ARCADES. fol. 1. 2. 3.

TIT. "Parte of a mafke, or Entertainment, &c."

V. 10. Now feems guiltie of abuse

And detraction from her praife,
Lefs than halfe fhe bath expreft:
Envie bid her hide the reft.

V. 18. Seated like a goddess bright.

V. 23. Ceres dares not give her ods;

Who would have thought this clime had held.
V. 41. Thofe virtues which dull fame hath left untold.
V. 44. For know, by lot from Jove I have the power.
V. 47. In ringlets quaint.

V. 49. Of noifome winds, or blasting vapours chill.
V. 50. And from the leaves brush off the evil dew.
V. 62. Hath chain'd mortalitie, then listen I.

In Milton's own hand.

COMUS. fol. 13-29.

STAGE-DIRECTION. "A guardian spirit or dæmon" [enters.] Atfer v.4, "In regions mild, &c," Thefe lines are inferted, but croffed. Amidst th' Hefperian gardens, on whose banks

Bedew'd with nectar and celestiall jongs,
Eternall rofes grow, and byacinth,

And fruits of golden rind, on whofe faire tree
The fealie-barneft dragon ever keeps
His uninchanted eye; around the verge
And facred limits of this blisfull ifle,
The jealous ocean, that old river, windes
His farre extended armes, till with steepe fall
Halfe his waft flood the wild Atlantique fills,
And balfe the flow unfadom'd ftygian poole.
But foft, I was not sent to court your wonder
With diftant worlds, and firange removed climes.
Yet thence I come, and oft from thence behold.

V. 5. The fmoake and stir of this dim narrow spot.
After v.7, "Strive to keep up, &c," this line was inferted, but croffed.
Beyond the written date of mortall change.

V. 14. That fhews the palace of æternity.

V. 18. But to my buifnesse now. Neptune whofe fway.

V. 21. The rule and title of each fea-girt ifle.

V. 28. The greatest and the best of all his empire.

V. 45. By old or modern bard, in hall or bowre.

V. 58. Whom therefore fhe brought up and nam'd him Comus.
V. 62. And in thick covert of black bade imbowr'd

Excells his mother at her potent art.

Covert is written first, then shelter.

V. 67. For moft doe taste through weake intemperate thirst.

V. 72. All other parts remaining as before.
V.90. Neereft and likelieft to give præfent aide.
. 92. Of virgin fteps. I must be viewleffe now.
Virgin is expunged for hatefull.
STAGE-DIRECTION. "Goes out.

V.

Comus enters with a charming rod

"and glaffe of liquor, with his rout all headed like fome wild beasts; "thire garments, fome like men's and fome like women's. They come on in a wild and antick fashion. Intrant Kwμdores.”

V. 97. In the steepe Tartarian streame.

V.99. Shoots against the northern pole.

Dufky is a marginal correction.

V. 108. And quick Law with her fcrupulous head.

V. 114. Lead with swift round the months and years.

V. 117. And on the yellow fands and fhelves.

Yellow is altered to tawny.

V. 122. Night has better sweets to prove.
V. 133. And makes a blot of nature.
Again,

And throws a blot ore all the aire.
V. 134. Stay thy polifbt cbon chaire

Wherein thou rid'ft with Hecate,
And favour our clofe jocondrie.

Till all thy dues bee done, and nought left out.

V. 144. With a light and frolic round.

STAGE-DIRECTION. "The measure, in a wild, rude, and wanton antick,” V. 145. Breake off, breake off, I hear the different pace

Of fome chafte footing neere about this ground;

Some virgin fure benighted in these woods,

For fo I can diftinguish by myne art.

Run to your shrouds within these braks and trees,
Our number may affright.

This difpofition is reduced to the prefent context: then follows a
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V. 151.

V.153.

They all Scatter."

Now to my trains,

And to my mother's charmes.

Thus I hurle

My powder'd fpells into the spungie air,

Of power to cheat the eye with fleight illufion,
And give it false præfentments, elfe the place.

