colour when fit for Fuel whence our Sword the Rind of Bacon of its blackness Most admirable and excellent are these Episodes which here begin and adorn our Author's Poem to the end surpassing all those tedious Stories and the vain-glorious Boastings of the Homeric Heroes and Virgil's artful Enumeration of the Roman Conquerors down to Augusius Caesar and the bemoan'd Marcellus AEn 6. as much as a Relation of what was to come to pass from the beginning of the World to Adam and all Mankind to the end of it and in order to a better taken out of Sacred Story must excel any particular or Humane History whatever V. 436. Uncull'd Some green and others ripe not pick'd and cull'd Uncull'd unchosen of Cueiller Fr. Colligere Lat. to gather thence to pick and choose V. 437. The Firstlings of his Flock Lambs Gen. 4. 4. according to God's Precept Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits likewise thou shalt do with thine oxen and thy sheep seven days it shall be with its dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me Exod. 22. v. 29 30. Choicest and best if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offering if he offer it of the herd whether it be male or female be shall offer it without blemish before the Lord Levit. 3. 1. V. 439. The Inwards and their Fat According to Levit. 3. 3 4. V. 442. Consum'd with nimble glance The Lord had respect to Abel and to his Offering says Moses in the Holy Record Gen. 4. 4. which all the Fathers interpret to have been manifested by Fire coming down from Heaven and consuming his Sacrifice the same Sign signalized the offering of Aaron and God's acceptance thereof And there came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt-offering upon the altar and the fat which Moses styles The glory of the Lord appearing to the people Levit. 9. 23 34. In the same manner was Gideon's Sacrifice accepted Judg. 6. 21. Thus David was of God answered by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering 1 Chron. 21. 26. And Salomon 2 Chron. 7. 1. Elijah also received the same Miraculous Approbation 1 King 18. 38. Ibid. And grateful Steam An offering made by fire of a sweet savour to the Lord Levit. 1. v. 9 13 17. and frequently so express'd in Scripture V. 443. For his was not sincere Cain's Sacrifice was left untouch'd by the Heavenly Fire and therefore unaccepted because not offer'd in Truth and sincerity of Heart for God had respect unto Abel and then to his Sacrifice Gen. 4. 4. Sincere Sincerus Lat. Pure Upright V. 445. Smote him into the Midriff with a Stone Our Author has followed the most probable Opinion that Cain killed his Brother with a blow on the Breast with a great Stone that beat out Life that beat the Breath out of his Body as they talk'd Gen. 4. 8. as they were in Discourse about the success of their Sacrifice Abel maintain'd God's Omniscience and Omnipresence the Rewards and Punishments of good and bad Actions both in this Life and that everlasting one in the other World which introduced a Dispute of the Immortality of the Soul and its eternal State whereupon careless and unbelieving Cain enraged at his Brother 's grave Admonitions slew his innocent Adviser and sent him to experiment the Truth of his Pious Assertions as the Jerusal Targum guesses Cain was of that wicked one who was a Murderer from the beginning John 8. 44. and slew his brother because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous 1 John 3. 12. V. 447. With gushing Blood effus'd Poured out his Blood and Soul together Undantique animum diffudit in arva cruore Purpuream vomit ille animam AEn 9. Whatsoever the deadly Instrument was with which Cain slew his Brother his Death was most certainly attended with Effusion of his Blood that being mention'd To cry unto the Lord from the ground Gen. 4. 10. Remembred also by our Saviour Matth. 23. 35. Effus'd Effusus Lat. poured out spilt V. 449. Dismay'd Bo. 1. v. 57. Nothing in the World could be more terrible than the first Night and the first dismal Scene of Death Mons. Balsac V. 457. From Heaven acceptance If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 7. V. 472. By Intemperance more By Excess in eating and drinking undermining and sapping Life by its Supports Pius Gula quam Gladius Saevior armis Luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem Juv. V. 476. Th' Inabstinence of Which Eve's want of Abstinence and command over her Sensual Appetite shall bring on her Descendents In and Abstinentia Lat. Forbearance V. 479. A Lazar house Lazaret Fr. Lazaretto It. an Hospital Maladies Maladie Fr. Sickness of Malum Lat. as Illness in the same sense of Ill. V. 481. Of gastly Spasm The Disorders of ugly Cramps and strange Distortions Spasms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Cramp of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to Contract of which one ill-favour'd kind is called Spasmus Cynicus when the Nostrils are so convulsed that the Teeth appear like those of a snarling Dog Ibid. Or racking Torture Or tormenting Pains that put the wretched Patient on the Rack Of Recken Ger. to stretch to extend Torture Tortura Lat. of Torquere Lat. to twist to torment V. 482. Qualms of Heart-sick Agony Fainting Fits that affect the Heart with Life's last struggle Qualms Swoonings Death's Sisters of Crealm Sax. Death a short one and sometimes absolute Agony Bo. 2. v. 861. Ibid. All feavorous kinds All sorts of Feavors Febris Lat. Convulsions Convulsiones Lat. à Convellendo from plucking the Nerves up together with painful twitches V. 483. Epilepsies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Falling-sickness Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to seize upon it being a seizure of such a sort as for the time deprives the Person afflicted there with both of Sense and Understanding Ibid. Fierce Catarrhs Salt sharp Rheums and furious Defluxions Catarrhs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Torrent of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to flow down as Rheums do from the Head to the Labouring Lungs V. 484. Intestine Stone and Ulcer The Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys often attended with putrifying Ulcers Intestine Intestinus Lat. inward Ulcer Ulcus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Sore full of Corruption Ibid. Cholic Pangs Pains of the Cholic twisting and tearing the Guts Cholic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one of the great thick Guts so called from whose fulness either with Wind or Filth those piercing Pains arise Pangs of Pain Paena Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 485. Daemoniac Phrenzie Raving Madness that looks like being possess'd by an Evil Spirit like those two possess'd with Devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce Matth. 8. 28. Daemoniac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Possess'd and thence furious Phrenzie Phrenesis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Madness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the
