...The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures : Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast...

...The clouds in thousand liveries dight, 1 While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the laudskip round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, 2 Mountains...

...The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do...

...state, Eob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk-maid...pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains on whose barren breast...

...PLEASURES. LET me wander, not unseen, By hedge-row-elms, on hillocks green, While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the...pleasures "Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Eusset lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains, on whose barren breast...

...The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the lantskip round it measures: Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains...

...of sound, song, dance, folk tale and pageant: the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies,...

...Sees the great sun begin his state, " While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land ; And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale." A thorough Englishman, his eye observes not only the simplicity of rural life, but " Towers and battlements...

...remains nevertheless lighthearted in tone: While the plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower...shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. There is a happy stylization here, a stylization even more deliberately cultivated in such an image...

...his state Robed in Flames & amber Light The Clouds in thousand Liveries dight While the Plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land And the Milkmaid...Shepherd tells his Tale Under the Hawthorn in the Dale. They are 11. 57—68 in The Works of John Milton, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 36. Blake's comments on his illustration,...