...held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, (1. 31—42) 17 Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing So bloodily hast struck? (V, ii) NAWM-1 Julius Caesar...some time are masters of their fates, The fault, (1. 105-108) IB But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high...

...Might raise MUSZUS//WH his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the firing, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek Or call up him Wat left half told The slory 0/"Cambuscan bold, O/"Camball, and of Algarsife, And who bad Canace to...

...But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. CHAPTER 25 Arion; Ibycus; Simonides; Sappho The poets whose adventures compose this chapter were real...

...Phaedrus claims he was a coward — to the Underworld to bring her back. Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string Drew Iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. (Milton, // Penseroso, lines 104-108) But Eurydice was released on the condition that Orpheus not turn...

...97), 'the tale of Troy divine' (line 100) and, yet once more, Orpheus: Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. (lines 105-8) It is, notice, once again an affective, effective poetry. Orpheus's song achieves something.16...

...Sorrow. There are a number of literary echoes in the poem. Line 195 echoes 'II Penseroso', lines 109-10: 'Or call up him that left half told / The story of Cambuscan bold'; line 285 echoes Milton's Paradise Lost, VII, lines 374-5: 'the Pleiades before him danced / Shedding...

...sad virgin,0 that thy power Might raise Musaeus0 from his bower, 105 Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears...Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. (c) from Lye id as, 1637 A pastoral elegy for a Cambridge acquaintance of Milton's, Edward King, an...

...to enter. Presenting himself before the deities which presided over this kingdom of ghosts, he sang Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, Consent was given that Eurydice accompany her husband back to the upper world ; but the condition imposed,...

...But Ol Sad Virgin, that thy Power Might raise Musaeus from his Bower; Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the String, Drew Iron Tears down Pluto's Cheek, And bid Hell gram what Love1 did Seek. Chorus Or call2 up Him, who left half told The story of Cambuscan...

...raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Draw iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek. (11. 103-108) Wishing to have the poetic power to revive Orpheus and other male Urpoets rather than...