...the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? Thay are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep (the starving people of this country from 1933-39) look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and...

...the least Tha1 to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what...

...first allusion to one of the autograph's crucial contexts, "Lycidas" 125-27 (italics added): The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spred. Littleton's 1760 Dialogues of the Dead similarly links contagion of satire to the rank draft...

...parts of the body); flatus." In support of this definition, the dictionary quotes Lyridas: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. (125-27) As in Raphael's admonition to Adam, Milton here equates food with knowledge, nourishment with...

...ever-mounting abuses in the present-day church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in...

...the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped. And when they list their lean and flashy songs...straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what...

...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. (lines 114-18,...

...24. This line and the following are badly misquoted from John Milton's Lycidas, 11. 123ff. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swol'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Presumably, O'Neill...

...the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return...

...Robert Palmer Howard,37 of Mon30. John Milton, "Lycidas," line 125. The original reads: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. 31. T. Wesley Mills (1847-1915): Canadian physiologist and veterinarian. He was a classmate of Osler's...