And blind is written for fleight.

V. 164. And hugge him into nets.

V. 170.

If my ear be true.

V. 175. When for their teeming flocks, and garners full.
V. 181. In the blind alleys of this arched wood.

V. 190. Rofe from the hindmoft wheeles of Phoebus' chaire.
V. 193. They had ingag'd thire youthly steps too farre

To the foone-parting light, and envious darkness
Had ftolne them from me.

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V. 199:

V. 199. With everlafting oyle to give thire light.
V. 208. And ayrie toungs that lure night-wanderers.
V. 214. Thou flittering angel girt with golden wings,
And thou unspotted forme of chastity,

I fee ye vifibly, and while I jee gee,
This duskye boliver is a paradife,

And heaven gates ore my head: now I beleeve.

V. 219. Would fend a gliftering cherub, if need were.

V. 2
231. Within thy ayric cell.

Cell is in the margin.

Before Comus fpeaks, at v. 244, is this STAGE-DIRECTION,

lookes in and speaks.'

V. 252. Of darkneffe till he finii'd.

V. 257.

Scylla would weepe,*

Chiding her barking waves into attention.
V. 268. Liv't here with Pan and Sylvan. ——

V. 270. To touch the profpering growth of this tall wood.
V. 279. Could that divide you from thire ufhering hands.

V. 280. They left me wearied on a graffie turf.

V. 304. To help you find them out.

V. 310. Without fure fecrage of well-practiz'd feet.

V. 312. Dingle or bufhie dell of this wide wood.

V. 316. Within these shroudie limits.

V. 321. Till further quest be made.

V. 329.Square this tryal.

"Camas

After v. 330, STAGE-DIRECTION. "Exeunt.-The two brothers Enter."
V. 340. With a long-levell'd rule of ftreaming light.
V. 349. In this fad dungeon of innumerous boughs.
V. 352. From the chill dew, in this dead folitude?

Perhaps fome cold banke is her boulfter now,

Or 'gainst the rugged barke of fome broad elme

She leanes her thoughtfull head mufing at our unkindnesse :
Or loft in wild amazement and affright,

So fares, as did forjaken Proferpine,

When the big wallowing flakes of pitchie clouds

And darkneffe wound her in.

1 Br. Peace, brother, peace. I do not think my fifter, &c.

Dead folitude is alfo furrounding wild. Some of the additional lines (v.350.-366.) are on a feparate flip of paper.

V. 362.

-

The date of grief.

V. 365. This felf-delufion.

V. 371. Could stirre the stable mood of her calme thoughts.
V. 384. Walks in black vapours, though the noon-tide brand

Blaze in the fummer-folftice.

For who would rob a hermit of his beads,

His books, or his haire gowne, or maple-dish?

Bid me think.

V. 400.
V. 403. Uninjur'd in this vast and hidesus wild.

V. 409. Secure without all doubt or question: no,
I could be willing, though now i'tb'darke, to trie
A tough encounter with the fhaggieft ruffian,
That lurks by bedge or lane of this dead circuit,
To have ber by my fide, though I were fure
She might be free from perill where he is,

But where an equal poife of hope and fear.

For encounter he had first written passado, and hopes and fears.
V. 415. As you imagin, brother: fhe has a hidden strength.
V.
7.421. She that has that, is clad in compleate steele :
And may on every needfull accident,

Be it not don in pride or wilfull tempting,

Walk through huge forrefts and unharbour'd heaths,
Infamous hills, and fandie perilous wilds;
Where, through the facred awe of chastitie,
No favage feirce, bandite, or mountaneere,
Shall dare to foile her virgin puritie.

V. 428. Yea ev'n where very defolation dwells.
V. 433. In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorie fen,

Blue wrinckled hag, or ftubborne unlaid ghoft.
V. 448. That wife Minerva wore, æternal virgin.
Then, unvanquif'd, then, unconquer'd.

