348 
tis fir edition, but in the fecond edition 
the original reading’ was reftored. Fenton 
was, however, jultified in the alteration by 
the ufe of the word at verfe 535, where 
the Spirit defcribes Comus and his rout as 
Doing abhorred rites to Hecate. 
V. 179. Yet O! where elfe 
Shall linform my wacquainted feet. 
Hurd obferves,. that ** the expreffion 
© unacquainted feet, is a little hard!”’— 
Milton, however, followed Spenfer in the 
Faerie Queene :-— 
She greatly grew amazed at the fight, 
And th’ usacquainted light began to feare. 
‘ P. 66, vol. 3, ed. 1590. 
V.213:; O welcome pure-ey’d Faith, white- 
handed Hope, 2 
Thou hovering Angel, girt with 
golden wings, 
And thou, ‘¢ unblemifh’d” form of 
Chaftity } 
The laft line was originally written 77- 
fpotted, but was afterwards altered, pey- 
baps from being toc like a line in Drayton's 
6* Legend of Matilda the Faire :”— 
Whofe form xn[potted Chaftity may take. 
' Works, vol, 2 ps 546, ed. Oldys. * 
V. 334. Difinherit Chaos, that reigns here 
In double night of darkne/s and of fhades. 
Tt is not neceflary to recur to the tene- 
bra conduplicantur of Pacuvius for this 
expreffion, which is to be met with in 
Drayton’s Moon Calf :— 
And on the noonited bring a double night. 
Vol. 2, p. 486, ut fup. 
Compare alfo Cartwright :— 
That whiles thick darkne/s blots the light 
My thoughts may caft another zight 5 
In which double fhade, &c. 
. Works, p. 223, ed. 1651. 
The latter extract may ferve to illuftrate 
a paflage in Paradife Regained :— 
—— Now began 
Night with ber fullen wing to double_foade 
The defert. B. 3, p. 499. 
¥. 420. Chafity: 
She thar has that 
May trace buge forefis, and unhar- 
bour’d heaths, 
Infamous billsy and fandy perilous 
wilds. \ 
Milton had claffical authority for this 
expreffion in the Infames Scopulos of Ho- 
* This is not noticed in the account of 
Oldys’s publications in the new edition of the 
Biographical DiGtionary, _ 
- 
Annotations upon Milton.‘ 
os [May 1, 
race; butit may be zraced in the Pifcatory 
Eclogues appended to Fletcher’s Purple 
Ifland, printed the year in which Comus 
was Written fa 
And now Ae haunts th? infamous woods and 
downs. ~Ev sp. 45 4t0. 1633. 
V. 662. Fool, do not boaft, 
Thou canft not touch the freedom of 
my mind 
With all thy charms, altho this 
corpora] rind . 
Thou haft immanacled. 
In Lewis Machin’s Comedy of ‘¢ The 
Dumb Knight,’ reprinted in Dodfley’s 
Old Plays, the Queen replies to the King 
of Cyprus in the fame animated manner, 
and in language and fentiments equally 
dignified ; and which, as the play was 
printed, for the fecond time, the year im 
which Comus was written, Milton pro- 
bably remembered :— 
Thou may’ft be matter of my body’s tomb, 
‘But for my foul and mind they are as free 
As their creation, and with Angel’s wings 
Can foar beyond thy reach. ; 
Old Plays, vol. 4, p. 419, ed. 1780. 
Coarfe complexions, 
And cheeks of forry grain, will ferve 
to ply ss 
The fampler, and to teafe the huf- 
wife’s wool. 
Wat need a vermeil-tinGured \ip for 
jet ey ela f 
Love-darting eyes, or treffes like the 
morn ? 
The beauty of this paffage might alone 
be a fufficient apology for my quoting it, 
but L-have copied it in order to notice an 
elegant expreffion, fomething fimilar to’ 
V. 749. 
» Milton’s ** vermeil-tindtured,? in a for- 
gotten poem by Quarles :— 
A fweet vermilion-tinGure fain’d 
The bride’s fair cheek. 
Argalus and Parthenia, p. 118. 4to. 1647- 
In the turn of his mind, Quarles re- 
fembled Milton; though by fome he has 
been undefervedly defpifed. Mr. Headley 
very judicioufly obferves: ** He too often, 
no doubt, miftook the enthufiafm of de- 
votion for the infpiration of fancy; to 
mix the waters of Jordan and Helicon in 
the fame cup was referved for the hand 
of Milton; and for him, and him only, to 
find the bays of Mount. Olivet equally 
verdant with thofe of Parnafius.* 
_V. 760. I hate when Vice can bolt ber argy- 
ments. . 
N 
* Seleé& Beauties, vol. 1, p. 61. For this 
fimile Headley is indebted toFuller. ‘Quarles — 
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