...mankind, could love but thee alone. HENRY. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? Those limbs, in...rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain; 371 When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns, from the neighbouring wood ;...

...indistinct decay. LORD BYRON 1174 HENRY TO EMMA )UT canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain? those limbs, in lawn and softest silk arrayed, from sunbeams guarded and of winds afraid, can they bear angry Jove? can they resist the parching...

...love but you alone. The simplicity of which passage Prior has thus decorated and dilated. HENRY. — Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array'd From...the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns from the neighbouring wood; And find among the cliffs no other house,...

...passage Prior has thus decorated and dilated. HENRY. — Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk arra/d From sun-beams guarded, and of winds afraid ; Can...the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns from the neighbouring wood; And find among the cliffs no other house,...

...thus decorated and dilated : HENRY. Thofe limbs, in lawn and fofteft filk array 'd, From fun-beams guarded, and of winds afraid ; Can they bear angry Jove ? can they refift The parching dog-ltar, and the bleak north-eaft ? When, chill'd by adverfe fnows and beating...

...of all mankind, could love but thee alone But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive ' Sure peace is his ; a solid life, Wo tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food. Berries...

...rendition of the two stanzas just given : HENRY. But canst thou, tender maid, canst thou sustain Afflictive want, or hunger's pressing pain ? Those limbs in lawn...with weary steps the longsome plain ; 'When with hard to1l we seek our evening food, 1 A corruption of par Diet/, by God One may almost say that in the Middle...

...that; but, two hundred years afterward, this is Prior's idea of the way it should have been said: " Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array'd, From...the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns from the neighbouring wood; And find among the cliffs no other house...

...of the way this particular verse ought to have been written : Those limbs, in softest silks arrayed, From sunbeams guarded and of winds afraid, Can they...rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain, . . . Wilt thou not then reluctant send thine eye Around the dreary waste, and, weeping, try ... To...

...Prior's idea of the way it should have been said : " Those limbs, in lawn and softest silk array M, From sunbeams guarded and of winds afraid, Can they...the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns from the neighbouring wood; And find among the cliffs no other house...