...fresh-blown roses wasn'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonairc. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful...becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's check, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both...

...into her father's pocket, and stealing the key of the tower, skipped out of the room. CHAPCHAPTER III. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's check, And love to live in dimple sleek. MILTON. IT was not without great violence to his feelings...

..."unreproved" pleasure with Mirth. Second, the diction and rhythms are lighthearted: "Haste thee nymphs and bring with thee / Jest and youthful Jollity, / Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, / Nods, and Becks and Wreathed Smiles." (6) Another sort of example entirely is William Wordsworth's sentimental...

...with thee a daughter fair, So bucksom, blith, and debonair. Hasle thee nymph, and bring with tbee Jesl and youthful jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton...cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrincled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Com, ana trip it as ye go On the light...

...JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBS; PPP; TEP; TrGrPo Milton POETRY QUOTATIONS L 'Allegro 20 Haste thce n's Masterpiece 4 Have you heard and becks, and wreathed smiles, (1. 25—28) 21 Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe....

...of II Penseroso's rejection by embracing everything the Muse-haters despise about poetry and poets: Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sort that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go, On...

...following lines ifor example1 from 'L'Allegro' no doubt appealed to the young Epicurean. Daniel Malthus: 'Haste thee Nymph. and bring with thee / Jest. and...jollity. / Quips and cranks. and wanton wiles. / Nods. and becks. and wreathed smiles' llines 25-8l. The Malthus Library has the Poettcal Works of Milton....

...associated with perpetual youth. This reference to her implicitly invokes Milton's 'L'Allegro', lines 28-30. Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek. 'That might . . . scann'd': unidentified. 33 epigraph: As You Like It, II. i. 3-7. 35 To the Visions...

...man', but also to modulate by mixing his metre with occasional iambics: Haste thee, Nymph, and bting with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks,...sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And laughter holding both his sides. The light'footed trochaic predominates, but the pace is slowed down by the...

...the way. Now it's time to move on to our next set of lessons (nymphs) and tie our first "real" fly. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles. —John Milton, 1608-74. "L'Allegro" Nymphs Accuse not Nature, she...