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��by Pompey had as son Herod, whose king-ship of Judea " barred the Messiah of his right."

Page 242, line 401. Appaid.

Appeased, satisfied.

Page 242, line 452.

It is not necessary to emphasize the second syllable of "triumphing." The reversal of ac- cent in the third foot by which a trochee is substituted for an iambus, breaks and acceler- ates the movement of the line consonantly with the sense.

Page 244, lines 539,540. The day of respiration.

Relief, as at the drawing of a deep breath after some constraint.

Page 244, lines 588, 589. Top of speculation.

In a double sense.

Page 245, line 635. Adust.

Parched, from Lat. adurere. to scorch.

Page 245, line 640. Subjected.

Of course literal, " lying beneath."

Page 247. PARADISE REGAINED.

Page 252. BOOK I.

Page 252, line 8. Thou spirit.

The same " Heavenly Muse " invoked at the beginning- of Paradise Lost.

Page 252, line 14. Wing full summed.

Full-plumaged ; cf. "summed their pens," Par. Lost, vii. 421.

Page 252, line 18. The great Proclaimer.

John the Baptist.

Page 252, line 43. Sad.

In the old sense, "sober, serious."

Page 253, lines 60-64. If ... by the head broken, be not intended, etc.

The meaning is : if the prophecy that the seed of Eve shall bruise the serpent's head, does not mean that our power over the earth and the air shall be entirely reft from us.

Page 253, line 87. Obtains.

Holds.

Page 253, lines 89-93. His first begot we know.

Satan is ignorant of the identity of the Son of God in Heaven and the Messiah on earth.

Page 254, line 137. Then told'st.

A bold omission of the subject, unless " then " is a misprint.

Page 254, lines 201-208. When I was yet a child, etc.

These lines have been pointed out as de- scribing Milton's own boyhood and adolescence.

Page 255, line 255. Just Simeon and prophetic Anna.

See Luke ii. 25-39.

Page 256, line 302. Such solitude before choicest society.

A line of peculiar metre, a trochee being sub- stituted for an iambus in the fourth foot, and two extrametrical short syllables added at the end. Such departures from the monotony of regular structure, more frequent in Paradise Regained than in Paradise Lost, mark the transition to the elaborate rhythmic system of Samson Agonistes.

Page 256, line 333.

The word " aught " is according to present

��usage redundant ; aught what happens what- ever happens.

Page 256, line 350. Who fed our fathers here with manna.

Not literally in the desert where Christ now is ; " here " is to be taken generically.

Page 257, lines 368-370.

Job i. 6.

Page 257, lines 371-375.

And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead ? . . . And there came forth a spirit. . . and he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also. 1 Kings xxii. 21, 22.

Page 257, line 428. A liar in four hundred mouths.

I. e. the four hundred false prophets who counselled Ahab to give battle at Ramoth- gilead.

Page 259. BOOK II.

Page 259, line 16. The great Thisbite.

Elijah, native of the town of Thisbe in Gilead.

Page 259, lines 87-91. Trouble, as old Simeon foretold.

An incident of the Presentation in the Tem- ple. Luke ii. 34, 35.

Page 260, line 125. So may we hold.

" So " merely enforces the exclamatory wish ; not to be taken adverbially.

Page 260, line 131. Tasted him.

Tried him ; cf. French " tSter," to touch.

Page 261, lines 178-191.

" The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose." Gen. vi. 2. Milton calls them "false titled on the ground that they were the followers of Satan, roaming the earth as heathen deities. The names which follow mark some amours famous in the classi- I cal mythologies.

Page 261, line 196. Pellean conqueror^.

Alexander the Great, born at Pella in Mace-
 * donia.

Page 261, line 199. He surnamed of Africa.

Scipio Africanus, who restored a Spanish girl, who had fallen into his hands, to her family.

Page 261, line 217. Seated as on the top of i Virtue's Hill.

"Seated " refers grammatically to the noun (or pronoun) latent in the possessive "his" in I the preceding line.

Page 262, lines 266-276.

See the seventeenth and nineteenth chapters of Kings.

Page 262, lines 306-311. Others of some note, ! etc.

The desert where Hagar wandered with Ish- i mael (Nebaioth, Ishmael's son, is named ap- parently by oversight), and to which Elijah the ! Thisbite (Thebez for Thisbe) retired, is here confused with the great desert farther south. Exactness of geography is unimportant for the poet's purpose.

Page 263, line 344. Grisamber-steamed.

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