...of hell. The sermon seemed as if it had been made to answer exactly the poet's description : — " And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what...

...to A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! ughtful to feed Her lowest sons, and clothe the coming year, From field to field the feathered songa Grate on their serannel pipes of wretehed straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,...

...sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs < What reeks it them ? what need they ? they are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 242 SUMMER JULY. Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are...

...che le pecorelle, che non sanno, tornan del pasco pasciute di vento. (Paradiso 29, 107-08) The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw. (Lycidas, 125-26) There is, of course, much in Dante's Catholicism that proves incompatible with Milton's...

...voiced as early a the Seventh Prolusion. Christian priests could either pursue their own wicked fancies, "and when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw" (123-24); or they, like Milton at Horton and Hammersmith, could apply themselves "to know God aright."...

...hold A sheep-hook, or have leam'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped;...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum...

...else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? Thay are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy...scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep (the starving people of this country from 1933-39) look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and...

...hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least Tha1 to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped;...straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what...

...first allusion to one of the autograph's crucial contexts, "Lycidas" 125-27 (italics added): The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spred. Littleton's 1760 Dialogues of the Dead similarly links contagion of satire to the rank draft...

...parts of the body); flatus." In support of this definition, the dictionary quotes Lyridas: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. (125-27) As in Raphael's admonition to Adam, Milton here equates food with knowledge, nourishment with...