Which piped there unto that merry rout; That iolly Shepheard, which there piped, was Poore Colin Clout, (who knows not Colin Clout?) He pypt apace, whileft they him daunft Pype, iolly Shepheard, pype thou now apace Unto thy Love that made thee low to lout; Thy Love is prefent there with thee in place; Thy Love is there advaunft to be another Grace. XVII. Much wondred Calidore at this firaunge fight, Whofe like before his eye had never feene; And ftanding long astonished in spright, And rapt with pleafaunce, wift not what to weene; Whether it were the traine of Beauties Queene, Or Nymphes, or Faeries, or enchaunted show, With which his eyes mote have deluded beene. Therefore, refolving what it was to know, Out of the wood he rofe, and toward them did go. 'XVII. But, foone as he appeared to their vew, They vanisht all away out of his fight, And cleane were gone, which way he never knew; All fave the Shepheard, who, for fell despight Of that displeasure, broke his bag-pipe quight, And made great mone for that unhappy turne: But Calidore, though no leffe fory wight For that mishap, yet feeing him to mourne, Drew neare, that he the truth of all by him mote learne: XIX. And, firft him greeting, thus unto him spake; "Haile, iolly Shepheard, which thy ioyous dayes Here leadeft in this goodly merry-make, Frequented of these gentle Nymphes alwayes, Which to thee flocke to heare thy lovely layes! Tell me what mote thefe dainty Damzels be, Which here with thee doe make their pleafant playes: Right happy thou, that mayeft them freely fee! But why, when I them faw, fled they away from me?" XVIII. 2. They vanisht all away] Perhaps the allufion is that Sir Philip Sidney, imaged in Calidore, drew Spenfer from his ruftick mufe to Court. UPTON. XX. "Not I fo happy," anfwerd then that S "As thou unhappy, which them didft chace, Whom by no meanes thou canft recall a 66 my place: But fince things paffed none may now r Tell me what were they all, whofe lack grieves fo fore." Tho XXI. gan that Shepheard thus for to dila "Then wote, thou Shepheard, wha thou bee, That all thofe Ladies, which thou fawe Are Venus Damzels, all within her fee But differing in honour and degree: They all are Graces which on her dep Befides a thousand more which ready Her to adorne, whenfo fhe forth doth But those Three in the midft, doe chiefe attend: 66 XXII. They are the Daughters of fky-ruling - XXII. 1. They are the Daughters of Sky-ruling Io What Spenfer here fays of the Graces, is from Hefi By him begot of faire Eurynome, The Oceans daughter, in this pleasant grove, Seneca. See Hefiod, Theog. ver. 907. Tpais d of 'Euperóun Xápilas τέκε κ. τ. λ. And Seneca De Benef. i. 3. "Num dicam quare tres Gratiæ et quare forores fint, &c." JORTIN. Compare Hygin in Præfat." Ex Jove et Eurynome Gratiæ:" with the notes of the learned editor. And Natal. Comes, L. iv. C. 15. UPTON. Milton, in L'Allegro, reprefents the Graces as the offspring of Venus and Bacchus. This mythology, as an ingenious critick on that paffage obferves, fuits the nature of Milton's fubject; but I cannot be perfuaded, that fuch a licence is allowable on any occafion. The mention of Eurynome, in this ftanza, puts me in mind of another paffage in Milton, where the fame goddess is alfo mentioned, Par. L. B. x. 580. "And fabled how the ferpent, whom they call'd "Encroaching Eve, perhaps, had first the rule Which, as the learned Dr, Newton and others, obferve, is race. Ωκεανις, νιφοενος εχον κρατο. Ουλύμποιο. What I would further obferve here, is, that Apollonius, as well as Milton, has hinted, that Ophion was of the Serpent This will appear from confidering the lines juft preceding. Orpheus begins his fong with the creation of things. After mentioning the fun and moon, mountains and rivers, he fpeaks of the creation of ferpents. Ουρία τ' ώς ανέτειλε, καὶ ὡς πόλαμοι κελαδονίες Αύλησι Νύμφησι, καὶ ΕΡΠΕΤΑ παν' εγενοντο. And in the next line, from thofe EPNETA, or ferpents, he directly paffes on to Ophion. Ηειδεν δ ̓ ὡς πρωτον ΟΦΙΩΝ, &c. Thus there is a clofer connection, and an eafier transition, in the context of the Greek poet, than appears at first fight.Spenfer alludes to the fong of Orpheus, and the occafion on which it was fung, more than once. See F. Q. iv. ii. 1. and Sonnet 44. T. WARTON. XXII. 5. Aecidee,] He fhould have In fommers fhade himselfe here refted v The first of them hight mylde Euphro Next faire Aglaia, laft Thalia merry; Sweete goddeffes all Three, which me in do cherry! XXIII. "These Three on men all gracious gifts b Which decke the body or adorne the m To make them lovely or well-favoured As comely carriage, entertainment ky Sweete femblaunt, friendly offices that And all the complements of curtefie: They teach us, how to each degree and We should ourfelves demeane, to low, To friends, to foes; which fkill men call C XXIV... Therefore they alwaies fmoothly fee fmile, faid Eacides, but the rhyme would not admit it. Eacidee: but the old English poets took ftrange liber proper names. Milton endeavours to juftify this ab fuccessfully in my opinion. JoRTIN. Chaucer, in his Legend of Ariadne, affords a remark ftance of this abufe that Dr. Jortin complains of feveral times, within the compafs of forty lines, he tr the letters which form the name Ariadne, and for the his rhyme writes Adriane. CHURCH, XXII. 9. cherish. CHURCH. cherry XXIII. 6. And all the complements] Complements Church obferves, are every thing which ferves to comp virtue of Courtefy. Hughes, and Tonfon's, edition have.corrupted the word into compliments, as before, v. 55, where fee the note. TODD. |