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...and flashy •ongs Grate on the scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and ore not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.'* Richard Baxter paints an equally dark picture of the Shropshire...

...additional number of Churches for the countless multitudes, " the hungry sheep," who, in that vast city, -look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread 1. To this eminent example of Episcopal zeal, watchfulness, and activity, let us not lose the satisfaction...

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...for the protection of all animals. He thought often of the moving lines from John Milton: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swol'n with wind,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... A great poem about a shepherd. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, John Sleaford told himself. I know my...

...che le pecorelle, che non sanno, tornan del pasco pasciute di vento. (Paradiso 29, 107-08) The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw. (Lycidas, 125-26) There is, of course, much in Dante's Catholicism that proves incompatible with Milton's...

...and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf109 with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine110 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,"1 the dread...

...recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...

...first allusion to one of the autograph's crucial contexts, "Lycidas" 125-27 (italics added): The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spred. Littleton's 1760 Dialogues of the Dead similarly links contagion of satire to the rank draft...