...mother's witcheries, And wanton as his father ; And here to ev'ry thirsty wanderer By sly enticements gives his baneful cup, With many murmurs mix'd, whose...instead, unmoulding reason's mintage. Character^! in the face. This have I learnt Tending my flock hard by, ¡' th' hilly crofts That brow this bottom...

...here to ev'ry thirsty wanderer By sly enticements gives his baneful cup, With many murmurs inix'd, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms...beast Fixes instead, unmoulding reason's mintage, Character'd in the face. This have I learnt Tending my flock hard by, i" th' hilly crofts That brow...

...mother's witcheries, And here to everv- thirsty wanderer, By sly enticement gives his baneful cup. .530 With many murmurs mix'd, whose pleasing poison The...a beast Fixes instead, unmoulding reason's mintage (526) Comus is a sorcerer, as Cuba bis prototype borders upon the tropical circle; and sorcerers, magicians,...

...dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe born, great Comus, „ Deep skill'd in all his mother's witcheries, And here to every thirsty wanderer, By sly enticement gives his baneful cup, 530 With many murmurs mix'd, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,...

...sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe born, great Comus, Deep skill'd in all his mother's witcheries, And here to every thirsty wanderer, By sly enticement gives his baneful cup, 530 With many murmurs mix'd, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,...

...sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe horn, great Coraus, Deep skill'd in all his mother's witcheries; And here to every thirsty wanderer By sly enticement gives his baneful cup, 625 \Vith many murmurs mix'd, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,...

...sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe born, great Comus, Deep skill'd in all his mother's witcheries ; And here to every thirsty wanderer By sly enticement...baneful cup, With many murmurs mix'd, whose pleasing poisen The visage quite transforms of him that drinks, And the inglorious likeness of a beast Fixes...

...And here to every thirsty wanderer By sly enticement gives his baneful cup, With many murmurs nuVd, sn Character'd in the face : this have I learnt 530 Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts. That...

...sorcerer dwells, Of Bacchus and of Circe born, great Comus, Deep skill'd in all his mother's witcheries ; And here to every thirsty wanderer By sly enticement...a beast Fixes instead, unmoulding reason's mintage Character'd in the face. This have I learn'd Tending my flocks hard by in the hilly crofts, That brow...

...who taste his baneful cup as the truest and fullest portraiture of the degradation of Vice, which " The visage quite transforms of him that drinks, And the inglorious likeness of a beast Fixes instead ; unmolding reason's mintage CharacterM in U»e face ," Such representations never fail of their effect...