COMUS. With some other new device. 119 945 950 955 The Scene changes, presenting Ludlow town and the President's castle; then come in country dancers, after them the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, with the Two BROTHERS, and the LADY. SONG. SP. Back, Shepherds, back, enough your play, Till next sunshine holiday; Here be without duck or nod 951 there] So Milton's own edition, the MS. 'near.' 960 960 duck] K. Richard III. act i. sc. 3. Duck with French nods.' Warton. Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As Mercury did first devise, With the mincing Dryades, On the lawns, and on the leas. This second Song presents them to their Noble Lord, and Lady bright, To triumph in victorious dance. The dances ended, the SPIRIT epiloguis And those happy climes that lie All amidst the gardens fair 972 hard] Milton is fond of this expression. P. L. iv 'from hard assays.' P. Reg. i. 264. iv. 478. Todd. 979 broad] MS. 'plain fields.' Fairfax, B. viii. st. O'er the broad fields of heaven's bright wilderness Warton and 1 winds, with musky wing, cedarn alleys fling cassia's balmy smells. with humid bow e odorous banks, that blow f more mingled hue purfled scarf can show, hes with Elysian dew als, if your ears be true) yacinth and roses, ung Adonis oft reposes, ell of his deep wound r soft, and on the ground th' Assyrian queen; bove in spangled sheen Cupid her fam'd son advanc'd, 990 995 1000 Milton's own edition, 1673, reads 'That there, errata directs That' to be omitted; so it is by Fenton, but silently readopted by Newton. Warton. ]See Cowley's Silva. p, 56, and Love's Riddle, ne musky kisses of the west wind.' an] Tickel and Fenton read 'the Cyprian Queen.' I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Mortals, that would follow me, 1017 corners] Macbeth, a. 3. s. 5. Upon th moon.' Warton. 1021 sphery] 'sphery chime' is the chime or spheres. Mids. N. Dream, act ii. sc. 7, H eyne.' Machin's Dumbe Knight, (Reed's Old 'It was as silver as the chime of spheres.' He p. 116, Fall down from those thy chiming spher Warton 1023 stoop]bow.' MS. by y, then in their height. nore, O ye laurels, and once more brown, with ivy never sere, luck your berries harsh and crude, orc'd fingers rude, ir leaves before the mellowing year. 5 traint, and sad occasion dear, e to disturb your season due: is is dead, dead ere his prime, idas, and hath not left his peer: 1 not sing for Lycidas? He knew sing, and build the lofty rhime. ot float upon his watery bier 10 rown] Hor. Od. i. 25. 17. • Pulla magis atque rton. Phillisides is dead.' Past. Ægl. on Sir P. Sidby L. B. v. 8 (Todd's Spenser, viii. 76), and bowres of myrtel twigs, and lawrel faire.' Neget quis carmina Gallo.' Virg. Ecl. x. 3. Peck. | See Theod. Prodrom. Dos. et Rhod. Am. p. ulm. |