Perswaded our great Ancestors our Progenitors the first of Human Kind Adam and Eve Grand Fr. Great Parens Lat. Father V. 32. For one restraint For the Fruit of one Tree forbidden Lords of the World besides Words highly aggravating the Crime of our first Parents who having all the World at will could not undergo one restraint laid by their Mighty Maker on their Sensual Appetite as a tryal of their Homage and Obedience to him who had made 'em Lords of the World and all the Creatures in it for this prohibited Tree had probably nothing in it more alluring to sight or savour than many others left free and open to enjoyment Gen. 2. 16 and 17. V. 33. Who first seduc'd them Who first mislead them to the base Rebellion another Imitation of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seduco Lat. to lead astray to deceive Revolte Fr. Rebellion V. 34. Th' Infernal Serpent The Devil who entred into the Serpent and actuating his Organs deceiv'd our Mother Eve therefore call'd the Old Serpent Revel 12. 9. Moses in the Relation of Satan's Attempt takes no notice of the Arch Fiend but barely reports the Matter of Fact the Serpent entertaining and tempting Eve who discovered not the fly Seducer Gen. 3. 1. He relates but does not interpret So Gen. 18. 3. the Angels entertained by Abraham are call'd Men because such in outward appearance Moses Barcephas Chap. 27. de Parad. affirms it was not so much out of choice as meer necessity that Satan entred into the Serpent God permitting him to make use of no other Animal that Eve might be the more amazed and startled at so strange and bold an attempt from such a base and creeping Worm and with the greater horrour detest and tremble at the Temptation urged by so vile a Creature against the express Command of her Creator This Old Serpent imposed long after upon the Grecians and Romans in the same shape the later of which sending to Epidaurus for Esculapius a Grecian God to stop the Plague that had almost desolated their City the Serpent in the form he was there worship'd is said to have followed the Ambassadors of its own accord into the Ship that transported it to Rome where it was inshrined in a Temple built in the Isle of Tiberina Val. Max. l. 1. c. 6. Read the end of Metamorph. l. 15. Ibid. Infernal Infernalis Lat. Hellish Serpens Lat. à Serpendo from creeping Ibid. Whose Guile Whose Craft and Cunning an old word from the Fr. Guille deceive Originally from the Sax. Galian to bewitch or inchant V. 36. The Mother of Mankind Eve from whom the whole Race of Mankind derive their being Gen. 3. 20. V. 37. With all his Host With his whole Power with all his Army Host or Ost an old Fr. word for an Army from Hostis Lat. Enemy because prepared against such Of Rebel-Angels of Disobedient Spirits Angel of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Messenger V. 38. By whose Aid aspiring By whose Assistance endeavouring Aspiro Lat. to attempt V. 39. Above his Peers Above his Equals Pares Lat. for the Fr. Pairs and our Peers V. 42. Against the Monarchy of God Against the Sovereignty of Heaven the Absolute Government of God Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Supreme Power placed in a single Person from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality Rule V. 44. Th' Almighty Power God Almighty well express'd by the boundless and infinite Power he has to do whatever pleaseth him V. 45. From th' Etherial Skie From the Lofty Firmament out of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 belonging to the AEther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 used by the Poets for the Habitation of the Gods Cui Rex AEtherei breviter sic fatur Olympi AEn 10. V. 46. With hideous Ruine c. With terrible Destruction and everlasting Burnings threw headlong flaming out of Heaven down to endless Desolation Hideux Fr. frightful Ruina Lat. downfal Perditio Lat. Destruction Combustion Burning Lat. Combustio Whether Angels were Created before or with the World no Text of Holy Writ that I know does declare St. Austin affirms the later in l. 11. c. 32. de Civit. Dei But Theod. in 3 q. sup Gen. after he has endeavour'd to support the same Opinion concludes Illud porro scire necesse est omnia quaecunque Extant exceptâ Sanctâ Trinitate Naturam habere Creationi obnoxiam hoc autem concesso siquis Angelorum turbas ante Coelum Terram conditas esse di xerit non offendet verbum Pietatis That Angels were Created concurrently with the World the Lateran Council conceives because there could be no place of Destruction no Hell to hurl the offending Spirits into before there was any place in Nature Everlasting Fire being said to be prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. But our Narrow Capacities are in no proportion to the Compass of the Creation Of the Rebellion and Overthrow of these wicked Spirits in Heaven and of their Expulsion thence we read Revel 12. 7 8 9. whose defeat for their Pride and Disobedience most probably was not unrevealed to Adam by so terrible an Example to fright him from offending his Maker and to determine him more stedfast and unshaken in his Duty V. 48. In Adamantine Chains c. In Bonds Eternal and afflicting Fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made of Adamant so Hor. Figit Adamantinos dira necessitas Clavos a Stone so named of its hardness from the Privatives A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to tame as hardly to be cut by any Tool Thus Virgil describes one of the Gates of Hell Porta adversa ingens solidoque Adamante Columnae Ut vis nulla virûm non ipsi exscindere ferro Coelicolae valeant AEn l. 5. Durum vinclis Adamanta Lu. l. 6. Ibid Penal Poenalis Lat. painful torturing from Poena punishment V. 49. Omnipotent Almighty Lat. Omnipotens V. 50. Nine times the space A certain for an uncertain time is usual with the Poets who are fond of the Number Nine whether in respect to that of the Muses or as being the Square of the Ternary made famous by Pythagoras and by Aristot. and Plutar. styled the most excellent of all Numbers as containing in it self the beginning middle and end to Christians much more renown'd as expressive of the Mysterious Trinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which last Virg. imitates Jamque dies epulata novem Gensomnis AE l. 5. V. 52. In the Fiery Gulf In the Flaming Flood from the It. Golf◠and that perhaps from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sinus Maris or from the Lat. Gula because like a Whirlpool it swallows up every thing V. 55. Of lost Happiness According to the received Opinion that the Torments of the Damned consist in poena damni the loss of the Beatifick Vision of God in whose presence are pleasures for evermore as well as
Impious Evasion of those that say Accusandum potius Auctorem siderum quam Commissorem scelerum Ibid. The Strength of Gods The Vigour and Power of Angels or Angels themselves after the Grecian manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Priam himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bring Priam with you that he himself may swear 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Strength of Hector 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom Virg. imitates Vimquo Deûm Infernam AEn 12. the Infernal Gods V. 117. This Empyreal Substance This Heavenly Being this glorious shining Substance from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 burning like Fire hence Coelum Empyraeum the Firmament adorned with Everlasting Lamps V. 122. Irreconcileable Not to be made Friends implacable Irreconciliabilis Lat. not to be appeased V. 123. Who now Triumphs of the Lat. Triumphare to ride in Pomp after a Conquest made Excess of Excessus Lat. abundance overmuch V. 124. Sole reigning c. Reigning without a Rival is absolute above Sole of Solus Lat. alone without any Companion or Competitor of his Power Ibid. Holds the Tyranny Exerts his Arbitrary Power on high 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Government is most commonly expressive of an unjust and cruel Domination so it s Derivative Tyrannus is by Plato Isâ—crates and the Greek Tragedians used for a good Prince by Virg. in both senses Pars mihi pacis erit dextram tetigisse Tyranni of AEneas AEn 7. and Odium crudele Tyranni of Pigmalion AEn 1. V. 125. Th'Apostate Angel The Disloyal the Desertor fallen from his Faith and Allegiance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Renegado from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to stand on the other side one who quits his Party and runs over to the Enemy V. 126. Vaunting aloud c. Though in torment making vain boastings from Vanter Fr. to brag Ibid. Rackt Tormented and torn in pieces by dire Despair that rackt his Soul Curisque ingentibus aeger Spem vultu simulat premit altum corde dolorem AEn 1. Soft and expressive of a less-sized Sorrow V. 127. Compeer Companion Mate Compar Lat. a Second V. 128. Chief of many Throned O Leader of many mighty Angels that heretofore in Heaven sat on Thrones Angels and Superior Beings are in Scripture exprest by Powers and Thrones 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Colos. 