 Memorian XXXIX · Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust yashes all that is " |