...him a very Medusa. CHAPTER XXXII. Now, gentlemen, I go To turn an actor and a humorist. BEN JONSON. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakspeare. Fancy's child. Warble his native wood notes wild. MILTON. Seeing too much...

...With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...

...1645 — Milton had offered another testimony to Shakspere in his "I/ Allegro," then published : — " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." Milton was not afraid to...

...mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares...

...at least, in his assumed character of L' Allegro, appears to adopt and sanction it, when he says : Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble hia native wood-notes wild. And, after him, Fuller, in...

...mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...

...masque and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves, by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native woodnotes wild. Married to immortal verse,...

...Mask and antique Pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's childe, Warble his native wood-notes wilde. And ever against eating...

...mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. ordsworth Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...

...mask, and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...