1. 16. V. 129. Th'Imbattell'd Seraphim Th'Embodyed Angels th'Array'd Angelick Armies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seraphim is the usual Appellation given the Angels Isai. 6. 2. where they are described attending on Gods Throne 'T is a Derivative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn or flame like Fire alluding to the brightness of those Celestial Beings or to their wonderful Activity as Psal. 104 â— Making his Angels Spirits his Ministers a flame of Fire V. 130. Under thy Conduct Under thy Care and Guidance from Conductus Lat. V. 131. Heav'ns Perpetual King God Almighty the Everlasting Ruler in Heaven Perpetuus Lat. Beelzebub here diminisheth as much as he may of Gods Everlasting Empire not styling him Heavens Eternal but Perpetual King a word not of so Comprehensive Signiâ—cancy V. 132. To proof his high Supremacy Made tryal of his Title to that vast and absolute Dominion he assumed unto himself whether supported by his mighty Power by Fortune or the Fates Supremacy absolute Power from Supremus Lat. Highest God's frequent Title in the Scripture being the Most High V. 134. Rue the dire Event Lament the sad Success from the Ger. Rew to repent of perhaps of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bewail Event Consequence Success Eventus Lat. from evenire to happen to come to pass V. 138. Heavenly Essences Spirits Angelick Beings Inhabitants of Heaven Essentia Lat. the Being and Existence of any thing He arrogantly calls his Fellow-Subjects Gods in Derogation of the one Almighty V. 140. Invincible and Vigour For the Mind and Soul remain unconquerable and Strength and Courage are soon recovered Invincibilis Lat. Vigor Lat. Courage V. 141. Though all our Glory extinct Notwithstanding all our Glory be decayed and lost Extinct Extinctus Lat. put out as a Flame or any thing that burns and shines a word well expressing the loss of that Angelick Beauty which like a Glory attended on their Innocency which by their foul Rebellion they had forfeited covered now with Shame and black Confusion Extinctus is used in the same Metaphorical manner by Virg. Te prâ—pter eundem Extinctus pader AEn 4. V. 148. Suffice his Vengeful Ire That we may be able long to suffer and endure his Revenging Wrath Vengeful Vindicative from Venger Fr. to revenge Ire an old word for Anger from Ira Lat. V. 149. Thralls An old Danish word for Slaves or Captives V. 152. His Errands His Messages Sax. Erend a Messenger ab errando journeying to and fro Ibid. In the gloomy Deep In the obscure the dark Abyss an Interval our Poet supposes between Heaven and Hell corresponding well enough with Virgils Pallentes umbras Erebi noctemque profundam AEn 4. Gloomy from Sax. Glommun Twilight V. 153. Wâ—at can it then avail What does it profit or advantage us Valere Lat. to help or conduce to V. 154. Strength undiminish'd Our Vigour unabated Indiminutus Lat. unbroken What will all our Strength unbroken and undecayed nay our Everlasting Being what will these avail us if given us only to encrease our Woes by undergoing Everlasting Punishment A Question that startles Satan and to which he makes a quick Reply V. 156. Arch-Fiend The chief Devil Satan our chief Enemy Fiend Sax. an adversary V. 157. Fall'n Cherube Laps'd Angel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Rabbins is a Human Shape with two Wings placed over the Mercy-Seat of the Ark of the Covenant Exod. 25. 18 19. representing the Invisible Angels and Moses by this word expresseth the Angelick Guard placed before Paradise after Adam's Expulsion Gen. 3. 24. Ibid. To be weak is miserable To faint in undertaking or sink in undergoing what may happen is to be wretched Superanda est omnis fortuna ferendo Virg. Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest Mart. V. 164. To pervert that end To cross and thwart that Design Pervertere Lat. â—o turn aside to put out of the way V. 167. And disturb his inmost Counsels c. And make his most secret Deliberations miscarry and fall short of their designed end Disturb from disturbo Lat. to throw down to hinder Destino Lat. to appoint to design V. 169. But see so Virg. Quos ego Sed moâ—os prastat Componere flactus AEn 1. V. 170. His Ministers of Vengeance The Executioners of his Anger who pursued us Minister Lat. Servant Vengeance Fr. Revenge Ibid. Pursuit Fr. Poursuitte The Chase pursuing of an Enemy V. 171. The Sulphurous Hail The Storm of Fiery Hail that beat so sore upon us is now blown o'er and these Flaming Waves into whose Boyling Bosom from Heavens Loâ—ty Towers we fell begin t' abate and the Thunder riding upon the Wings of
ruddy Lightning and stoâ—my Rage perhaps exhausted of its Shafts begins to give over Roaring and Bellowing through the void Immense Sulphureuâ— Lat made of Brimstone Upon the Wicked he shall rain Snares Fire and Brimstone and stormy Tempest Psal. 11. 5. V. 173. The Fiery Surge The Flaming Flood Surge a Wave à Surgendo from their rising and riding over one another Ibid. That from the Precipice That in our steep downfal from Heaven received us Pracipitium Lat. a direct steep downfal V. 175. Wing'd with Red Lightning The Poets give the Thunder Wings to denote its swiftness and suddenness Fulminis Ocyor alis AEn 5. and Virg. describing the Cyclâ—ps forging a Thunderbolt Radios Addiderant rutili tres ignis alitis Austri Fulgores nunc terrificos sonitumque metu nque Miscelant operi flammisque sequacibus Iras. AEn 8. A Noble Description yet is our Poet very short and very significant Impetuous Impetuus Lat. violent stormy V. 179. Or satiate Fury Or his Anger now allay'd his Rage appeased Satiatus Lat. full cloy'd satisfied V. 180. Yâ—n Dreary That dismal woful an old Sax. word Yon that Sax. Ibid. Forlorn Waste destroy'd Verlohren Ger spoil'd lost whence the Forlorn Hope from the eminent danger they are exposed to V. 181. The Seat of Desolation That lonely solitary Seat destitute of any living Creature but our wretched selves Desolatio Lat. a laying waste Ibid. Void of Light Without Light dark Unide Fr. from Vacuus Lat. empty V. 182. Save what the Glimmering c. Except what th' obscure Glimpses of those Pale Flames Casts faint and fearful Glimmering a faint feeble shining like that of the Twilight from the Danish Glimmer to shine a little Livid Lividus Lat. for Lead-colour or that of bruised Flesh. Virg. styles the Water of Cocytus one of the Poetick Rivers in Hell Vada Livida AEn 6. This is an exact Explanation of our Poets meaning by Darkness visible in the foregoing Description of Hell V. 63. and is a wonderful addition to it V. 183. Tend Go Tendo Lat. to go to remove Tendimus in Latium AEn 1. V. 185. Can harbour there Can dwell is to be found there Hauberge Fr. an inn a place to stay at or from the Ger. Here an Army and Bergen to cover signifying properly the station of an Army V. 186. Our afflicted Powers Our broken and beaten Forces Afflictus Lat. broken harrass'd V. 187. Consult Consider of Consulo Lat. to advise about V. 189. This dire Calamity This sad Affliction and Overthrow Calamitas Lat. Damage Adversity V. 190. What Reinforcement What Reparation what new Strength and Courage we may gain from hope Renforcer Fr. to strengthen