And you a ftatue, or, as Daphne was, Lad. Fool, do not boast, Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou haft immanacled, while Heav'n fees good. 665 Com. Why are you vext, Lady? why do you frown? Here dwell no frowns, nor anger; from these gates Sorrow flies far: See, here be all the pleasures, That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts, v.661. or, as Daphne was, Root-bound, &c.] The poet, inftead of faying root-bound, as Daphne was that fled Apollo, throws in root-bound into the middle betwixt the antecedent and the relative, a trajection altogether unufual in our language, but which must be allowed both to vary and raise the style; and, as the connection is not so remote as to make the language obfcure, I think it may not only be tolerated but praised. This way of varying the ftile is a figure very usual both in Greek and Latin. Lord Monboddo's ORIG. AND PROG. OF LANG. vol. iii. 2d edit. p. 101. EDITOR. v. 663. Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms.-] This Stoical idea of the invio. lability of virtue is more fully expreffed, v. 589. 90. WARTON. Compare Prior's SOLOMON. B. ii. 218. where the fair, indignant captive fays to the monarch, This wretched body trembles at your power: Thus far could Fortune, but she can no more. Nor fears the victor's rage, nor feels his chains. ED. v. 666. This line confifts of a Choriambic and two Anapaefts. Why are you vext, Lady? why do you frown? ED. Here be all the pleasures, That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts, &c.] An echo to Fletcher, FAITHF. SHEPH. A. i. S. i. vol. iii. p. 119, Here be woods as green v. 668. As any, &c. Here be all new delights, &c. And again, p. 128. Whofe virtues do refine The blood of men, making it free and fair v. 669. That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts, WARTON. When the fresh blood grows lively, &c.] This is a thought When the fresh blood grows lively, and returns 670 of Shakspeare's, but vaftly improved by our poet in the manner of expreffing it. ROM. AND JUL. A. i. S. ii. Such comfort as do lufty young men feel, When well-apparell'd April on the heel Of limping winter treads. THYER. Compare Taffo, GIER. LIB. C. xiv. 62. O giovinetti, mentre Aprile, e Maggio V' ammantan di fiorite, e verdi spoglie, &c. EDITOR. v. 673. That flames and dances in his cryftal bounds.] So in SAMS. AGON. V. 543. "the dancing ruby sparkling, out-pour'd." In both paffages the allufion is to PROV. xxiii. 31. "Look not "thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." NEWTON. 66 Milton's expreffion, dances in his cryftal bounds, corresponds with the original, which the learned Dr. Hodgfon renders, in his Tranflation of the Book of Proverbs, "When it Sparkleth IN "THE GLASS; Glafs being used before the days of Solomon." And the dancing ruby Sparkling resembles the periphrafis for wine in the Perfian poetry, a melted ruby. Again in PAR. LOST, B. v. 633. "rubied Nectar." EDITOR. v.674. With Spirits of balm and fragrant fyrops mixt.] Made more inebriating, like the bowl of Helen, or, like the mixed wine of the Hebrews, by the addition of higher ingredients, as fpices, opiates, and drugs. See bishop Lowth on ISAIAH, i. 22. EDITOR. v. 675. Not that Nepenthes.-] The author of the lively and learned Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer, has brought together many particulars of this celebrated drug, and concludes, p. 135. edit. i. "It is true, they use opiates for pleasure all over "the Levant; but by the best accounts of them, they had them "originally from Egypt; and THIS OF HELEN appears plainly to "be a production of that country, and a custom which can be "traced from Homer to Auguftus's reign, and from thence to the age preceding our own." Dr. J. WARTON. 66 Compare Homer, ODYSS. A. 219. x. 7.λ. A curious treatise on this celebrated herb has been published, entitled "Petri Pe"titi Philofophi et Doctoris Medici Homeri NEPENTHES, five de "Helene Medicamento luctum, animique ægritudinem abolente, et aliis quibufdam eâdem facultate præditis, Differtatio." Traject. ad Rhen. 1689. EDITOR. 