An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

THE PERSONS

• The Attendant Spirit, afterward in the habit of Thyrsis.
• Comus, with his Crew.
• The Lady.
• First Brother.
• Second Brother.
• Sabrina, the Nymph.

The Chief Persons which presented were:

• The Lord Brackley;
• Mr. Thomas Egerton, his Brother;
• The Lady Alice Egerton.

The First Scene discovers a Wild Wood.

The Attendant Spirit descends or enters.

Before the starry threshold of Jove's court

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes

Of bright aerial spirits live insphered

In regions mild of calm and serene air,