again to inspirit and add new Vigour to V. 192. Mate Companion from Maet Beâ—g an Associate V. 194. That Sparkling blazed That shot forth Fire and blazed out like a Flame Blaze from Blase Sax. a Torch V. 195. Prone on the Flood Lying along upon the flaming Flood Pronus Lat. lying down both from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cecidit autem Pronus Iâ— E. Ibid. Extended Extentus Lat. stretcht out in length and breadth V. 169. Lay floating many a Rood Cover'd a mighty space Rodata terrae as the Law terms it is the fourth part of an Acre Ibid. In bulk as huge For size as large Bulk signifies Greatness Thickness Largeness according to all Dimensions from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. weight Hugh vastly great from Oga Sax. terror fright as hugy terrible big V. 197. As whom the Fables Satan was of a size as vastly big as any of the Giant-Sons of Earth Briarcos or Typhon who as the Poets relate made War on Jove The Fables Name of whom the Stories are told Fabula Lat. a Tale a Fiction Ibid. Monstrous Wonderful Monstrosus Lat. strange preternatural V. 198. Titanian or Earth-born The last explains the first as is evident Genus antiquâ—un terrae Titania Pubes AEn 6. The Poets tell us Coelus and Vesta had two remarkable Sons Titan and Saturn this the youngest was permitted to Reign on condition he should destroy all his Male Children that the Empire might revert to Titan and his Posterity But the Cheat of Nursing Jove in Crete being discovered Titan and his Sons made War upon Saturn and deposed him To his Fathers rescue came Jupin overthrew the Titans and soon after deprived his Father of his Kingdom Vesta the Earth concerned at the Destruction of her Sons brought forth and raised against Jupiter many hideous Monsters of vast bigness who Rendezvousing in Thessaly piled the Mountains one upon another till they gave Jupiter a terrible Scalado at Heaven-Gates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Affectasse ferunt Regnum Coeleste Gigantes Aitaque Congestos struxisse ad sydera montes Meta. 1. Et conjuratos Coelum rescindere Fratres Ter sunt conati impâ—nere Pelio Ossam Georg. 1. V. 199. Briareos was one of these Earth-born Boobies he had 100 Hands with which he hurl'd up great Rocks at Jupiter therefore styled by Virg. Centum Geminus Briareus AEn 6. Ibid. Typhen who had his Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to smoak was of all these Monsters the most dreadful therefore reported the Son of Earth and Hell His Stature was so prodigious his Knees reach'd above the highest Mountains He had 100 Dragons Heads vomiting perpetual Fire and Flame at such a rate that all the Gods who came to Jupiter's Assistance finding such hot Work on 't ran shamefully away into Egypt disguising themselves there in the shapes of divers Beasts c. However with much to do at length Jupiter with many Volley of his Thunder overbore him and buried him under the Isle of Sicile as Ovâ—â— relates Emissumque unâ de sede Typhoëa terrae Coelitibus fecisse metum Metam l. 5. Vasta Gigantaeis injecta est Insula Membris Trinacris Magnis subjectum molibus urget AEtherias ausum sperare Typhoëa sedes In Memory of this Victory of Jupiters Virgil calls his Thunder Tela Typhoëa AEn 1. Nec tam justa fuit Terrarum Gloria Typhon c. Luc. 1. 4. V. 200. By Ancient Tarsus the chief City of Cilicia in Asia the Lesser near which in the Mountain Arimus was a Cave call'd Typhon's Den. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Translated by Virg. Durumque Cubile Inarime Jovis Imperiis Imposta Typhoëo AEn 9. Where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made Inarime an Island Southward of Prochyta which is a Mountain in Cilicia V. 201. Leviathan The Whale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. excellently described Job 41. 9. His Neisings make the Light to shine his Eyes are like the Eyelids of the Morn out of his Mouth go Lamps and Sparks of Fire So that Satans Blazing Eyes came up to the Comparison After this he that has a mind to read Tasso's Description of Satan may find it Cant. 4. Stan. 6 7 8. Nè tanto scoglio in mar ne rupe Alpestra Ne pur Calpe
V. 661. For who can think Submission For who is so base and mean as but to think of truckling of humbling our selves before our Adversary Submissio Lat. Yielding Submitting V. 662. Open or Understood Publick or Private Proclaimed or Concealed V. 663. He Spake Thus he spoke an Imitation of Homer's frequent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. And to confirm his Words In approbation of his Speech in token of their agreeing to his Opinion V. 667. Fierce with grasped Arms Furious raging of Fier Fr. from Ferox as this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Wild Beast And bold with Armed Hand bray'd on their Sounding Shields War 's dreadful Din daring outrageous Heaven's Almighty Arm A Graphick Description of the Foolish Defiance given by these Damned Spirits in their impotent Rage against the Almighty sitting in Heaven and having them in Derision Clash and Din are Words formed of the Similitude of the Sounds of which they are expressive Clash as if of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clango and Din of Tinnio the Sound that hollow Metal makes when beat upon Saeva sonoribus Arma. Says Virg. AEn 9. And Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tum scuta Cavaeque Dant sonitum flictu Galcae V. 669. Hurling Defiance This Verse seems Declaratory of the Action expressed in the two preceding the Reprobate Spirits making a dreadful Noise on their clattering Shields turned their disdainful Eyes up towards Heaven in Looks that bid Defiance to the Almighty Defiance a Challenge of Defier to Challenge to Dare to the Combat Fr. Hurl or as its Original Whirl to throw to throw round about V. 670. Whose Griesly Top Whose horrid Head Griesly an old Word for Ugly dreadful V. 671. Belch'd Fire and rouling Smoak Like Virg. of Mount AEtna Turbine fumantem piceo candente favilla AEn 3. Belch as the Latin Ructare formed of the Sounds they express V. 672. The rest entire shone with a glossie Scurf The rest all Ore was covered with a shining Crust Glossie bright shining of Gleissen Ger. to shine Scurf a thin dry and lighter kind of Scab Entire of Entier Fr. whole V. 673. In his Womb was hid Metallic Ore That his Belly his Entrails were stored with Mines of divers Metals Metallic Metallicus Lat. belonging to Metals in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quod vix ulla Metalli vena inveniatur quin altera in propinquo inveniatur unde Graeci videntur dixisse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plin. l. 33. c. 6. Ibid. Ore Is crude Earth as digged up unrefined and containing Metal in proportion to the richness of the Mind Lead Tin Silver Ore of the Fr. Or Aurum Gold the Metal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 674. The Work of Sulphur The Offspring and Production of Sulphur that Vivum fossile as Celsus calls it which as if it were Soli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Subterranean Fire concocts and boils up the Crude and undigested Earth into a more profitable consistence and by its innate Heat hardens and bakes it into Metals It is called Sulphur rerum by Paracelsus and the Chymists it ordinarily signifies Brimstone Ibid. Winged with speed 'T is usual with the Poets to express Speed by Wings those Creatures that are furnished with them being the â—â—â—blest Thus Fulminis Ocyor alis and Mercury the Messenger of the Gods is fledged with them both at head and Foot Ut primum alatis tetigit magalia Plantis AEn 4. V. 675. A Numerous Brigade A great Company Ital. Brigata a Company of Soldiers generally Horsemen Hence our Brigadeer the Commander of a Party of Horse Numerosus Lat. for a great many V. 676. Piâ—â—s Of Pionnier Fr. a Digger Of Pion an old Word derived of the barbarous Latin Pedito that is Pedes a Foot Soldier V. 677. To Trench To draw a Line or digg a Trench cross a Field Of Trencher Fr. to Cut. V. 678. Or cast a Rampart Or to throw up a Defence Fr. Rempar the Wall of a Fortress Of Re en and parer to defend one against Ibid. Mammon lead them on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Riches Wealth it is no Hebrew Word though found in the Lexicon Rabbin-Philosâ—â—h St. Austin in his 35th Sermon on the Words of our Saviour Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Luc. 16. 13. where the Greek has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we render Riches tells us it is a Punic Word many of which were crept into and mixt with the Hebrew Language I do not find it any where used in the Sacred Text but in the 9th and 11th Verses of the above quoted Chapter and Matth. 6. 24. V. 679. The least Erected Spirit The most Abject Base and Vile Erectus Lat. for Raised Erectâ consurgit ad Oscula plantâ stands on Tip-toes Juv. V. 682. Heaven's Pavement trodden Gold As the Heavenly Jerusalem is described by St. John Revel 21. 21. And the Street of the City is pure Gold Pavimentum Lat. a Floor a Causeway of Pavio Lat. to beat down to pave V. 684. In Vision beatifick In the happy beholding of God Almighty's infinite Perfections in which the supremest Satisfaction consists Visio Lat. Sight Seeing Beatificus Lat. Beatum faciens making Happy V. 685. By his suggestion Taught Instructed by his Information Suggestio Lat. a Prompting Of Suggerere to put in Mind to Prompt V. 686 Ransack'd the Centre Dug deep down to the middle of the Earth To Ransack is to search narrowly and to pry into every Corner for Prey and Plunder as if Reinsaccare saccos Excutere Expilare Centre Centrum Lat. the middle Point in a Circle or any round Body V. 687. Rifled the Bowels of their Mother Tore out the Entrails of the Earth that bore 'em and Nurs'd 'em too the Earth was called not only Mater magna from her many Sons but as Antiquity thought the Mother of all the Gods Alma mater was another of her Attributes from her constant providing for her great Family Nec tantum segetes Alimentaque debita Dives Poscebatur humus sed itum est in viscera Terrae Quasque recondiderat Stygiisque admoverat umbris Effodiuntur Opes Met. Lib. 1. Rifler or Rafler Fr. or the Sax. Reapian all probably of Rapere to snatch to tear out V. 688. For Treasures better hid In search of Riches which had better been still in the Center lock'd up there and close concealed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Store laid up for the future Pereunt discrimine nullo Amissae leges Sed pars vilissima rerum Certamen Movistis Opes Luc. Lib. 3. V. 690. Ribs of Gold Continuing the Metaphor of Earths Bowels he calls the great Hole made in the Hill a wide Wound and here the Ore Ribs of Gold almost refined by the Natural Heat of that Infernal Soil V. 692. Deserve the precious Bane Deserve the dear Destruction Well may Riches come from Hell the Desires and Designs after which will send so many thither Bana an old word for Murderer Lucan describing Affrica praiseth it
thereof according to the number of the Persons in their Families thô the Talmud will have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid hoc by way of Admiration V. 114. To perplex and dash To confound and disorder the wisest Councels of the Sax Dwaef a Fool one astonished frighted out of all Thought and Consideration Maturest properly Ripest of Maturus Lat. Ripe Maturest Counsels the best chosen Advice brought nearest to perfection V. 116. In Vice industrious c. In ill laborious in more gallant Deeds fearful and backward Industrius Lat. diligent forward Nobler of Nobilis Nobilior Lat. more noble more excellent Timorous of Timidus Lat. fearful V. 118. And with perswasive Accent And in his winning way did thus begin Perswasive of Persuasio Lat. for perswading gaining on our Hearers by Arguments finely urged eloquent and graceful Discourse Accent Lat. Accentus the graceful Tone used in pronouncing Speeches affecting the Auditory with the Harmonious turn of the Tongue V. 121. Main Reason to perswade Chief Argument to move us to immediate War Main of the Fr. Magne as that of Magnus Lat. great main Reason chiefest the greatest Reason Immediate War without any intermission incessant uninterrupted of Immediatus Lat. without any stop or delay V. 122. Did not disswade me most Were not the greatest Argument to me against it Of Dissuaderâ— Lat. to advise to the contrary to advise against V. 123. Seem to cast ominous Conjecture c. And seem to raise an ill Opinion of our Undertaking Ominosus Lat. unlucky for Omen is used in both senses and here in the worst Quod dii prius omen in ipsum Convertant AEn 2. Conjectura a Guess an Opinion V. 124. In Fact of Arms In Deeds of War Of Facta Lat. valiant noble Deeds V. 127. And utter Dissolution And intire Destruction of his Being utter Abolition Of Dissolutio Lat. from dis and solvo the breaking the Ligaments and very Bonds of Being V. 128. As the scope of all his Aim As the utmost end of his Intention as the chief Design and Mark at which he aims Scopus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Mark at which Archers shoot and thence the Intention and Design at which Men in their Undertakings aim V. 130. That render all Access impregnable That make all Approaches to Heaven's high Towers vain and to no purpose Render of the Fr. Rendre as that of Reddere Lat. i. e. Eâ—â—icere to make Access Accessus Lat. a coming to Imprenable Fr. not to be taken or forced Ibid. Oft on the bordering Deep Their Legions of Armed Angels oft encamp upon the gloomy Deep that borders on our flaming Dungeon V. 132. Encamp their Legions Legions of Angels keep their watchful Camp Neighbouring on the Deep or Winging through the Dark search far and wide through Regions of the Night disdaining any sudden Onset or Attempt Encamp of in and campus Lat. Field Armies being then Encamped when quitting their Quarters they take the Fields and lodge in ' em V. 133. Scout To spy to search diligently as those who are sent out to discover the approach or posture of the Enemy Of the Fr. Fsâ—cute a Spy of Escoâ—ter Fr. to hear to listen their Ears in the Night especially being on the Watch as well as their Eyes at other times V. 134. Surprize Of the Fr. Surprinse a taking one at unawares an unforeseen Assault given on a sudden V. 135 c. By Force and at c. Or suppose us able to force our way and at our Heels all Hell in maddest Mutiny armed with â—ooty Fires could rise and mix 'em with Heaven's Purity yet would our mighty Adversary sit unsullied on his Throne and Heaven the Seat of his transcendent Brightness would endure no Stain but quickly throw off and disdain the blâ—ck Attempt superior and soon clear it self from all our gross and baser Flames Insurrectio Lat. arising against of Insurgere Lat. to confcund to mix with of Confundere Lat. to mingle by poaring together Incorruptible Incorruptibilis Lat. not to be corrupted incapable of decay or alteration Unpolluted Impollutus Lat. unstained V. 139. Etherial Mould The Heavenly Substance Mould properly signifies Earth Dust. V. 140. Incapable of Stain Heaven 's Azure not to be stained or sullied Incapax Lat. not subject to Expel of Expellere to drive out V. 142. Tâ—us repulsed Thus worsted and foil'd Repulsus Lat. beaten back defeated V. 143. Our final Hope is flat Despair Our last our utmost Hope is meer Despair Final last highest from Finalis Lat. last Flat plat Meer plain downright Despair Ibid. We must exasperate We must provoke Exasperare Lat. to whet to make more rough and severe V. 147. Thâ—â— Intellectual Being This Spiritual Understanding this Angelic Essence whose Beings are more compleat and of a compass of Understanding more vast and comprehensive than the Rational Intellectualis Lat. belonging to Knowledge V. 150. In the wide Womb c. In the empty Womb of dark Confusion Uncreated Night is made the Image of Non-entity for of Things uncreated or that have no Being we have but an obscure Negative Notion Iâ—creatus Lat. unmade not created V. 151. Devoid of Sense and Motion Without all Sense and Motion Senseless dead void and devoid of the Fr. Vnide empâ—â—â— This is one of those bad which Belial endeavours to make appear a good Reason according to his Character Ver. 113. for certainly 't is much better not to be at all than to be miserable to all Eternity as our Saviour himself testifieth of Judâ—â— Woe to that Man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed it had been good for that Man if he had never been born Matth. 