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...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout2 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through...

...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout2 Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through...

...stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 120 weeds] Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3. ' Great Hector in his weeds of peace.1 Todd. Married...

...youthful poets dream, On summer eves, by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock* be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's...Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the melting soul may pierce. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With...

...stream. Then to the well-trod singe anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes of many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The...

...summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; l Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his...immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, j Títere let Hymen oft appear, fit saffron robe, with taper clear, Ac. For, according to Shakspeare,...

...ways of God to man." In illustration, we may cite a few of the last lines in L'ALLEGBO, on Music — u And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the musing soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With...

...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. L ALLEGRO. I And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...

...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. 2 Reginald Scott gives a brief account of this imaginary spirit much in the same manner with this of...