...half-regnined Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 11- PBNSEROSO. Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys 1 Dwell in some idle bruin, And fancies foud with gaudy shapes possess, As thick nnd numberless As...

...with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless * ie, The buskin worn by tragic actors, soccus. As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hap, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright,...

...free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. ! HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without...thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! IL PENSEROSO. 15 ^ Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And, therefore,...

...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 3 XIV. IL PENSEROSO.3 HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without...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,...

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

...Day." — TODD. IL PENSEEOSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys,* The brood of Folly without father bred I How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with...And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick ь and numberless As the gay-motes that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle...

...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live.2 XIV. IL PENSEROS0.3 HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams,4 1 The Lydian measure was very soft and sweet. So Dryden, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day : —...

...-JUflton. HENCE, vain, deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motea that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train....

...merely through the senses, to " dwell in some idle brain," and occupy " fancies fond with gaudy shapes," "As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train." And such, after all, is the language of Wisdom. It is, as he elsewhere expresses it, from the " Cynic...

...WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. .L PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams;' Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and...