The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste. Stanza xix. xxii-iii. In the possession of John Knowles, Esq. * * * * * L'ALLEGRO. PICTURE XXX. Faery Mab. In the possession of the Countess of Guilford. PICTURE XXXI. The Friar's Lanthorn. In the possession of Watts Russell, Esq. PICTURE XXXII. The Lubbar Fiend. With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd, and pull'd she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength. V. 101. Picture XXXI. receives still better light from the following lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX. v. 634, &c. ----as when a wand'ring fire, Which oft, they say, some evil Sp'rit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads th' amaz'd night-wand'rer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far. * * * * * IL PENSIEROSO. PICTURE XXXIII. Silence. Some still removed place---- Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. V. 78. In the possession of the Countess of Guilford. PICTURE XXXIV. CHREMHILD meditating revenge over the Sword of SIGFRID. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold---- And if _aught else_ great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung---- V. 109, 116. * * * * * COMUS. PICTURE XXXV. The Palace and the Rout of COMUS; the LADY set in the enchanted Chair, to whom he offered his Glass; the Brothers rushing in with Swords drawn, wrest the Glass out of his hand; his Rout flying. PICTURE XXXVI. Orgies of COTYTTO. BAPTÆ preparing a Philtrum. See the Vth Epode of Horace.