...nefarious modern practices Milton pledges himself to write a true poem : Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory...

...his life. "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" (CP I, 820). Remaining beholden kept the energies of his "first being" intact. For who covenants with...

...had echoed in the prelude to Nat — that the poem he hoped to write would be a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtain'd...

...future poetry: "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" ( YM 1, 82o).18 The potential reader of Church-Government, however, Puritan or Anglican, would have...

...'eternall Spirit': Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted ... till which in some measure be compast, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this...

...flourish. Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment...what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wast from the pen of...

...pleasant though they were rugged and difficult indeed' (239). Poetry thus delightful and didactic is 'not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory...

...and Renaissance Studies 22 ( 1992), 261-89. 'covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted' - that is, the poetry which has been interrupted by polemic (MPW, I, 820). Poems represents a preliminary...

...formulation on the matter of memory and inspiration in The Reason of Church Governmentwhere he speaks of a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...

...inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery0 no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some...that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury0 of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame...