No, he would not then have gotten out of his way so fast.
Ver. 56.
Though Proserpine affects her silent seat.
What made her then so angry with Ascalaphus, for preventing her return? She was now mus'd to Patience under the determinations of Fate, rather than fond of her residence.
Ver. 61, 62, 63.
Pity the poet's, and the ploughman's care,
Interest thy greatness in our mean affairs,
And use thyself betimes to hear our Prayers.
"Which is such a wretched perversion of Virgil's noble thought as Vicars would have blush'd at; but Mr. Ogylby makes us some amends, by his better lines:
O wheresoe'er thou art, from thence incline,
And grant assistance to my bold design!
Pity, with me, poor husbandmen's affairs,
And now, as if translated, hear our prayers.
This is sense, and to the purpose: the other, poor mistaken stuff."
Such were the strictures of Milbourne, who found few abettors, and of whom it
