...LYCIDAS A MONODY on the death of EDWARD KINC who was shipwrecked in the Irish Seas. BY JOHN MILTON. JL ET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before...

...Irish seas* 1637, and by occasion foretels the rufn of our corrupted clergyt then in their height. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and" once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd fingers rude, Shatu r your leaves before...

...Milton's Juvenile Poems, I venture to send you a few remarks which were made when I perused it. THW Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd 'fingers rude, Shatter your leaves...

...ihec will choose to live. 752 BOOK IV. SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. § 3. LYCIDAS. MILTON. YBT once more, O ye Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before...

...prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. LYCIDAS. Yrr e perfection ! therein Man Plac'd in a Paradise, by our exile Hade never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your...

...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their kighth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before...

...learned friend, who," on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637.] YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your...

...Manuscript appears to have been written in November, 16i,7, when he was almost twenty-nine years old : YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, and these words in the printed titles of this poem, and by occasion. fvretels the ruin of our corrupted...

...prophetic strain. Those pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. LYCIDAS. ir church, in last resort, should judge the sense. But first they would ass scar, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves...

...Manuscript appears to have been written in November, \63~, when he was almost twenty-nine years old : once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, and these words in the printed titles of this poem, and by occasion jvretelx the ruin of our corrupted...