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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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John Milton. (1608–1674) (continued)
 
2724
    This cordial julep here,
That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.
          Comus. Line 672.
2725
    Budge doctors of the Stoic fur.
          Comus. Line 707.
2726
    And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
          Comus. Line 727.
2727
    It is for homely features to keep home,—
They had their name thence; coarse complexions
And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply
The sampler and to tease the huswife’s wool.
What need a vermeil-tinctur’d lip for that,
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?
          Comus. Line 748.
2728
    Swinish gluttony
Ne’er looks to heav’n amidst his gorgeous feast,
But with besotted base ingratitude
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
          Comus. Line 776.
2729
    Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric,
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
          Comus. Line 790.
2730
    His rod revers’d,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
          Comus. Line 816.
2731
    Sabrina fair,
  Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
  In twisted braids of lilies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
          Comus. Line 859.
2732
    But now my task is smoothly done,
I can fly, or I can run.
          Comus. Line 1012.
2733
    Or if Virtue feeble were,
Heav’n itself would stoop to her.
          Comus. Line 1022.
2734
    I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forc’d fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
          Lycidas. Line 3.
2735
    He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
          Lycidas. Line 10.