14. 21. And we see even Kings and mighty Potentates willingly give up and desire to resign their Crowns and all the Affluence and Power the Pomp and Pride of Life when press'd with extream and remediless Pain thô but Corporeal thô the naked and shivering Soul may for ought they know immediately be summoned and arraigned at Heaven's high Tribunal and after a short interval the lazy Grave may again give up its sad and sinful Associate to be consigned over to Eternal Punishment V. 154. Is doubtful Whether it be in his Power to do it is uncertain is more than we know that is Whether it be consistent with his immutable Decrees to annihilate and destroy our Angelic Beings V. 156. Belike through Impotence c. As it were through Weakness or by meer Mistake Impotentia signifies properly want of Power thence used to express Rasâ—ness and Disability to Govern our Passions Will God who is so Wise and so Omniscient manage his Anger so unwarily as in his wrathful Rage with one stroke to destroy and end his Enemies whom his Anger spares decreed and doom'd to suffer without end V. 160. We are Decreed Reserv'd and Destin'd We are adjudged and doom'd kept and appointed for everlasting Pain Decreed of Decerno Lat. to judge to sentence Reserv'd Reservatus Lat. kept preserv'd Destin'd Destinatus
each his own way as Inclination or the sad Survey of their dark Dungeon leads them Ranged of Ranger or Arranger Fr. to draw into Order V. 526. Truce to his restless Thoughts Ease to his tortured Mind Truce Treves Fr. of the Ger. Trew Faith is a temporary or short Peace agreed on by Enemies upon mutual Faith given The Iroksom Hours to pass away the unpleasant Hours Irksom as if Werksom painful of Werk the Lincolnshire Word for Grief or Pain V. 531. As at the Olympian Games One of the four Celebrated Games of Graece was Instituted by Hercules in Honour of his Father Jupiter Olympius not far from the City Olympia in Elis after he had revenged himself on Augeas the King of that Province It was observed every fifth year and the Exercises were five Cuffing Running Dancing Quoiting and Wrestling Cursibus crudo decernet Graecia cestu Geor. 3. The Victor was Crown'd with a Garland of Olive That Hercules and not any of the five Idean Brothers was the Institutor of these Olympic Games Pindar attests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. in Olymp. Pisa was part of Elis near the River Alpheus Aut Alphea rotis praelabi fllumina Pisae Et Jovis in Luco currus agitare volantes Geor. 3. Hor. Od. 1. 1. 1. Quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse juvat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Olympic Races were at first invented in Honour and Memory of the Sun's Motion Ibid. Or Pythian Fields Where the Pythian Games were as Ovid tells us Instituted by Apollo after he had slain the vast Serpent Python to perpetuate the Memory of his Victory Neve Operis famam possit delere vetustas Instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos Pythia de domitae Serpentis nomine dictos His juvenum quicunque manu pedibusve rotâve Vicerat Oesculeae capiebat frondis honorem Nondum Laurus erat Met. 1. 1. But in Memory of the Debauchery attempted by him on the Nymph Daphne the Victors were afterwards Crowned with Laurel V. 532. Part curb their fierce Steeds Some of them are employed in governing and taming their high-metled Horses making them governable and obedient to Hand and Heel Part of Lat. Pars a Portion To Curb is to with-hold to hold in to stop or keep from running away of the Fr. Courber to bend This is a manifest imitation of Virg. AEn 6. Quae gratia curruûm Armorumque fuit vivis quae cura Nitentes Pascere Equos eadem sequitur tellure repostos Ibid. Or shun the Goal with rapid Wheels Metaque fervidis Evitata rotis Hor. lib. 1. Od. 1. In Charior-Racing the Art of the Driver was shewn in turning round and not touching the Goal attempted often with extream Hazard Goal Fr. Gaule a long Pole or Post used to mark the Place where the Course ended and therefore well applied by Virg. Hic tibi mortis erant metae AEn 12. Rapid swift Lat. Rapidus V. 533. Or fronted Brigad's form Or range and draw their Troops up facing each other when an Army is Embattled the Line next the Enemy is called the Van or Front of the Army from Exercitûs Form Lat. Formare to shape fashion bring into form V. 535. Waged in the c. Wage cometh of the Fr. Gager to Fight give Battle or Engage War being the worst of Wagers V. 537. Before each Van prick forth c. From before each Army the nimble active Knights light as the Air where they Encounter spur their Coursers on and point and level their Lances at each other till the main Grosses joyn Van the fore Front of an Army of the Fr. Avant the fore part so their Avantgarde the Vantguard Prick of Piquer Fr. to Ride to Spur a Horse whence to Pickeer signifyeth to Ride out from a Body of Men going to Charge and single out some Daring Man engaging with Sword and Pistol as formerly with Launce generally performed on Horseback and therefore a Derivative of Piquer and not of Pike Couch their Spears lower let fall their Launces and drop 'em so as to run full tilt against the Adversary Fr. Coucher to lay along Spears in marching being born upright let fall to a level in an Encounter V. 538. With Fâ—ats of Arms With Warlike Deeds with bold Exploits Fr. Faict an Action V. 539. From either end of Heaven c On every side the Firmament seems on Fire where the Heaven seemeth to our sight to have an End hard to be found in Bodies circular Welkiâ— the Sky the Region of the Air Sax. Welen These Warlike Apparitions may be well supposed sent to forewarn Proud and Luxurious Cities they being seldom fancied to appear but in disastrous Times and eminent Dangers our own Stories afford us some of these fighting Phaenomena about the time of our Civil Wars V. 540. Others with vast Typhean Rage c. Others more boistrous with Gigantic Rage tear Hills and Rocks and in Hurricanes Tempest the Air so hideous that Hell it self can scarce contain the dire Turmoil Typhaean a Derivative of Typhaeus or Typhon one of the Gigantic Invaders of Heaven of whom before Book 1. Ver. 199. Fell of the old Fr. word Felle Cruel whence Fellon V. 541. Rend Or Rent of the Sax. Rendean to tear up V. 543. As when Alcides c. As raging mad and furious as Hercules who having fought with Achelous and won Deianira the Daughter of Oeneus King AEtolia coming to the River Euenus Nessus the Centaur would needs undertake to carry the Bride over to whom after Hercules was got to the other side he offered Violence but was immediately slain by one of the Arrows that had killed the Venomous Hydra the Revengeful Ravisher mixing his Bloud with the Poyson that infected the deadly Dart perswaded the credulous Lady that the Garment stained with his Gore would prove a most certain Antidote against her Husband's wandering Affections as famous for the Conquests gained o're him by the fair Sex as he was for his own Hercules afterwards having subdued Oechalia a City of Boeotia brought thence the Charming Iole Daughter of Erytus King of that Country and Landing in Eubaea was busie in Erecting an Altar to return Thanks by Sacrifice to his Father Jupiter when Deianira jealous of his new Mistress sent Lychas to him with the Poyson'd Robe which stuck so close to him that he pulled the Flesh from his Bones endeavouring to get it off whereupon he made himself a Funeral Pile of Thessalian Pines and burnt himself thereon Venerat Eveus rapidas Jove natus ad undas Met. 9. Where read this Story Hercules was the Son of Jupiter and Alcmena named Alcides of his Grandfather Alcaeus as Euripides testifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Victor ab Oechalia Cenaeo sacra parabat Vota Jovi Met. l. 1. V. 544. Th' Invenom'd Empoison'd with the Bloud of Nessus Fr. Envenimé of In and Venenum Lat. Poison Praetulit imbutam Nesseo Sanguine vestem
