...has observed, cannot but lay strong hold on the imagination, and carry it back to the scenes Whore throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold. • Hist, of Craven, p. 279. " Item, one kyrtle of cremesyn velvett, lyned with whyte sarsenet, and...

...political corruption might gradually find its way to rapacious courtezans, to imperious matrons, and That store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit and arms— At all events, the corruption which now circulates among the members of parliament...

...Towered, cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, 120 In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of...whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. 125 There let Hymen oft appear...

...blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. Instead of looking through...

...are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes of...

...creep, By whispering Windes soon luud asleep. Towred Cities please us then, And the busie humm of men, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold, With slore of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both...

...giant, ongoing chivalric entertainment: "Tow'red Cities please us then / And the busy hum of men, / Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, / In weeds...Peace high triumphs hold, / With store of Ladies" (11. 1 12-20). L'Allegro's depiction sounds innocuous, especially since we know that Milton once planned...

...Cousines so disastrously trained the little Jehan de Saintre; or queening it at tournaments, one of the store of ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the graceful ideal still lingers, though shot already with other...

...nut-brown ale. 7519 'L'Allegro' Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. 7520 'L'Allegro' IS WATCHING YOU. 8379 Nineteen Eighty-Four War is peace. Freedom is slavery Of wit or arms. 7521 'L'Allegro' (of Mirth, one of three Graces) So buxom, blithe, and debonair. 7522...

...1645 edition to separate the two clauses: Towred Cities please us then, And the busie humm of men, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds...triumphs hold, With store of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom...