...Milton, at least, in his assumed character of L'Allegro, appears to adopt and sanction it, when he says : Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And, after him, Fuller, in his Worthies...

...what plays he might see, yet one of his pleasures is the performance of the legitimate drama : — " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." Returning to " the pensive man," it...

...some famous lines from 'L' Allegro' Milton contrasts the different styles of Jonson and Shakespeare: Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, faney's ehild, Warble his native wood-notes wild. (131-4) This is usually taken to endorse Jonson's...

...tales are done, we move to more literary creations: Such sights as youthful Poets dream On Summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon,...wild. And ever against eating Cares, Lap me in soft Lydian Airs, Married to immortal verse. (lines 119-37) The poem ends with a figure recurrent in the...

...On summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock59 be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble...wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,60 Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a...

...one's youth, a childish toy to be put away in adulthood. The scene then switches to the public theatre: Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native Wood-notes wild (11. 131-34) Although these lines seem irreproachable, given the choice of dramatists, the speaker's...

..."unlettered" writers, comes from Milton's "L'Allegro" and describes Shakespeare in contrast to Ben Jonson: "Then to the well-trod stage anon / If Jonson's learned...Fancy's child /Warble his native woodnotes wild." 2. "Prefatory Letter," PSO, pp. vii—viii. 3. Clearly a quotation; an exact reference has not been...

...kind of distinction in his poem 'L' Allegro': Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's leamed sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare fancy's child Warble his native wood-notes wild. Here 'leaming', and by implication the classical tradition, is given to Jonson, while Shakespeare is...

...'natural' Shakespeare as though the former is more cultivated while the latter is somehow more empirical: 'Then to the well-trod stage anon, / If Jonson's learned...fancy's child, / Warble his native wood-notes wild' (ll. 13 1^4). 14 Shakespeare espoused popular conventions of romance that informed so many comedies...

...Folio, but also applied the contrast between art and nature to Jonson and Shakespeare in 'L' Allegro': Then to the well-trod stage anon. If Jonson's learned...Shakespeare fancy's child. Warble his native woodnotes wild . . . But references to Shakespeare elsewhere in Puritan culture - and in the midseventeenth century...