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...admirable adaptation to express the first effect upon the ear, of a scene, however late the hour, " Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of Ladies"— . The busy bee may close his labours with the day : but Man, intent on pleasure, holds another languageRigour...

...entertainment in the Townscene, the time is irrevocably fixed to day. Let us view the passage, then : Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold ; [1800V| With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms,...

...Chivalry, but the manners described in them, that took his fancy; as appears from his Allegro — ' Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, Where...whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend • To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso...

...but the manners described in them, that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro-*— , Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, .••...whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso he...

...tournaments, and all the paraphernalia of the Round Table. " Where throngs of knights and barons bold i In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Iteign influence, and judge the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both intend To win her grace whom all...

...knight Hudibras himself, which brings us through a complete circuit of the moon from Une 69. Toured cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while...

...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whispering winds soon lullVl asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, 1^0 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Bain influence, and judge the prize Of wit^ or arms, while...