of the Span. Faltar to faint and Falta a Swound Visage incomposed out of Countenance Incompositus Lat. disordered out of fashion V. 995. With Ruine upon Ruine c. Totally broken and utterly ruined Ruina Lat. for undoing Rout of the Fr. Route the running away of an Army of the Verb Rompre to break V. 996. Confusion worse confounded Confounded and driven through the Kingdom of Confasion V. 998. I upon my Frontiers I upon the Confines of my Kingdom keep my Court and reside Frontiers of Frontiere Fr. the Bounds of a Prince's Territories from the Lat. Frons the Forehead V. 1001. Encroach'd on still Gained upon daily by our home-bred Quarrels Encroach'd of the Fr. Accrocher to hook and draw in An Encroachment the Law Term or Accroachment Accrochement Fr. is an unlawful gaining or gathering in upon another Man 's Right Intestine Broils our Domestic and Civil Jars Intestinum the Bowels the Intrals Civil War being in the very Bowels of a Nation and thence the more dangerous Broils of Brouiller Fr. to jumble together to confound V. 1002. Weakening the Scepter Infeebling and destroying the Empire of ancient Night Scepters and Crowns being the Emblems and Representations as well as Ornaments of Power V. 1009. Havock Slaughter Destruction of Haroc Sax. for the bloody and rapacious Bird a Hawk V. 1011 His Sea should find ashore That his Voyage and Travel should have an end V. 1012. With fresh Alacrity With more Courage and renew'd Vigour Alacritas Lat. chearfulness of Alacer Lat. sprightly vigorous V. 1013. Springs upward like a Pyramid Raises himself directly upright like a pointed flame of Fire Pyramid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Geometrical Figure so called of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fire because shaped like ascending Fire and Flame whose Nature is to mount The famous Egyptian Pyramids the expensive and astonishing Tombs of their Kings are of this Figure V. 1014. Into the wild Expanse Into the vast Space from Expandere Lat. to stretch out the Expanse signifying properly the Air Firmament the Heavens or whatever else is spread out over us Ibid. Through the Shock c. Through the strugle and encounter of the Warring Elements hudled together in their pregnant Causes as V. 913. Shock a Charging an Encounter of the Fr. Choc and Choquer to Engage as Armies do V. 1016. Environ'd Encompass'd surrounded of Environer Fr. to enclose V. 1017. When Argo past Argo was either the first Ship as the Poets tell us or the most considerable of those times built for the Expedition to Colchos it took its Name either of Argos its Architect or of the the Argives the Grecians who sailed in it or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. swift from its good Sailing Non Palladiâ compacta manu regum referens Inclyta remos quaeritur Argo Sen. Mede Et altera quae vehat Argo Delectos Heroas Virg. Ecl. 4. Inde lacessitum primò mare cum rudis Argo Miscuit ignotas temerato littore gentes Primaque cum ventis pelagique furentibus undis Composuit mortale genus fatisque per illam Accessit mors una ratem Luc. Phars l. 3. V. 1018. Through Bosphorus Through the Streights of the Thracian Bosphorus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Oxe the Passage being so narrow that Cattle swam over from one Shore to the other Ibid. Betwixt the justling Rocks Are two Rocks lying in the Mouth of the Euxine or Black Sea which are said to justle one another because they seemed at a distance to be but one great Rock and to divide or open as Ships approach'd 'em they were called Symplegades Syndromides of which our Poet in his Justling Rocks has given the true Interpretation Cum duo montes Claustra profundi hinc atque illinc subito impulsu velut AEtherio Gemerent sonitu spargeret astra Nubesque ipsas mare deprensum Sen. Med. Homer's description of 'em may be seen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 1019. Or when Ulysses c. When Ulysses avoided Charybdis leaving it on his left hand and past by the dangerous Whirlpool Scylla as Circe advised him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ulysses one of the Grecian Conquerors of Troy Son of Laertes King of Ithaca and Dulichia two small Ionian Islands this Hero is Eternized by Homer not only in his Iliads but by a Book as big composed of his Travels and entituled by his Name Larbord the left side of a Ship Leverbord of the Lat. Laevits left Scylla latus dextrum laevum irrequieta Charybdis Met. 13. V. 1020. Charybdis A dangerous and tumultuous Sea near Sicily hard by Messana Homer describes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about 100 Verses from the beginning Virgil imitates him in all but his Prolixity Laevum implicata Charybdis Obsidet atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos sidera verberat undis AEn 3. They derive Charybdis of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to gape and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to suck in and by all the Poets recorded a most voracious Whirlpool Ratibusque inimica Charybdis Nunc sorbere fretum nunc reddere Met. 7. Ibid. The other Whirlpool Scylla Of which before V. 660. To which you may subjoyn Cum siculi Virgo Pelori Rabidos utero succincta canes Omnes pariter solvit hiatus Quis non totos horruit artus Toties uno latrante monstro Sen. Med. Whirlpool a Gulf swallowing and sinking all that comes within its Circle of Wearelen Bel. to turn round and Pool of Palus Lat. V. 1025. Following his Track Following his Footsteps Track of the Fr. Trace or Trac the print of the Foot or a Path made by Footsteps of the Lat. Tractus a Wheel or the Tract and Way made by it V. 1026. Paved after him a broad c. Wide is the Gate and broad is the Way that leadeth to Destruction and many there be that go in thereat Matth. 7. v. 13. Paved made firm and fixed with and pitcht with Stones of the Fr. Paver and that of Pavire to strike of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greek signifying also to strike Stones being so ram'd and beaten into the Streets V. 1031. With easie Intercourse With free access with easie and open way Intercourse of the Lat. Intercursus properly a going between from place to place of Inter the Preposition and Currere Lat. to run to move V. 1034. The Sacred Influence The Divine Streams the Beautiful and Heavenly Beams of Light discover themselves Influence of Influentia and this of Influere Lat. to flow and stream easily into a word wonderfully fitted to express the swift and immediate Influxes of the pure Streams of Light of which more in the beginning of the Third Book V. 1036. Shoots far a glimmering Dawn And from the Chrystal Sky darts far into the Bosom of dark Night the chearful break of Day Glimmering B. 1. V. 182. Dawn the break of Day of
