Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures... Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 1281899Full view - About this book
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...contemplative and aesthetic leisure. As such, "L'Allegro" is also an invitation to liberation: And in thy right hand lead with thee, The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 332 pages
...of the four-line closing of the invocation. Here "I" is linked with the first mention also of "me": And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crue To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free.20 Since the lines following... | |
 | Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...dwell. But haste Thee, Mirth, & bring with Thee The mouutain Nymp[h], Sweet Liberty. Recit: by the boy And if I give thee Honour due, Mirth admit me of thy Crew. Song by the Boy Mirth admit me of thy Crew, To live with Her & live with Thee, In unreproved pleasures... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2006 - 66 pages
...it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free: To hear the lark begin his flight,... | |
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