John Milton Ease Quotations

Towered cities please us then / And the busy hum of men.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

Since first this subject for heroic song / Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late.