...send a glistering guardian if need were To keep my life and honour unassailed. 220 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? 1 did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam...

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...to this proverb is in John Milton's poem Comus (1634), one of his earliest works: "Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth her silver lining on the night?" (221). In his essay entitled "Milton's Use of Lunar Imagery in Paradise Lost" in the third volume,...

...glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed. • • • Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. I cannot hallo...

...meteorological confirmation for her suddenly confident talk. "Was I deceiv'd," she asks, looking skyward, "or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night? / I did not err," she Citations from John Milton, Poems, etc. upon Several Occasions (London, 1673), parenthesized by...

...vengeance, Would send a glist'ring Guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honor unassail'd. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted Grove. (213-25, emphasis...