and Philip, Thule:
| "Like woodland flowers, which paint the desert glades, And waste their sweets in unfrequented shades." |
Hales quotes Waller's
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"Go, lovely rose, Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide Thou must have uncommended died." |
On desert air, cf. Macbeth, iv. 3: "That would be howl'd out in the desert air."
[57.] It was in 1636 that John Hampden, of Buckinghamshire (a cousin of Oliver Cromwell), refused to pay the ship-money tax which Charles I. was levying without the authority of Parliament.
[58.] Little tyrant. Cf. Thomson, Winter:
"With open freedom little tyrants raged."
The artists who have illustrated this passage (see, for instance, Favourite English Poems, p. 305, and Harper's Monthly, vol. vii. p. 3) appear to understand "little" as equivalent to juvenile. If that had been the meaning, the poet would have used some other phrase than "of his fields," or "his lands," as he first wrote it.