...Paradise Lost, but in his lengthy note on the most famous and contested interpretative crux in Lycidas: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (Lycidas, 128-31) After explaining the 'grim wolf by...

...church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...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 their...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and little said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more."...

...utter a jeremiad against prelarical wolves who abandon pastoral care and misappropriate church wealth: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (1l. 128-31) A headnote added to the 1645 edition guided...

...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed. But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk...

...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." (1:1794) Milton here employs the allegorical convention...

...this demonizing strategy against prelates, or "Blind Mouths!" whose unfortunate flock are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. . . . (125-2.9) The "grim Wolf" here is the Roman Catholic Church, whom Milton renders elsewhere as...

...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus;...

...Grate on their scrannel1 pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said:5 But that the two-handed engine6 at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more....

...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the door,...