...bate a jot The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...might lead me through the world's vain mask, Content, thought blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...

...thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overply'd In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain masque, Content though blind, had I no better guide." We will only cite one other illustration from...

...Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. (Sonnet xxil) The guardians of the masque shepherd the immaculate Lady through dark woods toward a...

...conscience, Friend, to lave lofl them overptyd In libertyes defence, my nolle task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...mask. Content though blind, had I no better guide. PSALM I Done into Verse, 1653 Bless'dis the man who hath not walk'd affray In counsel of the wicked,...

...良辰一誤 ， 永無好迷。 吳漠文譯 孫梁技 24 On His Deceased Wife John Milton Me thought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Joves great Son to her glad Husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint, Mine as...

...emanation of Milton might do when unfolded. Here are the two poems in question, Milton first: Sonnet XXIII Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint,...

...thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...mask Content though blind, had I no better Guide. Again the dramatic touch, the playing up to admiration. The real answer is to be found in the last...

...rest: They also serve who only stand and wait. 7679 Sonnet 19 'Methought I saw my late espoused saint' 816 Le Petit Prince It is only with the 7680 Sonnet 19 'Methought I saw my late espoused saint' But oh as to embrace me she inclined 1 waked,...

...in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1, v, 9-13 (c. 1603) 10 Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave . . . But O as to embrace me she enclin'd, 1 wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. John Milton,...

...friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. (LM 1-14) The consolation of conscience — that "consciousness of rectitude" to which Milton refers...