That thou hast banish'd from thy tongue with lies. Thou told'st me of? What grim aspects are these, I would not taste thy treasonous offer; none COMUS. O foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, 694. —What grim aspects are these,] So Drayton, Polyolb. S. xxvii. Her grim aspect to see. T. Warton. 695. These ugly-headed monsters?] In Milton's Manuscript, and in his editions, it is ougly or oughly, which is only an old way of writing ugly, as appears from several places in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and from Shakespeare's Sonnets in the edition of the year 1609: and care must be taken that the word be not mistaken, as some have mistaken it, for owly-headed, Comus's train VOL. IV. 700 705 And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, 710 715 That in their green shops weave the smooth-hair'd silk She hutch'd th' all-worshipp'd ore, and precious gems 720 These verses were thus at first in the Manuscript, Covering the earth with odours, and with fruits, Cramming the seas with spawn in. numerable, The fields with cattle, and the air with fowl, &c. 717. To deck her sons,] So he had written at first, then altered it to adorn, and afterwards to deck again. 719. She hutch'd,] That is, coffered. Warburton. Hutch is an old word, still in use, for coffer. Abp. Chichele gave a borrowing chest to the University of Oxford, which was called Chichele's hutch. T. Warton. 721. feed on pulse,] So it was at first, then fetches: but I suppose the allitteration of f's offended, and then he restored pulse again. Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, And we should serve him as a grudging master, And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons, 725 Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight, And strangled with her waste fertility, Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air dark'd with plumes, The herds would over-multitude their lords, 730 The sea o'erfraught would swell, and th' unsought diamonds Would so imblaze the forehead of the deep, 727. And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons,] In the Manuscript it was at first, Living as Nature's bastards, not her sons, which latter is an expression taken from Heb. xii. 8. then are ye bastards, and not sons. 730. dark'd with plumes,] The image taken from what the ancients said of the air of the northern islands, that it was clogged and darkened with feathers. Warburton. 731. The herds, &c.] Mr. Bowle observes, that the tenour of Comus's argument is like that of Clarinda, in B. and Fletcher's Sea-Voyage, a. ii. s. 1. Should all women use this obstinate abstinence, In a few years the whole world would be peopled Only with beasts. Would grow inur'd to light, and come at last If you let slip time, like a neglected rose 735 740 Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown 745. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, &c.] So Fletcher, Faith. Sheph. a. i. s. 1. vol. iii. p. 124. Give not yourself to loneness, and those graces Hide from the eyes of men, that were intended To live among us swains. But this argument is pursued more at large in Drayton's Epistle above quoted. I will give some of the more palpable resemblances. Fie, peevish girl, ungratefull unto nature, Did she to this end frame thee such a creature, That thou her glory should increase thereby, And thou alone should'st scorne society? Why, heaven made beauty, like her- Not to be shut up in a smoakie mew. gold, Which all men joy to touch, and to behold, &c. Here we have at least our author's "What need a vermeil"tinctured lip for that?" And again, All things that faire, that pure, that glorious beene, coarse complexions 745 Offer themselves on purpose to be seene, &c. But a parallelism is as perceptibly marked, in this passage from Daniel's Complaint of Rosamond, st. 74. Works, Lond. 1601. fol. Signat. M. iiij. What greater torment ever could have beene, Than to inforce the faire to live re- For what is beautie, if not to be seene, mir'd, |