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NOTES ON MILTON

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(Continued from Vol. i., p. 387.)

L'Allegro.


On l. 6. (D.):—

"Where triumphant Darkness hovers

With a sable wing, that covers

Brooding Horror."


Crashaw, Psalm xxiii.

On l. 11. (G.) Drayton has this expression in his Heroical Epistles:—

"Find me out one so young, so fair, so free."


King John to Matilda.

and afterwards,—

"Leave that accursed cell;

There let black Night and Melancholy dwell."


On l. 24. (G.) Most probably from a couplet in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy:—

"And ever and anon she thinks upon the man,

That was so fine, so fair, so blith, so debonaire."


P. 3. Sc. 2. p. 603. ed. 1621. 4to.

And in Randolph's Aristippus,—

"A bowle of wine is wondrous boone chere

To make one blith, buxome, and deboneere


Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850

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