The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (206 page)

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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel

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BOOK: The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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6048
songs
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6049
came on = advanced, came forward
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6050
serious, weighty, somber
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6051
negotiate, deal
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6052
Venus
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6053
forerunner
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6054
offered to
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6055
summon
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6056
god of marriage
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6057
before anything else?
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6058
fortunate
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6059
meeting
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6060
outcome
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6061
pieces of music
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6062
seized sympathetically
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6063
confess, acknowledge
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6064
propensity
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6065
foreshadows
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6066
goals, purposes
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6067
proper, fitting
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6068
compliance
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6069
smoothen
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6070
unusual, uncommon
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6071
merry
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6072
perfected
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6073
wag
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6074
snares, tricks
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6075
at large = fully, when God sends down the Flood
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6076
robbed, deprived
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6077
began
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6078
crooked, devious
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6079
spiritless, oppressive
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6080
course
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6081
man’s woe = wo-man
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6082
country, rustic
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6083
assembled
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6084
prowess, fame
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6085
assembling
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6086
choice [adjective]
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6087
oxen
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6088
cattle
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6089
with life = alive
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6090
[bisyllabic]
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6091
fighting
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6092
recently
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6093
bloody
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6094
battering rams
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6095
ladders
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6096
underground passages filled with gunpowder, which is then set off
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6097
spear
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6098
[bisyllabic]
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6099
at once
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6100
speeches
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6101
i.e., split into parties
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6102
Enoch: see Genesis 5:21–24
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6103
behavior, deportment
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6104
hooted at
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6105
perished, been destroyed
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6106
[trisyllabic]
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6107
shrink
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6108
join in marriage
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6109
muddled
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6110
strength, power
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6111
proclaimed
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6112
Enoch
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6113
therefore hated = who was therefore hated
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6114
assailed, invested, surrounded
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6115
alone
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6116
enveloped
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6117
fragrant
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6118
was given
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6119
eternal bliss
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6120
it came about, happened, occurred
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6121
surpassing
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6122
quarrels
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6123
Noah
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6124
wherever they
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6125
struggling
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6126
in large = a great deal
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6127
as if
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6128
i.e., the clouds’
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6129
violently, with full force
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6130
with great force [trisyllabic, second accented, “-uous” elided]
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6131
brought forth young
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6132
dwelled
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6133
not long before
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6134
boat
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6135
barely, with difficulty
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6136
dealt out, given
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6137
descend, fall
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6138
whom to warn = able to be warned
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6139
be destroyed
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6140
booty, spoil, plunder
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6141
gluttony
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6142
self-indulgence, capriciousness
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6143
[contest]
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6144
safely
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6145
moderation
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6146
tested
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6147
debased, degraded
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6148
corrupt
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6149
Noah
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6150
“good against that which is being done”
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6151
enticement
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6152
fashion
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6153
sinful
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6154
proclaiming
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6155
stubbornness
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6156
wreck, ruin
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6157
chosen
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6158
waterfalls
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6159
producing hornlike branches, as it divides and each branch flows on
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6160
destroyed
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6161
the Euphrates?
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6162
(1) the Perisan Gulf, in particular, or (2) the deep, in general
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6163
whales
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6164
seagulls
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6165
harsh screams [noun]
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6166
[trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6167
no sanctity
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6168
floating
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6169
as if
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6170
declined, dwindled
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6171
from
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6172
copiously
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6173
quick-moving
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6174
closed
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6175
channels
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6176
loud noise
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6177
aging
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6178
flowing water, here ebbing
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6179
at once
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6180
more trustworthy/steadfast/reliable
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6181
then again
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6182
fall, descend
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6183
calm, tranquil
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6184
quickly
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6185
rainbow
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6186
visible
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6187
banded, striped
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6188
signaling
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6189
at first
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6190
kept alive
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6191
extended, spread out
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6192
like
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6193
border, edge
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6194
cleverly
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6195
give up, resign, surrender
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6196
not long before
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6197
regretting
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6198
i.e., of having created man in the first place
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6199
corrupted
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6200
softens
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6201
obliterate
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6202
gray
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6203
leaves off, breaks away
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6204
determined, set
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6205
put forward
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6206
pleasing
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6207
weaken
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6208
origin, fountainhead
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