v. 219. Would fend a glistering cherub, if need were. v. 231. Within thy ayrie cell. Cell is in the margin. Before Comus fpeaks, at v. 244, is this STAGE-DIRECTION, "Comus looks in and Speaks." v. 252. Of darknesse till she smil'd. v. 257, Scylla would weepe, Chiding her barking waves into attention. v. 268. Liv't here with Pan and Sylvan. v. 270. To touch the profpering growth of this tall wood, v. 279. Could that divide you from thire ufhering hands, v. 280. They left me wearied on a graffie turf. v. 304. To help you find them out. v. 310. Without fure fteerage of well practiz'd feet. v. 312. Dingle or bufhie dell of this wide wood, v. 316. Within these Shroudie limits. v. 321. Till further queft be made. 329.Square this tryal. After v. 330, STAGE-DIRECTION. 6. Exeunt.The two Bro "thers Enter." v. 340. With a long-levell'd rule of streaming light. Perhaps fome cold banke is her boulfter now, So fares, as did for faken Proferpine, When the big wallowing flakes of pitchie clouds 1 Br. Peace, brother, peace. I do not think my fifter, &c. Dead folitude is alfo furrounding wild. Some of the additional lines (v. 350.-366.) are on a feparate flip of paper, v. 362. The date of grief, v, 365. This felf-delufion. v. 371. Could stirre the table mood of her calme thoughts. v. 384. Walks in black vapours, though the noon-tide brand Blaze in the fummer-folftice. v. 390. For who would rob a hermit of his beads, v. 400. His books, or his haire gowne, or maple-dish? v. 252. The ed. of 1637, and Afhridge manufcript read also she. ,270. Altered with judgment to profperous; for tall wood implies full grown, to which profperous agrees, but profpering implies it not to be full grown. WARBURTON. v. 371. Stable gives the idea of reft, when the poet was to give the idea of action or motion, which conftant does give. WARBURTON. v. 390. So in IL PENS. V. 169. The hairy gown and moffy cell. WARTON. 4 v. 403. Uninjur'd in this vaft and hideous wild. I could be willing, though now i' th' darke, to trie But where an equal poife of hope and fear. For encounter he had firft written paffado, and hopes and fears. Be it not don in pride or wilfull tempting, Walk through huge forrefts and unharbour'd heaths, v. 428. Ye ev'n where very defolation dwells. Blue wrinckled hag, or stubborne unlaid ghost. v. 448. That wife Minerva wore, æternal virgin. Then, unvanquish'd, then, unconquer'd. v. 452. With fuddaine adoration of her purenesse. Then, bright rayes, then, blank are. . 454. That when it finds a foul fincerely fo. v. 465. And moft by the lafcivious act of fin. v. 471. Oft feene in charnel vaults, and monuments, Hovering, and fitting by a newe-made grave, v. 481. Lift, lift, methought I heard. . 485. Some curl'd man of the sword calling to his fellows. v. 403. So the verfe was at firft. At prefent it ftands in the manufcript, Uninjur'd in this wide furrounding waste. And I know not whether wide is not better than wild, which feems to be fufficiently implied in wafte. NEWTON. v. 411. Perhaps from Shakspeare's "fhag-ear'd villain." MACBETH, A. iv. S. iii. EDITOR. v. 472. The ed. of 1637, and Athridge manuscript read also bɩvering. ศ. 485. This alluded to the fashion of the Court Gallants at that time: and what follows continues the allufion, Had beft look to his forebead; here be brambles. But I fuppofe he thought it might give offence: and he was not yet come to an open defiance with the Court. WARBURTON. Sylvefter, Du BART. ed. fol. ut. fupr. p. 217. characterises effeminate perfons, as having a maiden voice, and mincing pafe, Quaint looks, curl'd locks, perfumes, and painted face.. This fashion had, not long before Comus was written, occafioned the publication of that strange and laughable pamphlet by Prynne, entitled "The Unlouelinefs of Loue-lockes, &c. London, 1628," in which he folemnly main v. 490. Had beft looke to his forehead: here be brambles. STAGE-DIRECTION. "He hallows: the guardian dæmon hallows "again, and enters in the habit of a Shepherd " v. 491. Come not too neere; you fall on pointed stakes elfe. v. 492. Dam. What voice, &c. v. 496. And fweetned every musk-rofe of the valley. v. 497. How cam'ft thou heere good Shepherd? v. 498. Leapt ore the penne. Then," his fold." Then," the fold." v. 512. What feares, good Shepherd ? v. 513. I'll tell you. v. 523. Nurtur'd in all his mother's witcheries. v. 531. Tending my flocks hard by i' th' pastur'd lawns. v. 545. With Spreading honey-fuckle. Or, blowing. v. 553. -Drowfy flighted steeds. v. 563. Too well I might perceive. v. 574. The helpleffe innocent lady. v. 605. Harpyes and Hydra's, or all the monstrous buggs 'Twixt Africa and Inde, I'le find him out, And force him to release his new-got prey, Or drag him by the curles, and cleave his fcalpe tains, that utter ruin must be the portion of his countrymen, if they do not inftantly leave off to nourish, decke, fet out, and crifp their Haire, and Loue-lockes, &c. &c. fee p. 62. The Elder Brother v. 608. threatens "to drag Comus by the curls, &c :" this