...bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee,...

...that cross the person of Melancholy and which constitute the prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (.fig, 61). 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !...

...and which constitute the prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (fig. 61). And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, ' Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !...

...fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will dt-ign a song, in her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing...rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,...

...as an emblem of his " II Penseroso," when it was in his power thus to tune his heavenl/ lyre : — " 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged hrow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th* nccustom'd oak . Sweet bird, that...

...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! ' II Penseroso. See also<the exquisite allusions in Paradise Lost, Books iii. and m ciation only...

...compose part of the solemn scenery of his Penseroso, when he describes it. In her saddest sweetest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !...

...bring w Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...

...remarked that this stanza is indebted to the following passage in the 11 Penseroso of Milton, ver. 61 : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !* * Gaw. Douglas, in his Translation of Virgil, Prolog- to book xiii. p. 450, describes the notes...

...bring Him that yon' soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation : And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that, shuun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !...