...of his second wife, Katherine Woodcock: 32. CP, 35. 33./A&/..30. 34. Victoria Forde, op.cit., 159. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. 3i Bunting's equivalent for this, or rather the equivalent he puts into the mouth of modern man, is...

...in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1, v, 9-13 (c. 1603) 10 Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave . . . But O as to embrace me she enclin'd, 1 wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. John Milton,...

...Paradise Lost, the epic for which Milton had been preparing since the 1640s.-" HER FACE WAS VEILED Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...gave. Rescued from death by force though pale and tamt. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed tamt. Purification in the old Law did save, And such,...

...long had lost." by Eleanor G. Brown in Milton's Blindness (New SONNET XXIII* METHOUGHT I SAW . . . Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint,...

...refrains. Sonnrt i9 Methought 1 saw my late espoused saint0 Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,0 Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued...death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint,0 Purification in the old law did save,0 And such, as yet once more...

...off. If your taste in epigrams runs more to the high than to the low, consider Milton's "Sonnet 19": Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more...

...to spinning and weaving, while she draped herself in his lion-skin and played at wielding his club. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. Milton Besides harrowing the underworld and capturing the apples of immortality, Heracles had another...

...wife—dead within the first year of their wedlock, and dying in childbed. "Methought," it begins, "I saw my late espoused saint brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave;" and it ends with telling how she Came vested all in white, pure as her mind; Her face was veiled; yet...

...wife — dead within the first year of their wedlock, and dying in childbed. "Methought," it begins, "I saw my late espoused saint brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave;" and it ends with telling how she Came vested all in white, pure as her mind; Her face was veiled; yet...

...eye (OED I.3.a), can be a cultic term like "blemish": it is so used in Sonnet 23: "Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint. / Purification in the old Law did save" (5-6). Finally, the change made by Milton's nephew and editor, Edward Phillips, of "light" to "sight"...