in il penseroso john milton describes how the poem's melancholy speaker prefers gentle and soothing dreams of sleep to the harsh light ofday. which who sets of lines in this excerpt from l'allegro contrast with those ideas
"And Pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream" and "Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild."
