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... Song in Comus ( 1.243 ) . In the version we all know the song concludes : So maist thou be translated to the skies , And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies . In the Bridgewater Manuscript , which was first printed by Todd in ...
... Song in Comus ( 1.243 ) . In the version we all know the song concludes : So maist thou be translated to the skies , And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies . In the Bridgewater Manuscript , which was first printed by Todd in ...
Page 123
... song were first printed in the folio of 1647 , but long before that date the song had become very popular , and it appears in several manuscript collections from about 1620 onwards . In one of these , MS Malone 21 in the Bodleian , it ...
... song were first printed in the folio of 1647 , but long before that date the song had become very popular , and it appears in several manuscript collections from about 1620 onwards . In one of these , MS Malone 21 in the Bodleian , it ...
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... song is sung ... they alighted from theyr Chariots , and daunc'd forth theyr first Daunce ; then a second , immediately following it : both right curious , and full of subtile , and excellent Changes The first was to the Cornets , the ...
... song is sung ... they alighted from theyr Chariots , and daunc'd forth theyr first Daunce ; then a second , immediately following it : both right curious , and full of subtile , and excellent Changes The first was to the Cornets , the ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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