...Rubens — the most blooming flesh-tints, the loveliest coloring." At other times he seemed delighted to "Welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity." — Сотиз. When called on to exercise his ingenuity in allegorical and emblematical compositions...

...others as costly. " Jack," cried the Protector, " give us a distich — after thy Comus fashion." " Midnight Shout and Revelry, Tipsy Dance and Jollity, Braid your locks, with roses twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine. Rigour now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous...

...torches in their hands. Comus. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay...Jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine, Dropping odors, dropping wine. Rigor now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrup'lous head, Strict Age and sour...

...hastening, it is the time of eve, •' And the gilded car of day His glowmg axle doth allay In the deep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam...against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of Im-chamber in the east. Meanwhile welcome joy and feast," &c. This is the time, he says, to " BniiJ...

...torches in their hands. COMUS. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of Heaven doth hold : And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay,...stream ; And the slope Sun his upward beam Shoots agamst the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the East. Meanwhile welcome Joy,...

...&c. — P. The original lines were rejected, probably as too nearly resembling a passage in Comus, " And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream." — Bowles. And naked youths and painted chiefs admire 405 Our speech, our colour, and our strange...

...torches in their hands. Camus. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay...locks with rosy twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine. ' Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance anil jollit) ." Rigour...

...torches in their hands. Com. The star, that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay...Midnight shout, and revelry, Tipsy dance, and jollity, i Braid your locks with rosy twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine. Rigour now is gone to bed, And...

...áyav veapóv. Song of Co m us. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay...Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the cast. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Braid...

...Their nights were always passed in true Comus fashion; it was with them as with Milton's enchanter : " Welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity." These Bacchanalian orgies, as a matter of course, led to broils and quarrels, which had to be settled...