...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their kighth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing...

...Irish seas, 1637.] YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And,...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, — dead ere his prime ; — Young Lycidas, — and hath not left his peer : Who would...

...bewails a learned friend *, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637 : and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; • Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland, lie was sailing from...

...bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...learned friend, who, on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637.] YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead,—dead ere his prime ;— Young Lycidas,—and hath not left his peer : Who would...

...poets. Milton employs this colour in the beginning of his " Monody of Lycidas " thus plaintively : Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year ; For Lycidas is dead — . And in the following, from an unknown hand, brown is thus beautifully associated...

...other, as being the genuine effusion of pure friendship, and unaffected piety. JJ Trin. Coll. 1799. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead; dead, ere his prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. MILTON. I was yesterday...

...bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in liis passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, KvJ7 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...Tenors, and Bass.) YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sear, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And,...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due, For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing...