The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (198 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
4849
prescribe, direct
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4851
(1) attend to, take care of, (2) remind
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4852
remain, exist
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4853
outwardly respectable but in fact not
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4856
if you would
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4857
attest, demonstrate
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4858
more certain/confident
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4859
though still
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4860
i.e., Eve has the last word
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4861
mentioned, noticed in passing
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4862
inclined, determined
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4863
a mountain nymph
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4864
a tree nymph
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4866
deportment, manner
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4867
skill [noun]
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4868
coarse, inelegant
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4870
goddess of flocks and herds
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4871
goddess of fruit
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4872
god of the orchards and fruit, husband of Pomona
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4873
Ceres/Demeter, goddess of Nature’s generative power
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4874
not maternal/the mother of
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4876
promised, pledged
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4877
ask him to come to
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4878
luckless, unfortunate
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4879
anticipated
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4880
wicked, wrong, stubborn
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4881
bitter grudge
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4883
chance, luck, fortune
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4884
cover, overhang, shelter
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4888
imaginary, fabled
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4890
for whom, and in whose honor, “gardens of Adonis” were planted
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4891
king of the Phaeacians, in Scheria
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4893
mythical, fabled
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4896
amorous play
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4897
see 1 Kings 3:1; Solomon’s wife is not named
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4898
marveled at
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4899
confined, shut up
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4900
injure, trouble
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4901
tedded grass = grass spread out for drying
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4903
place where milk and cream are stored, butter and cheese are made
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4904
for her = on her account
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4906
hidden place
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4907
restrained/suppressed/controlled by awe
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4908
pillage, robbery [noun]
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4909
deprived, robbed
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4911
withdrawn, absent in mind
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4912
dully, stupefiedly
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4913
(1) in compensation, (2) joyously, welcoming
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4914
stirs, rouses
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4915
diverge/depart from
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4916
opportunity
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4919
exalted, eminent
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4920
unformidable, to be dreaded
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4926
zigzag, wavy
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4928
spirals? (spires = stems, stalks)
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4929
moved gently
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4931
transformed into serpents
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4932
Hermione/Harmonia = daughter of Ares/Mars and Aphrodite/Venus; Cadmus’ wife [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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4933
founder and king of Thebes; he and his wife were both turned into snakes by Zeus
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4934
Aesculapius, god of healing, portrayed as a serpent at his temple in Epidaurus, in Argos, Greece
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4935
Ammonian Jove = Egyptian/African Jove, supposed to be the biological father of Alexander the Great, having slept with Olympias, wife of Philip of Macedonia, in the form of a serpent
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4936
Capitoline (Jove) = Roman Jove, supposed to have fathered Scipio Africanus
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4939
at an angle, indirect
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4940
a way to approach [second syllable accented]
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4941
cape, promontory
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4942
crooked, twisting
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4943
extravagant
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4944
ring, band, circle
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4946
obedient [bisyllabic, first accented, “-eous” elided]
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4947
herd disguised = Odysseus/Ulysses’ men, turned by Circe into swine
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4948
like an organ or other similar instrument
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4949
thrust, force
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4952
majestic, commanding
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4956
veiled with specious comments
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4957
prelude, preface, introduction
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4958
uttered, gave forth
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4959
(1) hesitate, (2) disagree about
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4960
capable of speech
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4962
a marvel, extraordinary event
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4965
snakes were thought to improve their eyesight by rubbing their eyes on fennel
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4966
snakes were reputed to suck milk from sheep and goats
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4967
are engaged in
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4968
tempting, charming
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4970
feeding ground
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4971
was able to
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4973
kept, confined
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4976
mistress, woman of rank and power
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4977
having a Spirit in his body
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4978
power, quality
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4979
demonstrated, tested, learned about
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4981
that which is born of Nature, Nature’s offspring
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4982
a flat = level ground
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4983
close, near
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4984
guidance [second syllable accented]
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4985
composed, made [second syllable accented]
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4988
a shaking movement
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4989
accompanies
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4990
i.e., the order forbidding that its fruit be eaten
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4991
useless, wasted
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