...brood of folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, IL PENSEROSO. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly...

...father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, 4 1 The Lydian measure was very soft and sweet. So Dryden, OJa on St. Cecilia's Day:— " Softly sweet,...

...bredr How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright...

...bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, blood-stained arms, for other deaths assumes ; And...sake. PEASANTS ', PAUPERS } FARMERS. Such are our But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright...

...of Folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Е 1X 1 F 1 But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright...

...bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes; Dwell in som idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus train. 10 But hail thou Goddes,...

...bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail 1 thou Goddess sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright...

...father bred, How little you betted, Or fill tbefxed mind with all your toyes; Dweuin som idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, Or likeft bovering dreams Tbefckle Pensioners o/ Morpheus train. But bail tbou Goddes, sage...

...bred! How litde you bested,62 Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus'63 train. 10 But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saindy...

...John Milton in „II Penseroso" als Flattergetier im Kopf verbildlicht: „Dwell in som idle brain,/ And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,/ As thick and numberless/ As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams". In Schillers „Wallenstein" sind es Vögel vergleichbar mit dem kopfumschwirrenden Nachtgetier...