...shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. (lines 114-18,...

...24. This line and the following are badly misquoted from John Milton's Lycidas, 11. 123ff. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swol'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Presumably, O'Neill...

...occafionally written SED. This practice was continued as far down as the age of Milton. * B. 2. c. 8. Befides what the grim wolf, with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing SEO. Said is thus printed SED in the edition of 1645, that it might appear to rhyme, with greater propriety,...

...What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...

...Robert Palmer Howard,37 of Mon30. John Milton, "Lycidas," line 125. The original reads: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. 31. T. Wesley Mills (1847-1915): Canadian physiologist and veterinarian. He was a classmate of Osler's...

...What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: 70 (Lyc idas [1637], 11s. 119-127) Thus, in response to a clear and obvious calling, Wesley set out...

...What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: joo 105 IIO "5 120 125 96. Hippotades is Aeolus, son of Hippotas, and sage perhaps because he was the...

...aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! . . . Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up and are not fed. The words that are used to describe the state of ordinary people are vivid words. The word...

...srraw,0 The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw,0 Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw0 Dairy devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door, 130 Stands ready...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. (lines 114-17, 123-28) The striking pun upon famished "sheep" (ie, congregants) swelling with wind...