| Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell: (I.ii.376-402) Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. (Vi88-94)... | |
| Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 pages
...exquifite fong, in which his favourite and peculiar paftime is exprefTed. Where the bee fucks, there^Ofe-I, In a cowflip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls...do fly, After fun-fet, merrily ; Merrily, merrily, (hall I live now, Under the bloflbm that hangs on the bough. With what wildnefs of imagination, but... | |
| David Kazanjian - Social Science - 2003 - 336 pages
...invokes from The Tempest, which actually reads: "Where the bee sucks, there suck I, / In a cowslip's bell I lie; / There I couch when owls do cry. / On the bat's back I do fly / After summer merrily. / Merrily, merrily shall I live now, / Under the blossom that hangs on the bough" (act... | |
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