...as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth,...more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic Wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once...

...provide us with materials for illustration. ßut œm thou Goddess fair and free> In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely...more To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as som Sager sing) The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring, Zephir with Aurora playing, As he met her...

...Mirth's origins. After describing Melancholy, at "blackest midnight born," the poet sings of the birth of "heart-easing" Mirth, "Whom lovely Venus at a birth...sister Graces more / To Ivycrowned Bacchus bore." But, he adds, there is another version of the story of Mirth: "The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring...

...of Venus. 3 Milton has said in a pleasant strain, "Come thou Goddess fair and free In heaven y'dep'd Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing mirth, Whom lovely...two sister graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity." 4 I know how difficult it is to...

...Waller's "The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning" and Horace's Odes 2, 8, 12., and, for Mirth, Milton's "heart-easing Mirth, / Whom lovely Venus at a birth...Sister Graces more / To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore" in "L'Allegro" (11. I3ff.). With this female figure of Comedy, Addison begins to anticipate the connections...

...Allegro 6. Penseroso, 5 January 1739 Song by the Boy But come Thou Goddess, fair & free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne; And by men, Heart-easing Mirth,...two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Recit: Beard. Accomp: Or whether (as some Sages sing) The frolick wind, that breathes the Spring, Zephyr...

...Cimmerian desert ever dwell.0 10 But come thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne,0 And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus...more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some sager sing)0 The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Zephyr with Aurora playing,0 As he met her once...

...Zephyr's courtship of than Cimmeria" was proverbial. Spring, mother of the flowers, in his mask of ChloAnd by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more 15 To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some Sager sing) The frolic Wind that breathes the Spring,...

...locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely...more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore: Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once...