...fine passage of his L'Allegro: Sometime walking, not unseen, * * * * " While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land; And the milk-maid...landscape round it measures: Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling Bocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do...

...Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green. * * * * While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land; And the milk-maid...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling...

...elms, on hillocks green. * * * * While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land j And the milk-maid singeth blithe, And the mower whets...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures: Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling...

...Rob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid...Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasure;, Whilst the landskip round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains...

...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns,...whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rebt ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees...

...Rob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight. While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, * And the milkmaid...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling...

...in flames and amber light, • The clouds in thousand liveries dight, While the ploughman, near at hand, * Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pie Whilst the landskip round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks...

...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures. wn free will, his will though free, Yet mutable; whence warn him to beware pide, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,...

...labouring people sing has not been forgotten by Milton, in his L'Allegro ; While the ploughman near at hand, ' Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Servius says, that frondator is sometimes used to signify a bird that lives among the leaves, and feeds...

...While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blythe, And the mower whets his scythe ; And every shepherd...hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling...