Milton, Comus, 494:
Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed
The puddling brook to hear his madrigal.—Wakefield.
Garth, in his Dispensary, canto iv., says that, when Prior sings,
The banks of Rhine a pleased attention show,
And silver Sequana forgets to flow.
[10] Milton, Comus:
That dumb things shall be moved to sympathise.—Steevens.
In the tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas, Congreve says of the tigers and wolves, that
They dumb distress and new compassion show.
[11] Virg. Ecl. vii. 60:
Jupiter et læto descendet plurimus imbri.—Pope.