After v. 679, the nine lines now ftanding were introduced inftead of

"Poore ladie, &c," as above.

V.687. That hast been tir'd all day.

V.689.

Heere fair Virgin.

V.695. Oughly-headed monsters.

V.698. With vifor'd falfhood and base forgeries.
V. 707. To thofe budge doctors of the Stoick gowne.
V. 712. Covering the earth with odours and with fruites,
Cramming the feas with spawne innumerable,

The feilds with cattell, and the aire with fowle.
V. 717. To adorn her fons.

But deck is the first reading, then adorn, then deck again.
V. 721. Should in a pet of temperance feed on fetches.
But pulse was the firit reading. At laft, refumed.
V. 727. Living as Nature's bastards, not her fons.
V. 732. The fea orefraught would heave her waters up
Above the ftars, and th' unfought diamonds
Would fo beftudde the the center with thire light,
And fo imblaze the forehead of the deep,
Were they not taken thence, that they below
Would grow enur'd to day, and come at last.

V. 737. Lift, lady, be not coy, nor be cafen'd,
V. 744. It withers on the ftalk and fades away.

V. 749. They had thire name thence; coarfe beetle brows.

V.751. The Jample.

V. 755. Think what, and look upon this cordial julep.

Then follow verses from v. 672-705. From v. 779, to 806, the lines are not in the manufcript, but were added afterwards.

V. 807, This is mere moral ftuff, the very lees

And fettlings of a melancholy blood:

But this, &c.

After v. 813, STAGE-DIRECTION. "The Brothers rufh in, ftrike his "glaffe down: the shapes make as though they would refift, but are all "driven in. Dæmon enters with them."

V. 814. What, have you let the false inchanter pass?

V.816.

-Without his art reverst.

V. 818. We cannot free the Lady that remains.
And, bere fits.

V. 821. There is another way that may be us'd.
V. 826. Sabrina is her name, a goddess chafte.

Then, a virgin chafte, then, a virgin pure.

V. 829. She, guiltleffe damfel, flying the mad perfuite.
V. 831. --To the freame.

But first "the flood."

V. 834. Held up thire white wrifts, and reccav'd her in,

And bore her traite to aged Nereus' hall.

:

a Milton appears to have founded coy, as a diffillable as also coarfe at v. 749. infr. V. 845.

V. 845. Helping all urchin blafts, and ill luck fignes,
That the fhrewd medling elfe delights to leave;
And often takes our cattel with strange pinebes.
Which fhe, &c.

V. 849. Carrol her goodneffe loud in lively layes.
And lovely, from lively.

V. 851. Of panfies, and of bonnie daffadils.

V.853. Each clafping charme, and secret bolding Spell.
V.853. In honour'd virtue's caufe: this will I trie.
Before v. 857, is written, "To be faid."

V. 895. That my rich wheeles inlages.
V. 910. Vertuous Ladie, look on me.
V.921. To waite on Amphitrite in her bowre.
V. 924. May thy crystal waves for this.
V. 927. That tumble downe from fnowie hills.
V. 948. Where this night are come in state.
V.951. All the fwains that near abide.
V.956. Come let us hafte, the ftars are high,

But Night reignes monarch yet in the mid fkie.

STAGE-DIRECTIONS. "Exeunt.-The scene changes and then is præ"fented Ludlow town and the Prefidents caftle: then enter country "dances and fuch like gambols, &c. At thofe sports the Damon with the two Brothers and the Lady enter. The Damon fings."

V.962. Of nimbler toes, and courtly guife,

Such as Hermes did devife.

After v. 965. NO STAGE-DIRECTION, only "A Song.”
V. 971. Their faith, their temperance, and truth.

But patience was firft written, and restored.

V. 973. To a crowne of deathleffe bays.

After v. 975, STAGE-DIRECTION, "The dæmon fings or fays.”
V.979. Up in the plain fields of the sky.

V. 982. Of Atlas and his nieces three.

V.984. This verse and three following were added.

V. 990. About the myrtle alleys fling

Balm and calia's fragrant fmells.

V.992. Iris there with garnisht [or garish] bow.
V.995. Than her purfled scarf can fhew,

Yellow, watchet, greene, and blew.

And drenches oft with manna [or Sabean] dew
Beds of hyacinth and roles,

Where many a cherub foft repofes.

What relates to Adonis, and to Cupid and Pfyche, was afterwards added.

V. 1012. Now my message [or buisnesse] well is done.

The Whole of COMUS, with the corrections and additions, is in Milton's own hand-writing.

I add the manufcript readings of CoмUS, retained in the first edition 1637, but afterwards altered.

V. 195.

V. 195. Stolne. V. 214. Flittering. V. 251. " She fmil'd." V. 472. Hovering. V.513. "I'll tell you." V. 608. Or cleave bis fcalpe down to the hippes.

AT A SOLEMN MUSIC. fol. 4. 5.

TIT." Song: at a, &c."

V. 3. Mixe your choife words, and happiest founds employ,
Dead things with inbreath'd fenfe able to pierce,

And as your equal raptures, temper'd sweet,
In high mifterious fpoufall meet ;

Snatch us from earth awhile,

Us of ourselves and native woes beguile.
And to our high-rays'd phantafie prefent
That undisturbed song, &c.

V, 10. Where the bright Seraphim in triple row.
V. 14. With those just spirits that wear the blooming palms,
Hymnes devout and sacred pfalms

Singing everlastingly;

While all the flarry rounds and arches blue
Refound and echo Hallelu:

That we on earth, &c.

