...shades, She may pass on with unblench't majesty, 430 Be it not don in pride, or in presumption. Som say no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blew meager Hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magick chains at cur feu time, 435 No goblin,...

...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity....

...letter written by Lord Acton to Bishop Creighton in i887. But John Milton, two centuries earlier, wrote: Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity....

...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench't majesty, Be it not don in pride, or in presumption. Som say no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blew meager Hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magick chains at Curfeu time, No Goblin,...

...fairy meant to our ancestors. A good point to begin at is provided by three passages from Milton: (1) No evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire,...moorish fen, Blue meagre Hag or stubborn unlaid ghost — No goblin or swart Faery of the mine. (Comus, 432 sq.) (2) Like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian...

...magical powers of the earth, a feeling that we walk surrounded by presences that should be propitiated: Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen ... No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. This is the poetry...

...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say...walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, No goblin or swart faery of the mine Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. (lines 42o-37) His speech...

...shades,0 She may pass on with unblenched majesty,0 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.0 Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish ten,'' Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost,0 That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,0 No...

...or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Pine n-.eag.c hag, or stubborn, unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time. No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is...

...after them that they forget their way." [HF] IMilton alludes to the superstition in Comus 431-37, "Som say no evil thing that walks by night / In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen . . . Hath hurtfull power o're true Virginity" [V] 635 compact of. Composed of, as in Shakespeare,...