Read The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems Online
Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
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The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (217 page)
7667
pushed, driven
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7670
trained, habituated
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7671
interior, inward
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7672
exaggerations
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7674
counterbalanced
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7675
likely, natural
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7676
pressing, persistent
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7677
make public, proclaim
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7680
interpret as
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7681
unsettled, variable, fickle
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7682
(1) mind, (2) affection, love
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7683
his first wife: see lines 219–27, above
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7684
intended, planned
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7685
confinement
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7686
“that was sufficient/did it for me”
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7688
wholly, entirely
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7693
harsh, grim, bitter
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7694
forced, compelled
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7696
passion, appetite
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7697
irreconcilable
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7698
knowing that I had been
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7699
decides, ordains
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7700
worked, prevailed
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7701
officers of the executive government
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7702
swore, solemnly entreated
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7703
insisted, urged
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7704
communal, general
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7707
well-founded
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7708
common, widespread
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7709
considerations
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7710
prescribing, imposing
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7711
offensively
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7712
over, in preference to
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7713
frivolity, lack of serious thought
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7715
acknowledged, openly declared
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7716
the Philistines’
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7717
subject of a realm, citizen
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7718
thou mine = thou under my protection
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7720
goes by the worse = gets the worst of it
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7722
outbursts/volleys of sound (words)
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7723
spare, give, yield
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7724
occasion, opportunity
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7728
out of their houses
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7730
duty, function
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7731
up to, until
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7733
fits not = is not suitable
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7734
separated, disunited, estranged
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7736
devices, contrivances
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7737
nets and snares
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7739
“they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers” (Psalm 58:4–5)
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7744
finally, at last
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7745
affront, exult
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7746
displaying excessive affection/regard for one’s wife
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7747
complete, unqualified
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7749
explain, interpret
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7750
judging, criticizing
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7751
hold, reckon
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7752
inexorable, irreconcilable
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7753
pursuing, petitioning
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7754
bid (directed) to go (to leave)
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7758
recited, sung, narrated
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7759
higher than
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7760
ties, agreements
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7761
incense, perfume
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7762
Sisera, a Canaanite hostile to the Jews, fled their pursuit; Jael, wife of Sisera’s host, drove a nail through his head as he lay sleeping: see Judges 4, 5
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7764
is discontented
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7765
evident, obvious
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7766
receive, hold
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7767
find, light upon
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7768
consult upon
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7769
the “secret” referred to in line 384, above
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7770
best man at a wedding: Samson’s first wife was subsequently married to his former best man
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7771
neither would both wives have
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7772
destined, ruinous, deadly
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7773
for that = because
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7774
limited, very little
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7775
formed, created, produced
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7777
basis, inner/essential part
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7779
serious, calm
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7781
(1) sundering, separating, (2) clinging, adhering
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7783
disorderly, troubling
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7784
out of the right path
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7785
excessive fondness
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7788
joins/unites (with her virtue)
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7789
arbitrarily/absolutely authoritative
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7791
dread mixed with veneration
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7792
sever, quit
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7793
smile she = whether she smiles
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7794
frown, scowl
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7795
been involved in
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7796
hidden, secret, recondite
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7797
“the giant”
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7799
can guess/predict
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7800
magnificent, splendid
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7804
mischance, luck
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7805
see Deuteronomy 3:1–11
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7806
see Numbers 13:33
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7807
a race of giants dwelling east of the River Jordan: see Deuteronomy 2:10–11
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7808
see Genesis 14:5
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7809
unnatural, amazing, vast, monstrous
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7811
in camp: on a campaign
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7812
listed field: battlefield divided into lists (areas for jousting tournaments)
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7813
rumor, common talk
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7814
challenge to single combat
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7815
shackles, fetters
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