"The Spectator" Crossword No. 157

BY ZENO

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Nak-All quotations are by Milton.

ACROSS 1, " Can this be hee, That heroin, that lienown'd,

. . .Samson ?

" God doth not . . .

Either males work or his own gifts : who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best." 11. fierce extremes, extremes by change more tierce, From Beds of raging Fire. to starve in . ." 14. rev. Strives for superiority. 15. In a cave.

18." Among the pleasant Villages and

- Farms Adjohed, from each thing met con- COW% delight, The smell of Grain, or . . . Grass, or 17. " the Fruit Of that Forbidden . . whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World," 18. rev. Loosely constructed play Milton would not have approved of !

20. -drennith, not as I oft am wont

of thee, Works of day past, or . . .'s next &mien, Bid of offence and trouble." 22. Around 24i down.

23, " by the rushy-fringed bank.

Where grows the 'Willow and the . dank, My sliding Chariot stays." 25. Vowels.

20.rev. In ss. 27. rev. " to epake tit' Apostate Angel,

though in pain, , aloud, but rackt with deep despair." Ilefore noon. 80. rev. "Thir Ministry perform'd, and race well run, Thir doctrine and thir story written left, They . • ." 81. In 16. 82. " Shephdrd Ifs my office . . To help ensnared chastity." 83. " Seen: I to thee sufficiently nossest Of happiness, or not ? who am alone From all Eternity, for . . . I know Second to nice or like, equal much less."

80. The one who said 21.

GIL ." Sporting the Lion ramp'd, and in his paw Dandl'd the Kid ; Bears, . . . Ounces, Pants Oanibol'd before them." • 40. ." Too well I see and rue the dire . That with ead.pverthrow and foul detest Bath lost us Hcav'n."

DOWN " What hoots it with . . . care To tend the homely slighted Shep- herd's trade,

' And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? "

2. ' All isnot lost ; the nneenquerab e And study of . . immortal hate, And courage never to submit or

. yield"

8. " lest he . . chide,

Both God exact day.lubour, light denied."

4. " Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his , ." b. " Not equal, as their sex not

equal d ; Fur contemplation bee and valour ferried, For softness Ace and sweet attrac- tive Grace."

8. "I come to pluck your . harsh and crude, And with fore'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year." 7.Imposture,

s. " him there they found

Squat like a Toad, close at the ear of . .

" perish rather, swallow'd up and lost

In the wide womb of unereated eight,

of settee and motion ? "

12. Ends of a cord, 13. U, real bad I (snag.).

14, •' that Stared Ethiope Queen that . .

To act her beauty's praise above The Sea Nymphs, and their powers offended."

19. " The savoury pulp they chew, and In the Still as they thirsted seven the brim- ming stream:"

21. " In argument with men a . . . ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause."

24. rev. " But let my . . . feet never fail To walk the studious Cloisters pale." 26. " Which when -Beelzebub perceiv'd, than whom, , except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect lie rose."

28. " Nothing is here for . . s, nothing to wall

Or knock the breast, ne weakness, no contempt."

34. 25.

35. See 25.

30. In 4.

87. 20.

38. In all our lives.