And if your stray-attendants be yet lodg'd But loyal cottage, where you may be safe LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, 315 320 With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. 1 BR. Unmuffle, ye faint stars, and thou, fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benizon, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, 331 Unmuffle] Benlowe's Theophila, st. xxii. p. 202.222. 'Unmuffle, ye dim clouds, and disinherit From black usurping mists.' Shirley's Young Admiral, act ii. sc. 2. Muffled his brightness in a sullen cloud.' 331 See Gascoigne's Jocasta, p. 99. Lisle's Du Bartas, p. 106. Browne's Shepherd's Pipe, vol. iii. p. 41. 129. Thorney Abbey, p. 48, for the use of this word. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades ; 335 With thy long-levell❜d rule of streaming light; 340 2 BR. Or if our eyes 345 Be barr'd that happiness, might we but hear 350 Where 334 disinherit] Nabbes's Microcosmus. Reed. ix. p. 116. air had best Confine himself to his three regions, Or else I'll disinherit him.' 340 rule] Eurip. Ikɛt. 650. 'Hλíov кavwv σapns. Hurd. 346 cock] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 199, Before the cock, light herald, day-break sings To his feathery dames.' What, if in wild amazement, and affright, 1 BR. Peace, Brother, be not over-exquisite I do not think my Sister so to seek, 360 And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, Virtue could see to do what virtue would 370 By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, 361 For grant] This line obscures the thought, and loads the expression: it had been better out. Warburton. 376 seeks to] This expression, 'seeks to,' common in our transl. of the Bible. Isaiah xi. 10. Deut. xii. 5. 1 Kings 12. Warton. Todd. x. 24. Eccles. iv. 378 plumes] I believe the true reading to be prunes.' Warton. That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast, 2 BR. 'Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, 385 For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, 395 But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope 400. 380 all-to] So read as in editions 1637, 1645, 1673, not too ruffled;'all-to' is entirely.' See Tyrwhitt's Gloss. Chauc. v. To. Upton's Gloss. Spens. v. all.' Warton. ruffled] Benlowes's Theophila, p. 222. Retreating to sweet shades our shattered thoughts we piece.' 380 389 senate] See Tooke's Div. of Purley, i. p. 90, ed. 4to. And let a single helpless maiden pass I fear the dread events that dog them both, 1 BR. I do not, Brother, Infer, as if I thought my Sister's state 405 410 As you imagine; she has a hidden strength 415 Which you remember not. 2 BR. What hidden strength, Unless the strength of Heav'n, if you mean that? 1 BR. I mean that too, but yet a hidden strength, Which, if heav'n gave it, may be term'd her own; 'Tis chastity, my Brother, chastity: 420 She that has that, is clad in complete steel, 413 squint] Quarles's Feast for Wormes (1633), p. 48. 'Heart-gnawing hatred, and squint-eyed suspicion.' Warton. 424 Infamous] Hor. Od. i. iii. 20. 'Infames scopulos.' Newton. |