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Ibis honestus,

Postquam egregiam tu quoque sortem

Nactus abis, dextri prece sollicitatus amici.
Illic legeris inter alta nomina

Authorum, Graiæ simul et Latinæ

Antiqua gentis lumina et verum decus.

EPODOS.

Vos tandem haud vacui mei labores,
Quicquid hoc sterile fudit ingenium,
Jam serò placidam sperare jubeo

Perfunctam invidiâ requiem, sedesque beatas
Quas bonus Hermes

Et tutela dabit solers Roüsî,

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Quò neque lingua procax vulgi penetrabit, atque longè

Turba legentûm prava facesset;

At ultimi nepotes

Et cordatior ætas

Judicia rebus æquiora forsitan

Adhibebit integro sinu.

Tum, livore sepulto,

Si quid meremur sana posteritas sciet,

Roüsio favente.

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21. Cybele, one of the deities of Asia. She was represented as wearing a crown designed like a battlement. 51. Thunder, here used for "lightning." 65. i.e., The Muses sing to the Fates. The symbolism here is gathered from the final passages of Plato's Republic.

97. Ladon, like Alpheus, was a river in Arcadia, and Lycaeus was a mountain in the same region. Cyllene was another mountain on the limit of Arcadia. It was supposed that Pan was born on Lycaeus, and Hermes on Cyllene. Erymanth and Maenalus are also Arcadiar mountains.

106. Syrinx was a nymph whom Pan pursued. She was changed into a reed, and Pan, plucking the reed, formed it into a flute.

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SONNETS.

460. This sonnet was written after the Battle of Edgehill, when Charles was marching upon London.

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II. Alexander, when he was about to destroy Thebes, ordered that the house of Pindar should be left untouched, to show his reverence for the poet. Emathian Macedonian.

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461. Lady Margaret Ley was daughter of Sir James Ley, afterwards Earl of Marlborough.

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5. The parliament was dissolved by Charles on March 10, 1629. 8. The old man eloquent was Isocrates, who starved himself to death for shame after the defeat of Chaeronea.

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461. Sonnet VI. Milton's Tetrachordon was a treatise dealing with divorce, expounding the scriptural passages treating of marriage. He wrote it at the time when he was thinking of separating from his first wife, who had left him.

462. Sonnet VIII. Henry Lawes of Salisbury set music to many of the poems of Waller and Carew, and composed royal masques and the coronation anthem of Charles II.

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139. nice, here used in its original sense of "dainty" or "fastidious."

262. home-felt, i.e., felt very closely; felt at heart.

293. swinkt, weary.

301. plighted, plaited; folded. 327. warranted, protected.

341. The allusion is to the legend that Calisto, daughter of the King of Arcadia, was changed into the constellation of the Greater Bear, and Arcas, her son, into that of the Lesser Bear.

367. unprincipl'd, uninstructed. 380. All to, i.e., altogether; completely. 393. The Hesperian apples, guarded by the

maidens called the Hesperides, were presented to Hera on her marriage by Ge, or the Earth. Hercules was given the task of securing them as one of his labours. 430. unbleach't, "fearless," because without any touch of pallor.

531. croft, an enclosed field adjoining a farm-house.

607. purchase, the thing he has stolen. 675. Nepenthes, a drug which banishes care. Helen poured it into the cup of her husband Menelaus. The wife of Thone, Polydamna. 707. budge, lambskin wool.

708. The allusion is to the tub of Diogenes. 719. hutcht, stored up.

760. bolt, sift.

791. i.e., sophistries which dazzle the eye.

797. brute, insensate.

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15. the sacred well, i.e., the Pierían spring.

36. Masson identifies Damoetas with Chappell, the tutor of Christ's.

40. gadding, straying; wandering. 66. meditate, practise.

96. Hippotades, i.e., Eolus, son of Hippotes.

99. Panope, one of the Nereids. 103. i.e., of course, the river Cam. 124. scrannel, meagre; thin. 142. rathe, early.

158. monstrous world, i.e., world of mon

sters.

186. uncouth, unknown.

PARADISE LOST.

Book I.

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14. middle. The word here means "of middle class;" mean. 15. Aonia in Boeotia, the region frequented by the Muses.

56. bale, sorrow; grief. 107. study, toil; endeavour. 117. empyreal, fiery. 186. afflicted, defeated.

232. Pelorus, the northern point of Sicily. 266. oblivious, that causes forgetfulness. 305. Orion. The constellation of Orion is supposed, at its autumnal setting, to cause stormy weather. 353. Rhene, i.e., the Rhine.

391. affrail, is here used in its proper sense of "confront."

460. grunsel, threshold.

548. serried, set close together.

580. Uther's son, i.e., King Arthur of Britain.

585. Biserta, a Tunisian town.

609. amerc't, punished by the infliction of a fine.

690. admire, wonder at.

694. Babel is here explained as referring to the Temple of Belus in Babylon. 717. Fretted, is here used in the sense of "adorned."

797. frequent, many in number; crowded.

BOOK II.

2. Ormus was one of the islands in the Persian Gulf.

73. drench, a draught drunk. 306. Atlas was the giant who was supposed to carry the earth on his shoulders. 330. determin'd, i.e., "brought to a determination; ""ended.'

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90. assay, attempt.

93. glozing, deceitful.

129. suggestion, temptation.

255. maugre, in spite of. French malgre. 328. doom, judgment.

438. Sericana, the country between Imaus and China.

456. unkindly, contrary to nature. 470. Empedocles, desiring an immortality

of fame, threw himself into Etna, in the hope that he would be supposed to have been translated into godhead. But the volcano threw up his sandals, and thus revealed his suicide.

495. Limbo, the region on the border of

Hell, where the spirits of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ were to await their resurrection.

535. Paneas, Cæsarea Philippi.

602. i.e., make quicksilver solid and in

active.

643. succinct, belted.

Book IV.

11. wreak, avenge.

50. sdein'd, disdained.

123. coucht, coupled with.

126. Assyrian mount, i.e., Niphates.

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