...bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold ; With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commendThere let Hymen oft appear In. sain-on robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry,...

...bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend...grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear IK In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry,...

...and at the .weddings of the rich and noble, these stately triumphs graced the solemn festival. " Then let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe with taper clear,...pomp, and feast, and revelry, With masque and antique pageant Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eve by haunted stream." The gorgeous visions...

...bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold; « With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend...taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream,...

...bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, i20 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend...grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear 125 In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry,...

...bold, 120 In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, 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 In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast and revelry,...

...bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, 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 things to the ghostly paradigm 'beyond', Milton is here looking at them....

...Genius Loci," in Beyond Formalism, pp. 316-17. 14. The imagery of L'Allegro is overtly epithalamic: There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper...antique pageantry: Such sights as youthful poets dream. (Poetical Works, pp. 88-92) 15. See Sacks on the complex occasion of the poem, pp. 90-94. 16. See Moschus,...

.... . pageantry"] John Milton, "L'Allegro," 1645, 11. 125-28. The lines in Patterson's edition read: There let Hymen oft appear In Saffron robe, with Taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique Pageantry. See The Works Of John Milton. Vol. 1, Pt. 1. 1931, p. 39. 192.7-10 "Let...

...Peace high triumphs hold, With slore of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace,...appear In Saffron robe, with Taper clear, And pomp, andfeasl, and revelry, With mask, and antique Pageantry, Such sights as youthfull Poets dream On Summer...