...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask,...

...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, :. .....

...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp,...

...blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. Instead of looking through things to the ghostly paradigm 'beyond',...

...has been too long abused." From these rustic fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes of ladies judging the prize of wit is indeed...

...architecture, or the commerce, L'Allegro depicts the city as a giant, ongoing chivalric entertainment: "Tow'red Cities please us then / And the busy hum of men, /...Peace high triumphs hold, / With store of Ladies" (11. 1 12-20). L'Allegro's depiction sounds innocuous, especially since we know that Milton once planned...

...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Towered cities please us then, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. (11.77-80,117-124) In Elegia Septima the poet falls in love because...

...BATTI-E OF OTTERBOURNE .............. a65 XXXVH1. EDWARD THE BIACK PRINCE ................ a7a INUEX Throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace...whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize. Mil TON. THOMAS BULFINCH (1796-1867l A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF "MYTHOLOGY" His course at Harvard College...

...the line is: Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered Cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.45 - ,20. 'Towered cities please us then' -a subject from Milton, c. 1803-4, pencil and grey...

...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry,...