. Select Minor Poems of John Milton . 28 MINOR POEMS. Lest the sorcerer us entice 940 With some other new device. Not a waste or needless sound Till we come to holier ground. I shall be your faithful guide Through this gloomy covert wide ; 945 And not many furlongs thence Is your fathers residence, Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wished presence, and beside 950 All the swains that there abide With jigs and rural dance resort. We shall catch them at their sport. And our sudden coming there Will double all their mirth and cheer. 955 Come, let us haste; the stars
. Select Minor Poems of John Milton . 28 MINOR POEMS. Lest the sorcerer us entice 940 With some other new device. Not a waste or needless sound Till we come to holier ground. I shall be your faithful guide Through this gloomy covert wide ; 945 And not many furlongs thence Is your fathers residence, Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wished presence, and beside 950 All the swains that there abide With jigs and rural dance resort. We shall catch them at their sport. And our sudden coming there Will double all their mirth and cheer. 955 Come, let us haste; the stars grow high, But Night sits monarch yet in the mid-sky. The Scene changes, presenting Ludlow town and the Pres-idents castle; then come in Country Dancers; afterthem the Attendant Spirit, with the two Brothersand the Lady. Song. Spirit. Back, shepherds, back ! enough your playTill next sunshine holiday. Here be, ivithout duck or nod, 960 Other trippings to be trodOf lighter toes, and such court guiseAs Mercury ^ did first devise -— .. COMUS. 129 With the mincing Dryades On the iazuns and on the leas, 965 This second Song presents them to their Father and Mother. Noble lord and lady bright, I have brought ye new delight. Here behold so goodly growfi Three fair branches of your own. Heaven hath timely tried their youth, 970 Their faith, their patience, and their truth. And sent them here through hard assays With a crown of deathless praise, To triumph in victorioits dance O^er sejisual folly and inte^nperance. 975 The dances ended, the Spirit epiloguizes. Spirit. To the ocean now I those happy chmes that HeWhere Day never shuts his eye,Up in the broad fields of the I suck the Uquid air 980 All amidst the gardens fairOf Hesperus ^ and his daughters threeThat sing about the golden the crisped shades and bowersRevels the spruce and jocund Spring; 9S5 The Graces ^ and the rosy-bbsomed Hours ^Thither all their bounties eternal summer dwells, ^
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