...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...

...and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, Ou summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...

...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 Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating...

...463 Additional Notes to The Alchemist 473 Additional Notes to Bartholomew Fair 480 .ui'l INTRODUCTION 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. THIS, I suppose, is the...

...Milton, 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 his native wood-notes wild. And, after him, Fuller, in...

...what plays he might see, yet one of his pleasures is the performance of the legitimate drama : — " 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." Returning to " the pensive...

...some famous lines from 'L' Allegro' Milton contrasts the different styles of Jonson and Shakespeare: Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, faney's ehild, Warble his native wood-notes wild. (131-4) This is usually...

...move to more literary creations: 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...

...one's youth, a childish toy to be put away in adulthood. The scene then switches to the public theatre: 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 (11. 131-34) Although these...

..."unlettered" writers, comes from Milton's "L'Allegro" and describes Shakespeare in contrast to Ben Jonson: "Then to the well-trod stage anon / If Jonson's learned sock be on / Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child /Warble his native woodnotes wild." 2. "Prefatory Letter,"...