499 551 and Patiently Attend My Diffolution. These words were not in the First Edition, but Added by Milton in the Second; to Him between Michael, and repli'd was left out Then for the Verfe fake. 553 Nor Love thy Life, nor Hate; but what thou Liv'ft Live Well, how Long or Short Permit to Heav'n: a Precept worthy of an Angel. the Great Affair is to Live Well, not only Unblameably, Avoiding Sin, but Exemplarily. and for your Own Sake making the Most and Beft of the Share of Life Allotted you, whatever that be, by Vertue, the most Important Oeconomy; for the reft welcome be the Will of God. 561 Chords from a Greek Word which Signifies a Gut, of which the Strings of Mufical Inftruments are Chiefly made. Tranfverfe, Athwart, both ways. Fugue, from Fuga, Flight. a Fugue is a Correfpondency of Parts in Mufick Answering in the Same Notes Above and Below, and therefore Here faid to be Refonant, Sounding Again. How full of Strong Description is This Single line! 573 Fufil or Grav'n in Mettle. Caft, or Wrought. 576 Guise from Guifa (Ital.) a Manner, by their Manner, by their Appearance. 578 to Worship God Aright, and know his Works not Hid, nor those things Laft which might preferve Freedom and Peace to Men: These Just Men were Nobly Employ'd in the Study of True Religion, Natural Philosophy, and the Good Government of Society. the First Edition has Loft inftead of Last, but corrected in the Errata. 582 a Beavie a Company. See Spenf. II. 9. 34. and the Shep. Cal. Apr. 587 Faft Caught Sa So 'tis in the two Authentick Editions. Cor rupted Afterwards to First. 588 th' Eevning Sar Love's Harbinger See Our Note on VIII. 519. 603 judge not what is best by Pleasure, that is, Senfual Pleasure, Such as That of which the Poet had been speaking, and as oppos'd to what is Holy and Pure, and which is to be found in a Consciousness of Conformity with God; the most Supream Pleasure Man is Capable of; and He is Capable of it in a High Degree, even in This Life. Pleasure Abfolutely confider'd is the Sole Motive to All our Voluntary Actions; or in other Words, our Own Happiness is our First Principle, and Infeparable from our Existence." 614 for that fair Female troop the Construction is; it was faid in the preceding Verse the Men spoken of should Beget a Beauteous Offfpring; it now follows, For to the Women, described in line 615, and so on 'till 621, that Sober Race of Men fhall yield up all their Vertue, &c. What is meant by a Beauteous Offfpring is feen v. 686 compar'd with 642. Here is Exhibited Another moft Ufeful Rule in the Conduct of Life. Let not Sen Kk 3. fuality fuality Byafs the Judgment, Created to a Nobler End, as v. 605. 619 Appetence from Appetentia (Lat.) Luft, Defire, 626 (Ere long to Swim at Large) 642 Emprize. 651 which makes a Bloody Fray; the First Edition fays Tacks, as II. XVIII. 531, 532. the Place which Milton has Copy'd here. whether the Alteration was by Mistake or Direction is Uncertain; to Tack a Fray is no Other than what is Commonly faid, to join Battle, 654 Enfanguin'd Bloody, Stain'd with Blood. 660 Scepter'd Haralds the Heraulds among the Ancients carry'd Scepters as the Chief Enfign of their Office. See the Note on I. 752. 661 to Council in the Citie Gates: the place where Such Affairs were Anciently Transacted; Where Affemblies were usually held, as P. cxxvii, 5. Zech. viii. 16. 665 of Middle age one rifing, eminent Enoch faid to be of Middle-age, because he was Tranflated when he was but 365 Years Old; a Middle Age Then. Gen. V. 23. See v. 700, &c. 694 and for Glorie done of Triumph, to be ftil'd Great Conquerors, Atchiev'd only for the Glory of Triumphing, and to be Men of Renown. All is done, not from a Noble Principle, but Vanity and Oftentation, as v. 790, &c. 713 the Brazen Throat of War. the Trumpet. 725 in Prison I Pet. iii. 20. 743 Like a Dark Ceeling Stood; Ceeling may be thought too Mean a Word in Poetry, but Milton had a View to its Derivation from Cælum (Lat.) Ciélo (Ital.) Hea ven. Kk 4 746 |