66 In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, And to those dainty limbs, which Nature lent 680 But you invert the covenants of her truft, With that which you receiv'd on other terms; By which all mortal frailty must subsist, That have been tir'd all day without repaft, Lad. 685 "Twill not, falfe traitor, 690 'Twill not restore the truth and honefty, That thou haft banish't from thy tongue with lies. v. 676. Jove-born Helena.] Here the English word born, which anfwers to the Latin word natus, Milton has used in the claffical fenfe of natus; for the Romans faid natus ex patre, as well as ex matre; whereas, in common English we say only, born of the mother. Lord Monboddo's ORIG. AND PROG. OF LANG. vol. iii. 2d edit. p. 29. R. Niccols, in his Induct. MIR. FOR MAG. ed. 1610. has "Fove-born Phoebus," and again, p. 784. Jove-born Aftræa." EDITOR. v. 679. Why Should you be fo eruel to yourself.] See Shakspeare, SONNET i. ed. Malone.. 1790, vol. x. p. 193.. Thyfelf thy foe, to thy fweet felf fo cruel. EDITOR. v. 680. And to thofe dainty limbs.] Spenfer, F. Q. i. xi, 32. All night the watcht, ne once adowne would lay Her dainty limbs. The expreffion is repeatedly used in the FAERY QUEEN; and in G. Wither's MISTRESSE OF PHILARETE, 1622. See alfo Sir H. Wotton's SHORT HIST. OF WILLIAM I. "He was not of any "delicate texture; his limbs were rather sturdy than daynty." ED. which Nature lent.] So Shakspeare, SONNET. iv. ed. Malone, 1790. vol. x. p. 196. Ibid. Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend; Was this the cottage, and the fafe abode But fuch as are good men can give good things, V. 700 705 694. -What grim afpects are these?] So Drayton, PoLYOLD. S. xxvii. vol. iii. p. 1196. Her grim afpect to fee. Again, ibid. S. xxx. vol. iii. p. 1225. Th' afpect of these grim dales. And Spenfer, F. Q. v. ix. 48. With griefly grim afpect Abhorred Murder. WARTON. So Shakspeare, RAPE OF LUCRECE. fome ghaftly sprite Whole grim afpect fets every joint a fhaking. And Sir T. Overbury's CHARACTERS. ed. 1627. Effay on Valour. "They bee both of a trade, but he of grim afpect." Milton uniformly follows the accentuation of afpect, by our elder poets, on the second fyllable. But the accentuation of the fubftantive convoy, on the fame fyllable, ver. 81, is perhaps peculiar to Milton. EDITOR. v. 695. "Ougly," or "oughly-headed" in the old edd. See note, v. 695. APP. No. I. Tickell and Fenton read "owly headed." ED. v. 696. Hence with thy brew'd inchantments, foul deceiver !] Magical potions, brewed or compounded of incantatory herbs and poifonous drugs. Shakspeare's cauldron is a brewed inchantment, but of another kind. WARTON. v. 700. With lickerish baits.] Dr. Newton and Mr. Warton read" liquorish baits.” EDITOR. v. 702. none But fuch as are good men can give good things.] This noble fentiment Milton has borrowed from Euripides, MEDEA. v. 618. Κακὰ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δῶρ ̓ ὄνησιν ἐκ ἔχει. NEWTON. v. 704. And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wife appetite.} That is, an appe. 167974 Com. O foolishness of men! that lend their ears Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 tite in subjection to the rational part, and which is pleased with nothing but what reafon approves of: It is a noble sentiment, but expreffed in a manner which will appear flat and infipid to those who admire the present fashionable ftyle, far removed from the fimplicity of the antients. Milton was not only the greatest scholar and fineft writer of his age, but a good philofopher. See Lord Monboddo's "ANTIENT METAPHYSICS," vol. iii. Preface, p. xlii. EDITOR. v. 707. To thofe budge doctors of the Stoic furr.] Thofe morofe and rigid teachers of abftinence and mortification, who wear the gown of the Stoic philofophy. Budge is fur, antiently an ornament of the fcholaftic habit. In the more ancient colleges of our Univerfities, the annual expences for furring the robes or liveries of the fellows, appear to have been very confiderable. "The Stoic fur" is as much as if he had faid "The Stoic fect." But he explains the obfolete word, in which there is a tincture of ridicule, by a very awkward tautology. WARTON. Dr. Johnfon, in his Dictionary, introduces this paffage in order to illuftrate the ufe of budge, as an adjective, fignifying furly, ftiff, rugged. This definition accords with another expreffion, which is applied to the fame philofophers, in PAR. REG. B. iv. 280. the fect Epicurean, and the STOIC fevere. The phrase "budge doctors" may thus feem highly appofite in the mouth of a contemptuous voluptuary. EDITOR. v. 710. Wherefore did Nature &c. &c.] Randolph, in his MUSE'S LOOKING GLASS, A. ii. S. iii. ed. 1638. argues in the fame fpecious manner: Nature has been bountiful To provide pleasures, and fhall we be niggards When Nature thought the earth too little All pleasures, and at full, were to make Nature A vanity in her works. EDITOR, |