See also:

• COMUS (from sd p.os, revel, or a company of revellers)

COMUS (from sd p.os, revel, or a See also:

• COMPANY

company of revellers)  , in the later See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology of the Greeks, the See also:

• GOD

god of festive mirth . In classic mythology the personification does not exist; but See also:

• COMUS (from sd p.os, revel, or a company of revellers)

Comus appears in the Eucoves, or Descriptions of Pictures of See also:

• PHILOSTRATUS

Philostratus, a writer of the 3rd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D. as a winged youth, slumbering in a See also:

• STANDING

standing attitude, his legs crossed, his countenance flushed with See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, his See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head—which is sunk upon his See also:

• BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast—crowned with dewy See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers, his See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand feebly grasping a See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear, his right an inverted See also:

• TORCH (O. Fr. torche, from Med. Lat. tortia, derived from tortus, twisted, torquere, to twist)

torch . See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• JONSON

Jonson introduces Comus, in his masque entitled See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

Pleasure reconciled to Virtue (1619), as the portly jovial See also:

• PATRON

patron of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good cheer, " First See also:

• FATHER

father of See also:

• SAUCE

sauce and deviser of jelly." In the Comus, sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria; Somnium (1608, and at See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, 1634), a moral See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory by a Dutch author, Hendrik See also:

• VAN

van der Putten, or Erycius Puteanus, the conception is more nearly akin to See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton's, and Comus is a being whose enticements are more disguised and delicate than those of Jonson's deity . But Milton's Comus is a creation of his own .