441 Dan Moist, Wet.

443 Clarion

These are Small Shrill Trumpets. I. 532.

448 Ev'ning and Morn Solemniz'd the Fifth day.

the Sixt, and of Creation Laft arofe

with Ev'ning Harps and Mattin,

but why is it faid the Day Arose with Ev'ning as well as Morning Harps? They were Both, as Celebrating both One and the Other in all the preceding Days.

451

Fowl Living

'tis Strange that So many Editions have left This Un-corrected 'till of Late, 'tis most Manifeftly wrong. The Fowl were Created the Day before: But as v. 388 the Fish are call'd Living Souls; and in the Scripture the Term us'd is Living Creature inftead of what is Here, it must be Soul Living; Beafts, Infects, Worms; Thefe, with Man, were the Work of This Day. When v. 388, 'tis faid the Waters Generated Living Soul, 'tis in Oppofition to What had been done juft before, Vaftly Great and Noble Creatures, and Great for their Ufe to Man had been Created, but they were Inanimate; the Waters, and the Air were to produce what had Life, Living Soul,

as Now the Earth was alfo to bring Animals, Soul Living in Her Kind.

457 his Laire, or Layer

his Bed, or place of reft. the Word is ftill us'd when we fay of things put one on Another there is a Laire or Layer of This and That. So of the Strata, or Kinds of Earth often seen, there is a Layer of Earth, Another of Chalk, &c.

Ibid.

Wonns

is wont to be, inhabits, dwells.

458

Brake

a Ferny, Shrubby place. V. 326.

461 Thofe Rare and Solitary,

Thofe, that is, the Wild Beasts, v. 457 ; Rare, not in any great Number; and by Themselves, only One Male and Female.

Ibid.

Thefe in Flocks

Pafturing at Once and in Broad Herds up Sprung.

Thefe, the Tame Cattle Sprung up in Whole Flocks and Herds; and at Once, not by Degrees as the Other Sort, v. 464, &c. and they Rofe fo Suddenly Pafturing, Feeding too, as is Natural to Thofe Animals. So the Angel V. 275 not Only Alighted, but return'd to his proper

proper Shape at Once. the fame Phrase fee again 475.

463 the Gray Clods now Calv'd; Now Half appear'd

the Tawny Lyon

Calv'd, Brought forth, as Job xxxix. 1. Pfal. xxix. 9. Milton Imagines the Beafts to rife out of the Earth ready Form'd. This is the Same Thought as Raffael had who has Thus painted this Subject in the Vatican. Spenfer has had the Same Imagination Fairy Qu. I. I. 21. but these have had it from the Ancients, Ovid. Diod. Sic. &c.

466

Rampant shakes his Brinded Main; Rampant. See the Note on IV. 343. Brinded, inclining to Grey.

Ibid.

the Ounce,

Lynx a Creature Fierce, and Exceeding SharpSighted.

467 the Libbard (or Leopard) and the Tyger All Thefe, as the Lion firft Specify'd, are of the Cat-Kind.

475

whatever Creeps the Ground Inject or Worm, Thofe wav'd their Limber Fans for Wings, it may feem ftrange that Milton reckons the Fly-kind amongst the Creeping things; 'tis

not Expressly faid when They were Created; Creeping things are put into This Day's work by Mofes, and Flyes may be alfo faid to Creep, as Walking fo like Creeping, fo Near what they walk upon. They could not have been fo Properly plac'd as Here, and ought to be Specify'd. Their Fanns. See the Note on

II. 927.

477

and Smalleft Lineaments Exact their very Small Parts are as Exactly made, as Carefully Form'd as thofe of Larger Animals; and being So Little have therefore a Wonderful Neat Beauty.

478 in all the Liveries Dect of Summers Pride with Spots of Gold and Purple, Azure and

Green:

the Senfe of the Whole period is This, They Dect their Neat, Little Lineaments in all their Summer's Pride with Gold, Purple, Blue and Green. other Colours are Underftood, as Red, Browns of all Kinds, &c. we have given the Whole Paffage pointed as in the First Editions, because it is a Beautyful One, but (as many others) has been Confounded by being Mispointed Since.

480 Thefe as a Line their Long Dimenfion drew, Streaking the Ground with Sinuous Trace; Thefe, the Worm-kind, mark'd the Ground with their Winding Track.

486 in Small room Large Heart enclos'd,

Pattern of Just Equallity

Milton could not forbear on Occafion to fhow his Principles of Government, so XI. 697 XII. 64. the Bees are faid to have a King; the Pifmires, Ants, or Emmets to be Republicans, Prov. vi. 7, 8.

490 The Female Bee that feeds her Husband

Drone
Deliciously,

Befides what has been faid by Virgil and Pliny &c. among the Ancients, Butler, Warder, &c. Moderns, a late Anonymous Writer (faid to be the Abbé Pluche, le Spectacle de la Nature) gives a very Curious Account of this Matter. that the Common Bee is neither Male nor Female; but that there is in every Hive One Larger than the reft which is the Queen of the Hive, and who is alfo to Propagate by the help of the Drones, who have no other Bufinefs and are Expell'd by Violence after the Season is over, and who Probably Perish by Hunger, Of Thefe Drones there are about 100 in a Hive of feven or eight thousand Bees, and more in Proportion to a Larger Hive. the Queen is Mother of near 20,000 in One Summer.

497 And Hairie Main Terrific,

Virg. -Jubeq. Sanguinea exuperant undas. See Val. Flac. VIII. 88, & Callimach. Hym. Del. 92.