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422 Honour.

Title; the Other Sence of the Word is included in Glory and Renown. Splendour with Admiration, and This Spread abroad and continu'd to Future times.

449 Riven Arms.

Rent, Hack'd. the Poet Imagines These of a Lefs Pure Subftance than the Angels Themfelves.

Ibid. Havoc.

Destruction. II. 1009. to cut it all to pieces.

455 Impaffive.

Incapable of Suffering.

467

to Me Deferves.

to Me, in My Opinion, it Seems to Me he Deferves.

468 no less than for Deliverance what we Owe Nifroc is fpeaking [v. 447.] he had Complimented Sathan (v.451) with the Title of Deliverer; Here he Ventures to say that Whoever could Invent the New Engine of War would be Equal to Him in His Estimation. Milton has taken Care that This Deliverer fhould also have This Merit, and be without a Competitor; Sathan is both One and t'other as it follows Immediately.

the

the Sence of the whole Speech in Short is "That 'tis to no purpose Subjected to Pain to Contend with Those who are Not. an "Absence of Pleafure may be Born, but Pain, especially when Exceffive, is Intol"lerable. a Remedy to This Whoever finds

is the Deliverer.

470 Sathan, telling them his Invention, "Gun-powder, Encourages them.

477

from Whence they grow Deep under ground, Materials Dark and Crude They, the Plants, Fruits, Flowers, &c. grow from Dark and Crude Materials Underneath.

479 Spume.

Froth, Foam, as explain'd v. 512.

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though Milton Generally applyes this Term to the Chaos, Here it only Signifies as v. 478, and as oppos'd to the Surface 472.

483

Infernal Flame.

it may appear Strange that the Celestial Soil fhould be productive of Infernal Fire. but 'tis call'd fo in Oppofition to What was in Heaven, the Thunderbolts, and Alike Pernicious. tho' these Evil Spirits had not yet Experienc'd Hell they had Heard of it. VI. 183. 276. 291.

484. Which into Hollow, &c.

Which; that is, the Materials 478. These (482) the Deep fhall yield, which into Hollow Engins ramm'd, with touch of Fire shall fend forth.

496

Inlighten'd

their Drooping Chear

gave a little Glimmering of Joy to their Gloomy Sinking Countenances.

514 Concocted and Adufted

Mingled, Digefted, and Dry'd.

516 Part bidd'n Veins digg'd up (nor bath This Earth

Entrails Unlike) of Mineral and Stone, whereof to Found their Engins and their Balls

of Miffive Ruin;

We have given this Period Intire as in the Best Editions because it has been Corrupted and Miftook Latterly.

That there ever were Stone Cannon or Mortars we cannot learn, nor even that 'tis poffible on Earth. but we know a BurningGlafs will Melt Flint. and though Stone, Any we are acquainted with, is Improper to make Cannon of, the Minerals Now spoken of, if not Unlike Ours, if Analogous to them, are not the Same: the Minerals Here, as well as the Fire May have, they Must be Suppos'd

to

to have Powers Unknown to Us. the Poet to Help our Conceptions, as the Angel V. 571 Likens Things Above Us to what we find Below, as the Holy Scripture alfo does; 'tis Our Affair Not to Debase these Sublime things by bringing them Upon a Level with This World, but Always to keep Aloft as well as We can, and only just in Sight of what our Eyes are Accustom'd to and can Look Steadily upon; Still we must remember we are in a Superiour Region. Hee that Reads Milton muft Always put Himself in This Situation, and Support Himself There; if he perceives Himfelf Sinking towards This Earth let him Ufe his Poetick Wings with Fresh Alacrity. This is Neceffary Throughout the Whole Work, but in No part of it More than in This Sixth Book.

Miffive Ruin. Ruin Sent, Convey'd to a Distant Place. the Effect for the Cause, the Mischief inftead of the Bullet.

519 Incentive. apt to give Fire.

520 Pernicious.

This Word is here to be understood in the Common Sence Mifchievous, and as another Epithet to Reed, not as deriv'd from the Latin Pernix Swift, for That Circumstance is exprefs'd immediately after with One Touch to fire. Pernicious, to give Fire, or Influence.

'tis a Greek Conftruction, and Latin, as Ho

race Od. I. 12, II.

Blandum & auritas fidibus canoris

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527 Panoplie.

Compleat Armour. Such as when the War riour is Arm'd at All Points. A Greek Word.

528 Dawning Hills.

Beautyfully Poetical! the Dawn appear'd over the Hills fo that They Seem'd to bring the Rifing Day.

532 in Motion or in Alt

Marching, or Stopping, Approaching, Retreating, or Halting, XI. 210.

539

So Thick a Cloud.

So Large a Body. 'tis an Ancient Phrafe on This occafion. Livy, L. V. Equitum pedi tumque Nubes. See alfo Il. IV. 274. and Milton himself Par. Reg. III. 326. Nor wan ted Clouds of Foot.

541 Sad Refolution and Secure.

Sullen, Determin'd, and Prefumptuous.

543 Gripe Faft.

Expreffes Holding with the Hand's Utmoft Strength.

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