...voiced as early a the Seventh Prolusion. Christian priests could either pursue their own wicked fancies, "and when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw" (123-24); or they, like Milton at Horton and Hammersmith, could apply themselves "to know God aright."...

...least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum...

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...the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? Thay are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...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...

...the least Tha1 to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what...

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...first allusion to one of the autograph's crucial contexts, "Lycidas" 125-27 (italics added): The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spred. Littleton's 1760 Dialogues of the Dead similarly links contagion of satire to the rank draft...

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