...and Prose of William Blake, p. 683, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: Sometimes with secure delight The upland Hamlets will...round And the jocund Rebecks Sound To many a Youth & many a Maid Dancing in the chequerd Shade And Young & Old come forth to play On a Sunshine Holiday...

...latter is easily managed by the voice, he makes the song itself imitative. Thus, in that song, "Let the merry bells ring round, / And the jocund rebecks...and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequer'd shade," — he makes the voice in the beginning imitate the sound of a chime of bells, and in the end the motion...

...fantastic toe. And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; (1. 33-36) 22 pring opens (touching sk chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, (1. 93—98) 23 Tells...

...dessen Titel bereits die Grundstimmung des Gedichts vorwegnimmt, stehen etwa folgende Verse: [...] When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday [...] (Z. 91-98; 1969:...

...ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the Checker'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a Sunshine...livelong daylight fail; Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale, 100 With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat; She was pincht and pull'd, she...

...it as potentially enjoyable to watch: "To many a youth, and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade; / And young and old come forth to play / On...daylight fail, / Then to the spicy nut-brown ale" (95-100). Still, Milton's final, conditional endorsement of a mirthful, social existence - "These delights...

...bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells...

...bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine...spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, She was pinched and pulled, she said; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin...

...Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight...