 My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the...  British Theatre - Page 23by John Bell - 1791Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 pages
...me thought it was the sound Of Riot, and ill manag'd Merriment, Such as the jocond Flute, or gamesom Pipe Stirs up among the loose unletter'd Hinds, When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full 175 In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loath To meet... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocond flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds, When, for their teeming flocks and granges...bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers ; yet, oh ! where else Shall... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds, 175 When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...ill manag'd Merriment, Such as the jocond Flute, or gamesom Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds, When for their teeming Flocks, and granges...thank the gods amiss. I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill'd insolence Of such late Wassailers . . . [170-79] The contrast between these... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now, methought it was the sound Of riot, and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds, When for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the... | |
 | Leah S. Marcus - 1989 - 340 pages
...rather less threatening noise of peasants immersed in the "ill manag'd Merriment" of a harvest festival: Such as the jocund Flute, or gamesome Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full In wanton dance they praise the bounteous... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...ill manag'd Merriment, Sue}} as thejocond Flute, orgamesom Pipe Stirs up among tie loose unleter'd Hinds, When for their teeming Flocks, and granges...thank the gods amiss. I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill' d insolence Of such late Wassailers; yet O where els Shall I inform my unacquainted... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...543-48) This way the noise was, if mine ear be true. My best guide now; methought it was the sound Of Riot and ill-manag'd Merriment, Such as the jocund...praise the bounteous Pan, and thank the gods amiss. (11. 170-77) The Lady does not for a second suspect that "the noise" has anything supernatural about... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...noise was if mine ear be true, My best guide now; methought it was the sound Of riot, and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose, unlettered hinds, When for their teeming flocks and granges full In wanton dance they praise the bounteous... | |
 | David Bevington, Peter Holbrook - 1998 - 358 pages
...they roar'.25 Yet the Lady subsequently hears Comus's revelry as the sound Of riot, and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds When for their teeming flocks, and granges full In wanton dance they praise the bounteous... | |
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