...make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; f~'Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A" sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What...

...scramble at the shearers' feast, fy_ /• • And shove away the worthy bidden guest. *" "^^^ ]jijnci mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! ^^-Jx^-c,^*^ What recks...

...and self-examination which must constantly attend the pastor himself if he would not be one of those Blind mouths, that scarce themselves know how to hold...least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs.* Another of his famous books he called Dialogues : perhaps the least valuable of all his writings. It...

...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What...

...suggestion or 'projection', rather than statement, as in the famous and terrifying lines of prophecy: Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they?...

...Calendar. St. Peter appears again in Milton's Lycidas, to utter a formidable denunciation of bad pastors: Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!2* A few lines before, Milton...

...themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn d ought els the leaft That to thefaithfull Herdmans art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are Sped; And when they lift, their lean andjiashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched sTraw, The hungry Sheep...

...shears And slits the thin-spun life. 28 Last came, and last did go. The pilot of the Galilean lake. 29 P7 . 6 .@ 0 learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need...

...reck'ning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need...

...rigorously to restate this problem. The swain meditates the death of the skilled Lycidas amidst hedonistic "blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold / A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least / That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs" (119-21). As one of these...