V. 452. With fuddaine adoration of her purenee.
Then, bright rayes, then, blank awe.

V. 454. That when it finds a foul fincerely fo.
V. 465. And most by the lafcivious act of fin.

V. 471. Oft feene in charnel vaults, and monuments,
Hovering, and fitting by a newe-made grave.

V. 481. Lift, lift, methought I heard.

V. 485. Some curl'd man of the fword calling to his fellows.

490. Had beft looke to his forehead: here be brambles.

STAGE-DIRECTION. "He hallows: the guardian dæmon hallows again, "and enters in the habit of a shepherd."

V.491. Come not too neere; you fall on pointed stakes else.

V.492. Dam. What voice, &c.

V. 496. And fweetned every mufk-rofe of the valley.

V.

.497. How cam'ft thou heere good Shepherd?

V. 498. Leapt ore the penne.

Then, "bis fold." Then, "the fold."

V. 512. What feares, good Shepherd?

V. 513. I'll tell you,

V.523. Nurtur'd in all his mother's witcheries.

V. 531. Tending my flocks hard by i'th' paftur'd lawns.
V. 545. With Spreading honey-fuckle.

Or blowing.

V. 553. Drowly flighted feeds.
V. 563. Too well I might perceive.
V.574. The helpleje innocent lady.

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V.605.

V. 605. Harpyes and Hydra's, or all the monstrous buggs
"Twixt Africa and Inde, I'le find him out,
And force him to release his new-got prey,

Or drag him by the curles, and cleave his scalpe
Down to the hips.

V. 611. But here thy fteele can do thee small availe.
V. 614. He with his bare wand can unquilt thy joynts,,
And crumble every finew.

V. 627. And fhew me fimples of a thousand hues ↳
V.636. And yet more med'cinal than that antient Moly
Which Mercury to wife Ulyffes gave.

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V. 648. As I will give you as we go, [or, on the way] you may,
Boldly affault the necromantik hall;

V.657.

Where if he be, with fuddaine violence

And brandisht blade rush on him, breake his glaffe,
And powre the lufhious potion on the ground,
And feife his wand.

I follow thee,

And good heaven caft bis beft regard upon us.

After v. 658, STAGE-DIRECTION. "The fcene changes to a ftately "palace fet out with all manner of delicioufnefs: tables spread with "all dainties. Comus is difcovered with his rabble: and the Lady fet "in an inchanted chaire. She offers to rife."

V. 661. And you a ftatue fixt, as Daphne was.

V. 662. Fool, thou art over-proud, do not boast.

This whole speech of the LADY, and the first verse of the next of COMUS, were added in the margin: for before, Comus's firft fpeech was uninterruptedly continued thus,

"Root-bound, that fled Apollo. Why do you frown?”

V.669. That youth and fancie can beget,

When the brifke blood growes lively.

V. 678. To life fo friendly, and fo coole to thirst.

Poor ladie thou haft need of fome refreshing.
Why should you, &c.

a Monsters. Terrours. So in B, Fletcher's PHILASTER, A. v. S. i, vol, i. p.165. edit, 1750.

My pretty prince of puppets, we do know,

And give your Greatness warning, that you talk
No more fuch BUG-WORDS.

And in Shakespeare's CYMBELINE, A. v. S. iii,

Thofe that would die or ere refift, are grown
The mortal BUGS o'th' field..

Where fee inftances collected by Mr. Steevens. And HENR, vi. P. i,

For Warwick was a EUG that fear'd us all.

That is, "a monfter that frighted us." Our author's REFORMAT. "Which is the BUG we fear." PROSE-WORKS, 1. 25. See alfu Reed's OLD PL. iii. 234. See alío the WINTERS TALE. And Spenfer, F. Q. ii. ifi. 20.-xii. 25. "Furiis agitatus Oreftes," Oreftes bayted was with BUGGES. in Chaucer, "Or ellis that blacke BUGGYS wol hym take." As in LYCIDAS, V.135.

Phaer tranflates Virgil's N. iv. 471. The word is N. PR. T. 1051. Urг.

Their bells and flourets of a THOUSAND HUES.

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