...hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swol'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Presumably, O'Neill is substituting "Rot inwardly with privy paw" with "Rot inwardly with privy maw"...

...swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus,...

...swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." (1:1794) Milton...

...in his lengthy note on the most famous and contested interpretative crux in Lycidas'. Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (Lycidas, 128-31)...

...swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. . . . (125-2.9) The "grim Wolf" here is the Roman Catholic Church, whom Milton renders elsewhere as...

...swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, K»t imvarfily, and foul contagion spread ; Beside; what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." Let us think over this passage, and examine its words First, is it not singular to find Milton assigning...