...juvaret ? Numquid Pieris ipsa parens interfuit Orphei, Pieris ipsa suse sobolis, qui carmine rexit Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse?...

...girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night 1 or when Milton : Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neara's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...

...have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore i Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...asphaltus, yielded light as from a sky. J. MILTON 1167 FAME ALAS what boots it with incessant care to tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, and...use, to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Nea;ra's hair? Bl Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — the last infirmity...

...inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankles Muse . . . [58-66]...

...other shores.1* What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (1L58-63) Even more significant, however, is the initiatory motif this version of the Orpheus myth...

...your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime 26 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care pet Hid in the tangles of Neaera's hair? 27 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last...

...still singing. What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her inchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (Lycidas, lines 58-64) he did not he would go home and live out a long life, he dared i8oa choose to...

...use asking where the nymphs were when Lycidas drowned: Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Orpheus is not just any victim of mob violence: he is a figure for the poet himself, and for the reader...

...herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, MI When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not...