[44]. In many a winding bout. L’Allegro, 139–140.

III. ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON

The references are to the Globe Edition of Shakespeare, and Masson’s three-volume edition of Milton’s Poetical Works. See The Round Table, ‘On Milton’s Versification,’ vol. i. pp. 36 et seq., for passages used again for the purposes of this lecture. See also ibid. ‘Why the Arts are not Progressive?’ pp. 160 et seq., and notes to those two Essays.

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[46]. The human face divine. Paradise Lost, III. 44.

And made a sunshine in the shady place. Faerie Queene, I. III. 4.

The fault has been more in their [is not in our] stars. Cf. Julius Caesar, I. 2.

[47]. A mind reflecting ages past. See vol. IV. notes to p. 213.

All corners of the earth. Cymbeline, III. iv.

Nodded to him. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, III. 1.