V. 18. May rightly answere that melodious noise,
By leaving out thofe barfb ill founding jarres
of clamorous fin that all our mufick marres:
And in our lives and in our fong

May keepe in tune with heaven, &c.

V. 28. To live and fing with him in endlesse morne of light. There are three draughts, or copies, of this SONG. All in Milton's own hand-writing.

Upon THE CIRCUMCISION. fol. 8.

There are no variations of any confequence in this ODE. It is in Milton's own hand-writing.

ON TIME. fol. 8.

TIT." On Time. To be Jet on a clock-cafe."

In Milton's own hand.

ON THE FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE, &c. fol. 48.

V. 3. The vacant whore pluralitie.

V. 17. Crop ye as clofe as marginal Ps cares.

That is, Prynne's.

This piece is in the hand-writing of Sonnet xvii. See below.

SONN. vii. fol. 6.

No variations except in the spelling. In Milton's own hand who begins the firft, fifth, and ninth verfes, with great letters; all the reft with fmall.

SONN. viii. fol. 9.

TIT." On his dore when the Citty expected an affault." Then, as at prefent: with an addition of the date 1642, afterwards expunged. V. 3. If ever deed of honour did thee please.

This Sonnet is written in a female hand. Only the fecond title is by Milton.

SONN.

'SONN. IX. fol. 9. TIT. "To a Lady."

V. 7. And at thy blooming vertue fret their spleen.
V.13. Opens the dore of bliffe that hour of night.
All in Milton's own hand-writing.

SONN. x. fol. 9.

TIT." To the Lady Margaret Ley." All in Milton's own hand,
SONN. xi. fol. 43.

TIT. "On the detraction which, &c." As we have given it.
V. 1. I writt a book of late call'd Tetrachordon,

And weav'd it clofe, both matter, form, and style:

It went off well about the town awhile,

Numbering good wits, but now is feldom por❜d on.

V. 10. Thofe barbarous names..

Then rough-hewn, then rugged.

V.

All in his own hand.

SONN. xii. fol. 46.

.4. Of owls and buzzards.

V.io. And bate the truth whereby they should be free.

All in his own hand.

SON. xiii. fol. 43. 45.

TIT. "To my friend Mr. Hen. Lawes, feb. 9. 1645. On the publishe
ing of his aires."

V. 3. Words with just notes, which till then us'd to scan,
With Midas' cares, misjoining short and long.

Or," When moft were us'd to fcan.'

V. 6. And gives thee praife above the pipe of Pan.
To after age thou fhalt be writ a man,

Thou didst reform thy art the chief among.

Thou honourft vers, and vers must lend her wing,

V. 12. Fame, by the Tufcan's leav, fhall fet thee higher
Than old Cafell, whom Dante woo'd to fing.

Two copies of this Sonnet are in Milton's hand: a third in another, a man's hand. Milton had an amanuenfis on account of the failure of

his eyes.

SONN. xiv. fol. 45.

TIT. "On the religious, &c. As we have given it. V. 3. Meekly thou didst refign this earthly clod

Of flesh and fin, which man from heaven doth fever.

V. 6. Strait follow'd thee the path, that faints have trod
Still as they journey'd from this dark abcde

Up to the realm of peace and joy for ever.

Faith how'd the way, and he who faw them best
Thy handmaids, &c.

V. 12. And spoke the truth.

There are two copies of this Sonnet, (one corrected,) in Milton's

own hand a third in another, a man's, as of SONN. xiii,

SONN.

1

SONN. XV. fol. 47.

TIT." On the, &c. At the firge of Colchester."

V. 2. And fills each.

V.4. V. 5. V.6.

Which daunt remotest kings.
Thy firm unfhaken virtue.-

--

-Though new rebellions raise

Their hydra heads, and the fals north displays
Her broken league, to impe their ferpent wings.
V.10. For what can war but endless war ftill breed,
Till truth and right from violence be freed,

And publick faith cleard from rhe shamefull brand
Of publick fraud.

This Sonnet is in Milton's own hand.

SONN. xvi. fol. 47.

TIT. "To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652. On the Propofalls "of certaine minifters at the committee for propagation of the gospell." -Who through a cloud

V.1.

Not of war onlie, but detractions rude.

V. 5. And on the neck of crowned fortune proud,

Haft rear'd god's trophies and his work pursued.

As we have given, inftead of " And fought." [See Notes.]
V.7. While Darwen ftreame..

V. 9. And twenty battles more.——
V. 11. No lefs renown'd than war.
V. 12. -With fecular chains.

This Sonnet is in a female hand, unlike that of SONN. viii.
SONN. xvii. fol. 48.

V. I. In fage counsel old.

V. 7. And to advise how war may, best upheld,

V.9.

Move by.-
-Befides to know

What power

the church and what the civill means,

Thou teacheft beft, which few have ever done.
Afterwards thus,

Both fpirituall power and civill, what each means,
Thou haft learn'd well, a praife which few have won.

Laftly, as in our text.

V. 13. Therefore on thy firme hand religion leans
In peace, and reckons thee her eldest fon.

But at first, right hand.

This Sonnet is in a female hand, unlike either of the two last.
[SONNETS Xviii. xix. xx. do not appear.]
SONN. xxi. fol. 49.

The four first lines are wanting.

V. 8. And what the Swedes intend..

In the hand of a fourth woman, as it fecms.

V. 3. Bereft of light.

SONN. xxii. fol. 49.