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...quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the Moon...And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves, By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies...

...dapper. The dapper dilteis that I won't devise To please youths' fancy. Sptruer. Shepherd's Calender. And on the tawny sands and shelves. Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Millón. A pert dapper spark of a magpie fancied the birds would never be governed till himself should...

...shewed a country village, miirrice-duncing, and peasants together by the ears. Peaeham. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morricc move. Milton. There went about the country a set of morriccdancers, composed of ten men, who...

...a principle of poetical analogy. — So in these lines of Milton (Comus): The sounds, and seas, and all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move — purpose and union, as well as voluntary subserviency, are attributed to mere natural agents. seizes...

...quire, Who in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon...dapper elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to...

...short staves, to which bells are fastened, and which they frequently clash together. The Eounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrii rove. MILTON'S Conns. MORRIS, NINE MEN'S, a game formerly played by country people on the green...

...spheres, , Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, ns Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on...dapper elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to...

...spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, 115 Now to the moon in wavering morrice move; And , on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies...

...paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweets. MILTON. A IK! on tin: tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Contrasted, &c. No ivory work my halls infold, Nor arched ceilings gleaming gold ; Nor bear Hymettian...