...grovellers in Milton's * Comus : who, when their vices had reduced them -' them to swine, — i ' " Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, 'But boast themselves more comely than before." ' So we, grovelling, despise and forget the glories of '* the olden time, and toast of achievements...

...ounce, or tiger, hog. or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore when any, favoured of high Jove, Chances to pass through this adventurous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing...

...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore when any, favoured of high Jove, Chances to pass through this adventurous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing...

...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore when any, favoured of high Jove, Chances to pass through this adventurous glndc, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing...

...gods is chang'd Into some brutish form : And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive the foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely...native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual stye.' ?jHAT the habits of the railway man render him peculiarly open to this vice, seems too obvious...

...perfeet is their misery, Not onee pereeive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more eomely than before ; And all their friends and native home...with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore when any favoured of high Jove Chanees to pass through this adventurous glade, SwifI as the sparkle of a glaneing...

...bearded goat, All ollnT put*remaining ;is they were; And they, so perfect is their misery, Nul unrc perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves...before: And all their friends and native home forget, II «ith pleasure in a sensual sty. Tliif f'irc when any, favour'd of high Jove, • pass through this...

...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before; 75 And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual stye. Therefore...

...and not at all conscious of their forlorn situation,) like the transformed followers of Comus, — Not once perceive their foul disfigurement ; But boast themselves more comely than before. Methinks, such men, who have found out so short a path, have no reason to complain of the shortness...

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