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" Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know... "
The London Quarterly Review - Page 283
1811
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...the party to which he would attach himself when the time came. He had there denounced the clergy who, "For their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ; Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest....
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...shuts amain,) He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? 115 Llnetl. •< T!>,. r, ion wlmlt," that l«, the rruel wln.lv L. »4. "A beaked promontory" U one...
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Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric

Marjorie Perloff - 1990 - 384 pages
...11) Unshepherded they stray as they list. (p. 10) — Burlesque of St. Peter's speech in "Lycidas": "Of other care they little reck'ning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. . . . And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their Scannel Pipes...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...ftern bejpake, How well could I have tyar'd for thee, young swain, Anow of such as for their beUies sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reck' ring make. Then bow to scramble at the shearers feaft, And shove away the worthy bidden guefl....
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...corrupted Clergy then in their height'. 'How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enough of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude...little reck'ning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know...
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The Life of Isaac Newton

Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 pages
...with the benefice than with principles. Although they had never met, John Milton knew him well. Anow of such as for their bellies sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they litde reck'ning make, Than how to scramble to the shearers feast, And shove away the worthy bidden...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...came, and last did go, The Pilot108 of the Galilean Lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain 110 Enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and...intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they litde reck'ning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...shook his mitred locks, and stem bespake: "How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain. Enough of such as for their bellies' sake. Creep and intrude...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little rcck'ning make. Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. And shove away the worthy bidden guest;...
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Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948: Volume 1: Debates. Volume 2 ...

James Hiller, Michael Harrington - 1995 - 1508 pages
...Office" — I am sick of it. It puts me in mind of a stanza from Milton, this corrupt practice. Enough of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckining make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest;...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...denouncer of false teachers), he had stern words to speak : How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake...and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest....
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