...consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passion spent. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude; And , with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...227 Blucher; or, the Adventures of a Newfoundland Dog ; .259 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. Yet mce more, oh ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berriea harsh and crude . ' And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...

....259 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. Yet once more, oh ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with iyy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear,...

...wait on her. Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. LYCIDAS. In this monody the author bewaita a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seoa, Iti37, and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET...

...MS. LY CID AS. IN tliis Monody, the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in liis passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637 ; and...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...strong ; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled!" VOL. III. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh aud crude^; And, with forced finders rudp, Shatter your leayes before tlie mellowing year Bitter constraint...

...strong ; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled!" VOL. III. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more O ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never eere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude'; And, with forced finders rude, Shatter your leaves...

...casting a look first at the Paradise Regained and then at the Samson Agonistes, to be set a-reciting " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy ever sere !" and then we had nothing for it but to read over the whole in our very best manner. Few...

...116, ' Fall down from those thy chiming spheres.' Warton and Todd. 100 stoop] 'bow.' MS. LYCIDAS. la this Monody, the author bewails a learned friend,...drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, KvJ7 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more,...

...MilUm. Who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet un wounded enemies? id, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with/or««1 fingers rude Shatter our leave» before the mellowing year. ¡Л. He swifter far, Me overtook,...