Their tafte no knowledge works at leaft of evil, All these are Spirits of air, and woods, and springs, Thy gentle minifters, who come to pay 375 Thee homage, and acknowledge thee their Lord: What doubt'ft thou Son of God? fit down and eat. To whom thus Jefus temp'rately reply'd. Said'st thou not that to all things I had right? When and where likes me beft, I can command? I can tainty of the confequence, that he Saidft thou not that to all things The right of the Son of God being And who withholds my pow'r I can at will, doubt not, as foon as thou, And count thy fpecious gifts no gifts but guiles. 385 390 If This ftrangir knight is fet to him. full fone; and by Spenfer, Faery Queen B. 3. Cant. 1. St. 8, Whom ftrange adventure did from Britain fet: and Muiopotmos, Not Bilbo steel, nor brafs from and by Johnfon, Prol. to Silent Though there be none far fet: and in profe as well as in verse by Sir Philip Sidney, Arcad. p. 360. Therewith he told her a far fet tale: Defenfe of poetry p. 551. and much lefs with far fet maxims of philofophy: as if our old writers had If of that pow'r I bring thee voluntary Chose to impart to thy apparent need, Why shouldst thou not accept it? but I fee What I can do or offer is suspect; Of these things others quickly will difpofe, 400 Whose pains have earn'd the far fet spoil. With that With found of harpies wings, and talons heard; And When from the mountain-tops with hideous cry, And clatt'ring wings, the hungry harpies fly; They fnatch the meat. Dryden, And we have a like fcene in Shakespeare, in the Tempeft, A& III. where feveral frange apes bring in a banquet, and afterwards enters Ariel like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a quaint device the banquet vanishes. 404. Only th' importune Tempter ftill remain'd,] The word impórtune is often pronounced with this accent by our old writers, as Spenfer Faery Queen B. 1. Cant. 12. St. 16. And often blame the too impórtune fate: and And with these words his temptation purfu'd. 405 By hunger, that each other creature tames, Thou art not to be harm'd, therefore not mov'd; Thy temperance invincible befides, For no allurement yields to appetite, High actions; but wherewith to be achiev'd? and B. 2. Cant. 8. St. 38. 4IQ A car ligence of the poet's amanuenfis or The which dividing with im- printer, which may be restor'd, I pórtune fway: and Cant. 11. St. 7. With greedy malice and impórtune toil: whereas now, I think, we commonly pronounce it with the accent upon the laft fyllable in the adjective, and always in the verb, importune. think, with certainty enough. Behold them, Reader, in the place they seem to me to have a right to; confider and judge. Or at thy heels how keep the dizzy multitude. One may almoft venture to determin on the fide of these claimants, from what our bleffed Saviour faith, in the beginning of his re 419. What followers, what re- ply to this fpeech of the Tempter. tinue canft thou gain, Or at thy heels the dizzy multitude &c.] This is a strange paffage! I read Yet wealth without thefe three is impotent To gain dominion, or to keep it gain'd. Or at thy heels what dizzy Milton's verfes are not always to multitude, but it does not please me. Sympfon. There are two words unhappily loft in the fecond line by the neg There are be measured by counting fyllables may A carpenter thy father known, thyself 415 420 Longer than thou canft feed them on thy cost? may call them; where the two laft fyllables are redundant. One or two from Milton will be fufficient. Extolling patience as the trueft fortitude. Samf. Ag. ver. 655. But this is from the Chorus. Take another from a speech of. Dalila's, ver. 870. Private refpects muft yield; with But an inftance of it from Paradife For folitude | fometimes is beft society. This reading makes very good fenfe, and clears the fyntax: but moft readers, I imagin, rather than admit fuch a Hypercatalectic verfe, will understand the dizzy. multitude as the accufative cafe af |