expreffion must have been highly gratifying to Prynne. EDITOR. v. 513. The ed. of 1637, and Athridge manufcript read alfo you. v. 605. Bugs, Monsters, Terroars. So in B. and Fletcher's PHILASTER, A, v. S. i. vol. i. p. 165. edit. 1750. My pretty prince of puppets, we do know, And give your Greatness warning, that you talk And in Shakspeare's CYMBELINE, A. v. S. iii. Thofe that would die or ere refift, are grown The mortal bugs o' th' field. Where fee inftances collected by Mr. Steevens. And HENR. VI. P.i. That is," a monster that frighted us.' So in the 5th verfe of the xci. Pfalm, "the terrour by night" is rendered in the old English verfion" the bugge by night." EDITOR. v. 608. The ed. of 1637, and the Afhridge manufcript exhibit also this reading. Ibid. He has preferved the fame image in PAR. LOST, B. vi. 361. fpeaking of Moloch," Down cloven to the waste." Jonfon has the fame image in the Fox, “A. iii. S. viii. And Shakspeare in MACBETH, A. i. S. ii. But, notwithstand .611. But here thy feele can do thee fmall availe. v. 627. And fhew me fimples of a thousand hues. v. 648. As I will give you as we go, [or, on the way] you may, Boldly affault the necromantik hall; . 657. Where if he be, with fuddaine violence And brandisht blade rush on him, break his glaffe, I follow thee, And good heaven caft his best regard upon us. After v. 658, STAGE-DIRECTION. "The fcene changes to a "ftately palace, fet out with all manner of delicioufnefs: tables "fpread with all dainties. Comus is difcovered with his rabble: "and the Lady fet in an in chanted chaire. She offers to rise.” v. 661. And you a ftatue fixt, as Daphne was. v. 662. Fool, thou art over-proud, do not boast. This whole fpeech of the LADY, and the first verse of the next of COMUS, were added in the margin: for before, COMUS's first speech was uninterruptedly continued thus, "Root-bound, that fled Apollo. Why do you frown?" . 669. That youth aud fancie can beget, When the briske blood growes lively. v. 678. To life fo friendly, and fo coole to thirst. Poor ladie thou haft need of fome refreshing. Why should you, &c.→→→→→→ After v. 697, the nine lines now ftanding were introduced instead of "Poore ladie, &c." as above. v. 687. That haft been tir'd all day. v. 689. v. 695. Heere fair Virgin. ing those inftances, I believe, every reader will agree that Milton alter'd the paffage much for the better in the edition of 1645. NEWTON. Here fays Peck, "Curls upon a bald pate are a good joke." But he fhould at least have remembered a paffage in the Pfalms, "The bairy scalp of fuch an "one as goeth on ftill in his wickednefs." It is true that we have in Shakfpeare's Two GENT. OF VERON, A. iv. S. i. By the bare fcalp of Robin Hood's fat frier. That is, frier Tuck's fhaven crown. And in K. RICH. II. A. iii. S. ii.“bair"Lefs fcalps." WARTON. And fee Minthieu's Guide into Tongues, ed. 1627. col. 646. The bairie Scalpe. EDITOR. 627. So in LYCIDAS, V. 135. Their bells and flourets of a thoufand bues. WARTON., v. 695. Ougly or oughly is the old way of writing ugly; as appears from feveral places in Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia, and from Shakspeare's Sonnets ed. 1609; and care must be taken that the word be not mistaken, as fome have v. 698. With vifor'd falfhood and bafe forgeries. The feilds with cattell, and the aire with fowle. v. 717. To adorn her fons. But deck is the first reading, then adorn, then deck again. v. 737. Lift, lady, be not coy, nor be cofen'd. v. 749. They had thire name thence; coarse beetie brows. v. 751. The fample. v. 755. Think what, and look upon this cordial julep. Then follow verses from v. 672-705. From v. 779, to 806, the lines are not in the manufcript, but were added afterwards. v. 807. This is mere moral fituff, the very lees. And fettlings of a melancholy blood: But this, &c. After v. 813, STAGE-DIRECTION. "The Brothers rush in, frike "his glaffe down: the Shapes make as though they would refift, but are all driven in. Damon enters with them." v. 814. What, have you let the false inchanter pass? v. 816. Without his art reverft. V. 818. We cannot free the Lady that remains. v. 821. There is another zvay that may be us'd. v. 826. Sabrina is her name, a goddess chafte. Then a virgin chafte, then, a virgin pure. v. 829. She, guiltleffe damfel, flying the mad perfuite. v. 831. To the ftreame. But first," the flood." mistaken it, for owly-headed, Comus's train being beaded like fundry forts of wild beafts. NEWTON. Mr. Warton fays, that Peck thought it a paftoral way of fpelling the word. But ougly had been the ufual fpelling, as might be inftanced alfo from Lord Surry, Lord Sackville, Daniel, B. Jonfon, Fairfax, Sylvefter, and Fletcher. ED. v. 707. This is better than Stoic fur; for budge fignifies furr'd; but I fuppofe by Stoic für Milton intended to explain the other obfolete word, though he fell upon a very inaccurate way of doing it. WARBURTON. v. 737. Milton feems to have founded coy as a diffyllable as alfo coarfe at v. 749. infr. WARTON. |