...bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes of ladies judging the prize of wit is indeed with the poets a legitimate...

...In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen58 oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and...

...Selous, Corbould, and Tenniel. Tenniel's contribution to the book illustrates a pagan festive scene. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, with mask and antique pageantry. It is the critical passage in a poem celebrating the Richard Doyle, illustration...

...also like chivalric romances. The next passage sounds innocent, but again, it has troubling overtones: There let Hymen oft appear In Saffron robe, with Taper clear. And pomp, and feast, and revelery, With mask, and antique Pageantry Such sights as youthful Poets dream First, the passage echoes...

...Peace high triumphs hold, With store of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace,...Hymen oft appear In Saffron robe, with Taper clear. . . (1645: C2r/ 117- 26) Similar errors occur in "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" after "around"...

...bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. (11.77-80,117-124) In Elegia Septima the poet falls in love because he allowed his eyes to meet those...

...bold, In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend...Grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear 125 In Saffron robe, with Taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique Pageantry...

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...bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend...with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon,...

...bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry;...