The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (218 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
7819
in order to be
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7820
destroyed by treachery
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7821
room (in a house)
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7822
close-banded = closely joined
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7823
get the better of
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7824
expedients, stratagems
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7827
body armor: rings (or plates) of metal covered with canvas, linen, or leather
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7828
upper-body armor
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7829
vant-brace: armor for forearms
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7831
glove of leather, covered with metal plates
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7832
weaver’s beam: wooden cylinder in a loom, on which, before weaving, the warp is wound (see 1 Samuel 7:7)
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7833
i.e., seven laminations (layers) of leather
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7834
rattling, noisy
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7836
stiff-spined
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7840
notices, cares about
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7841
acknowledges
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7844
coarse-growing, rank, rough
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7845
conquered, overcome
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7846
thine (your) people
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7847
indulgent, beneficent
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7850
tongue-valiant
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7852
well-known (and bad)
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7853
see Judges 14:10–19
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7854
booty, loot
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7855
indicated, proved
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7856
crafty intriguers
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7857
forced, compelled
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7859
engaged in, employed
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7860
secret enemies
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7861
holding no official position
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7863
gave up = surrendered
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7864
undertook, ventured, dared
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7866
familiar, well-known
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7867
i.e., revealing the secret of his strength to Dalila, who then cut off his hair
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7868
tricks, sophistries, evasions
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7871
for the third time, three times in succession
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7872
trivial, minor, unimportant
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7873
undertaking, business
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7874
little, slight, no great
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7876
examine, inspect, evaluate
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7877
comment on, carp about
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7878
Philistine god
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7879
unaccustomed
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7880
give in return, cause
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7881
front line of battle formations
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7882
offensive arrogance
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7883
is appropriate for
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7885
huge/massy frame
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7887
blow (of the hand)
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7888
frame, body
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7890
acts of bravado/defiance
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7892
unconcerned, indifferent, uncaring
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7895
common talk
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7896
publicly declare
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7897
the greatest
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7898
benefit, profit
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7900
pleasing, proper
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7901
overcome, vanquish
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7902
violent, truculent
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7904
zealous, assiduous
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7905
frenzied, furious
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7906
their deliverer
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7907
military stores/equipment
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7911
performs, fulfills, discharges
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7912
perplexed, confused, disordered
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7913
panicked, overwhelmed, astonished
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7914
act of worship, religious observance
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7915
moral strength/courage
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7918
deprived, stripped
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7919
in reserve, still to come
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7920
making his way
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7921
skillfully worked
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7922
at full speed
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7924
distinguish, mark out
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7925
pageants, parades, displays
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7926
standard, degree
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7928
strengthened, cheered (often by alcohol)
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7931
mimes, burlesque actors
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7934
afflict, strain, make miserable
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7936
worker at low/servile/hard/distasteful tasks
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7937
frolic, exercise
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7938
enjoined, commanded
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7939
formal decision
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7943
God’s favor
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7944
one pledged to abstinence
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7948
saying, maxim
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7950
relax rules, grant dispensations/permission
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7951
waking, stirring
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7952
incline toward, prepare
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7953
prognostication, prediction
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7954
obtain, invent, provide for
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7955
devices, usually but not necessarily mechanical
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7956
assault, attack
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7959
technical skill
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7963
take off, lay aside
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7968
arrogant, immoderate
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7969
guarantee, promise
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7970
round about, all around
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7971
quantity, degree
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