...extend. Neither do I think k ahaan* ••> covenant with any knowing reader, tlinl for suiur few yean » I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I is. now indebted, M being a work not to ba raised from UK he*: . youth or the vapours of wine : like...

...took to poetry as the business of his .life, and certainly he was not slothful in the business." " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...reader, that for * /'. c. conduct, dt'iiicnir Pr., tUnifintre It. t Alluding a^ain to the Book of Sports. some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward...work, not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, — like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury...

...thus expresses himself in his second book of the " Reformation of Church Government," in 1641 :— "Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any...for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from tho heat of youth,...

...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...

...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of whom I am now indebted, 'as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of...

...from the prose of Milton to illustrate his less exalted verse : for indeed this poem is at least ' a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine : like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...

...sour. In contrast to these nefarious modern practices Milton pledges himself to write a true poem : Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...

...his life. "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" (CP I, 820). Remaining beholden kept the energies of his "first being" intact. For who covenants with...

...future poetry: "Neither doe I think it shame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for some few yeers yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted" ( YM 1, 82o).18 The potential reader of Church-Government, however, Puritan or Anglican, would have...