Over some wide-water'd shore, Where glowing embers through the room Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm: What worlds, or what vast regions hold In sceptred pall come sweeping by, 75 wide-water'd] Constable's Son. Ellis's Spec. ii. p. 305. 'Or like the echo of a passing bell, Which, sounding on the water, seems to howl.' 98 Sceptred] Miltoni Eleg. i. 37. 'Sive cruentatum furiosa Tragoedia sceptrum 75 85 90 96 Quassat.' Warton. Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or what (though rare) of later age And made Hell grant what love did seek. The story of Cambuscan bold, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, 100 105 110 115 In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Where more is meant than meets the ear. 120 Thus night oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited morn appear, Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, 110 Cambuscan] In the Squier's Tale of Chaucer, see Tyrwhitt's notes, vol. ii. p. 466, ed. 1798. Todd. 122 civil] Rom. and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.' Warton. But kerchef'd in a comely cloud, While rocking winds are piping loud, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke That at her flowery work doth sing, 125 130 135 140 With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd sleep; 145 And let some strange mysterious dream 141 eye] Son. i. 5. 'Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.' Warton. 146 dewy] 'Liquidique potentia somni.' Val. Flac. iv. 18. 'Irriguus somnus.' Plaut. Ep. i. ii. 18. 'Dewy sleep.' Henry More's Poems, p. 263. 148 Wave Consult Warton's note on the structure of these lines. Of lively portraiture display'd, And as I wake, sweet music breathe Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age 150 155 180 163 170 175 156 pale] Warton conjectures that the right reading may be the studious cloister's pale.' i. e. enclosure. ARCADES. Part of an Entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Derby, at Harefield, by some noble persons of her family; who appear on the scene in pastoral habit, moving toward the seat of state, with this song. SONG I. Look, Nymphs and Shepherds, look, Is that which we from hence descry, This, this is she To whom our vows and wishes bend; Fame, that her high worth to raise, 5 This] Jonson's Ent. at Altrope, 1603. 'This is shee, This is shee, In whose world of grace,' &c. Warton. 10 |