...spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye bin there—for what could that have don? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots...

...Nor yet where Dev&°¿ spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream Had ye been there,. . . for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself...enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the...

...on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there—for what could that have done?...her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the...

...distinguish between persona and person were a mistake also of the elegist himself. Ay me, I fondly dream, Had ye been there!—for what could that have done?...sent. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Here the master, himself, is seen to be subjected; and the subjection of the master must be understood...

...their inability to protect Orpheus, let alone lowly Lycidas, from disaster: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there—for what could that have done?...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (11. 56-63) The inability of the Muses to protect their own leads Milton, as Evans writes, to question...

...useless. This fact reminds Milton of one of his favourite stories, she myth of Orpheus: What could she Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself,...universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made she hideous roar His gory visage dowi¿ she stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore....

...the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where De va spreads her wizard stream: Ay me! I fondly dream— Had ye been there—for what could that have done?...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? 14 Each set of female figures in the passage—nymphs, Muse, murderous maenads—is succeeded by one...

...Milton in 1637: What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse her self for her inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the...that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the streat was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (Lycidas 58-63) Here, too, the Christian...

...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there .. . for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots it widi uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And stricdy meditate...

...that have don? What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse her self, for her 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 to the Lesbian shore. (Lyc. 50-64) 7t¿t...