...their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; • But swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw ; Rot inwardly,...paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the...

...belongs, What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped, And when they list their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw....with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said." Milton's indignation was not as the indignation of Prynne or Bastwick. He did not approach the Church...

...recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped, And when they list their lean and flashy songs Orate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry...with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said." Milton's indignation was not as the indignation of Prynne or Bastwick. He did not approach the Church...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Even lines as violently explicit as these draw power from the tact and balance of the poet : the pastoral...

...belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw....nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...

...scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep (the starving people of this country from 1933-39) look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. That is the Dominions Office described by Milton in the 17th century, that little back room in some...

...Paradise Lost, but in his lengthy note on the most famous and contested interpretative crux in Lycidas: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (Lycidas, 128-31) After explaining the 'grim wolf by invoking the parallel of Spenser's similar image...

...ever-mounting abuses in the present-day church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in their...

...utter a jeremiad against prelarical wolves who abandon pastoral care and misappropriate church wealth: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (1l. 128-31) A headnote added to the 1645 edition guided revolutionary readers to discover a prophecy...

...belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw....Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk they streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither case Their Bells and Flowrets...