...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen6 oft appear • In saffron robe, with taper clear,...haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's7 learned sock be on ; 1 These names represent country people. 2 ie free from care, the literal...

...adjudge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear, In saffron robe, with taper clear. And...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve by haunted stream. — L'ALLEGRO. If any utilitarian require further reason for our particularity...

...adjudge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear, In saffron robe, with taper clear, And...mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poeta dream, On summer eve by haunted stream. — I/ALLEGRO. If any utilitarian require further reason...

...Milton, at least, in his assumed character of L'Allegro, appears to adopt and sanction it, when he says : Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And, after him, Fuller, in his Worthies of England, (first published in 1662,) speaking of Shakspeare, writes:...

...what plays he might see, yet one of his pleasures is the performance of the legitimate drama : — " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." Returning to " the pensive man," it will naturally be assumed that he does not follow the former in...

...John Milton, "L'Allegro," 1645, 11. 125-28. The lines in Patterson's edition read: There let Hymen oft appear In Saffron robe, with Taper clear, And...feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique Pageantry. See The Works Of John Milton. Vol. 1, Pt. 1. 1931, p. 39. 192.7-10 "Let mirth . . . looks gay"] Nicholas...

...his Cream-bowl duly set. (lines 100-6) When these tales are done, we move to more literary creations: Such sights as youthful Poets dream On Summer eves...anon, If Jonson's learned Sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native Wood-notes wild. And ever against eating Cares, Lap me...

...and Tenniel. Tenniel's contribution to the book illustrates a pagan festive scene. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And...feast, and revelry, with mask and antique pageantry. It is the critical passage in a poem celebrating the Richard Doyle, illustration to "L'AIIegro," in...

...stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock59 be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild....ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,60 Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding...

...and thought, it enriches human experience. At this point Milton's lines in L'Allegro come to mind: ...pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. 3. Vasistha's advice on how the poor are to be treated, reflects a deep understanding of human psychology....