Half yet remaines unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible Diurnal Spheare; Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarce or mute, though fall'n on evil dayes, On evil dayes though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers
compast rouud, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East: still govern thou my Song, URANIA, and fit audience find, though few.
So when the
compast course of the vniuerse In sixe and thirtie thousand yeares is ronne, The bands of th'elements shall backe reuerse To their first discord, and be quite vndonne: The seedes, of which all things at first were bred, Shall in great Chaos wombe againe be hid.
I
compast hem a kynde cratte and kende hit hem deme, And amed hit in myn ordenaunce oddely dere, And dyght drwry therinne, doole alther-swettest; And the play ofparamores I portrayed myselven, And made therto a maner myriest of other.
I mean a
compast. I didne't know where the heck I was a goin'." Of course, Guthrie did find those relatives, although not actually living under a bridge, and they helped him generate his radio show.
The scribes were often confused (the 'Britons' are variously Bratons and even batains) and produced some strange forms, especially in proper names: Tennance becomes ternlance; Mandeville is Mandeloile; tempest (19619) is presumably for
compast; benches: drenches appears as binkes : drinkes.
and evil tongues; | In darkness, and with dangers
compast round' (PL vii.