shalt thou sit in thy Flesh Incarnate in carne of Caro Lat. Flesh. V. 316. Son both of God and Man Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Psal. 2. 7. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy-Ghost Matth. 1. 20. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luc. 1. 35. Which was the Son of Adam which was the Son of God Luke 3. 38. V. 317. Anointed Universal King Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 16. Kings in Scripture are styled God's Anointed Saul the first King of the Israelites was anointed by Samuel 1 Sam. 10. 1. and his Successor David by the same hand 1 Sam. 16. 13. Then Samuel took the Horn of Oyl and anointed him a Ceremony still in use among most Nations Therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the Oyl of Gladness above thy fellows Heb. 1. 9. Acts 10. 38. V. 321. That bide in Heaven c. That have their Abode in Heaven according to Phil. 2. 10. That at the Name of Jesus every Knee should â—ow of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth Bide and abbreviation of Abide to stay in a place V. 324. Shalt in the Skie They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory Matth. 24. 30. V. 325. The summoning Archangels The Chief of thy Angels that shall summon and call all that are or ever were living Michael is named one of the Archangels Epist. Jude v. 9. Summoning of Summonere Lat. to warn and Summonitio in our Law is a giving notice to appear in Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief Angel For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes. 4. 16. V. 326. Thy dread Tribunal Thy dreadful Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. v. 10 11. Tribunal Lat. Ibid. From all Winds From all Parts and Quarters of the World from whence the Winds blow and take their Names Eurus ad auroram Nabathaeque regna recessit Persidaque radiis juga subdita matutinis Met. l. 1. They shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds Matth. 24. 31. V. 327. The cited Dead The Dead called to appear at the General Day of Doom And I saw the Dead small and great stand before God Rev. 20. 11 Citare and Citatio Lat. are Terms of the Civil Law signifying a calling one to answer an Accusation or Crime brought against him V. 329. Such a Peal Such a Sound shall awaken 'em from their long and lazy Lethargy He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet Matth. 24. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With a Trumpet and loud Voice as the Original V. 331. They Arraigned shall sink They as soon as brought to that bright Bar self-accused and condemned shall sink down into Hell beneath thy Sovereign Sentence To Arraign is to bring a Prisoner to the Bar to hear the Accusation laid to his Charge of Arranger Fr. to set and digest Things into order by way of Proof in Tryals V. 334. The World shall burn The Heaven and the Earth which are now by the same Word are kept in store reserved unto Fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly Men. But the Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up 2 Pet. 3. v. 7 and 10. Lucretius tells us the World shall be destroyed by a downfal Principio mare ac terras caelumque tuêre Horum naturam triplicem tria corpora Memmi Tres species tam dissimiles tria talia texta Una dies dabit exitio multosque per annos Sustentata ruet moles machina Mundi Lib. 5. Ovid affirms its Destruction shall be by Fire Esse quoque infatis reminiscitur affore tempus Quo mare quo tellus correptaque Regia Caeli Ardeat mundi moles operosa laboret Met. l. 1. Lucan agrees with him Hos Caesar populos si nunc non usserit ignis Uret cum terris uret cum gurgite tonti Communis mundo superest rogus ossibus astra Misturus Phar. l. 7. How this lower World and all therein may probably enough be liable to a General Conflagration is easie to imagine but how the Heavens the Celestial Bodies the Sun Moon and Stars those bright burning Beings which many of the Fathers as well as Philosophers believed to consist and be made of Fire shall be obnoxious to it is not so familiar to our Understandings Certain it is the World shall have an end Generation and Corruption shall cease Motion give place to Rest and Time to Eternity and then both the Elementary and Celestial Bodies having performed and finified their Function and all their Vicissitudes and manifold Mutations being determined shall be done away The Heavens the work of thy hands they shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a Garment as a Vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed Psal. 102. 26. And with this agrees the Vision of St. John And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it from whose Face the Earth and the Heavens fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20. 11. V. 335. New Heaven and Earth Of which Isaiah Prophesied Behold I create new Heavens and a new Earth and the former shall not be remembred ch 65. v. 17. Confirmed by St. Peter Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. Foreseen by St. John And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed away Rev. 21. 1. The number of Beings subject to Generation and Corruption to encrease and decay will one day be compleat and fulfilled then the Heavenly Orbs the Elements the Earth and Sea the Causes and the Receptacles and Subjects of those many Mutations of Matter through the Vicissitudes of Time and Motion shall be no more And God will make another World more beautiful and much more glorious than this void of all Alteration incapable of Decay the House of Eternity V. 336. After Tribulations long After all the Afflictions of this Life Tribulatio Lat. Anguish Pain Suffering V. 337. See Golden Days As the Poets express'd the first happy Simplicity of the World by the Golden Age before that mischievous Metal was discovered to disturb it Aurea prima sata est aetas Ov. Met. 1. Toto surget gens aurea mundo Virg. Ecl. 4. V.
556. Swift as a shooting Star c. Swift like a darting Star that in the Autumn crosses the Night when Fat and Oily Vapours taking Fire with their Activity hurry the Air into Violence and by their shining Path direct the Seaman from what Quarter of the Heavens to beware of stormy boisterous Winds So Virgil Saepe etiam Stellas vento impendente videbis Praecipites Coelo labi Noctisque per umbram Flammarum longos à tergo albescere tractus Georg. 1. That the Stars do not shoot or fall from their Spheres according to vulgar Opinion is the Tenent of Philosophy But that their shooting is the Redundancy of their Nutritive Liquor which sometimes blurts from them as Oyl from Lighted Lamps Plin. Lib. 1. Cap. 8. Servius thought those descending Traces of Light were Particles of the AEtherial Fire blown and fore'd down by softy and vehement Winds But according to Aristotle they were esteem'd Fat and Oyly Exhalations drawn up from the Earth into the middle Region of the Air and there by the extraordinary Cold so compress'd and condens'd that they took Fire by his unintelligible Antiperistasis or by their own violent Circumgyration Longoque per aëra tractu Fertur ut interdum de Coelo Stella sereno Ersi non cecidit potuit cecidisse videri Meta. 2. Well might the bright Angel Uriel Regent of the Sun and mounted on a Sun-Beam be compared to a Shoâ—ting Star when Homer likens Achilles in his Brazen Armour to the same Illustrious Meteor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The same Comparison is applyed to the Armed Diomede and the Fiery Reflection shot from his Shining Shield and Flaming Helmet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the most Parallel place at which our Authors imitation seems to have aim'd and to have outdone is the Description of Minerva's Descent from Heaven into the Trojan Camp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 557. In Autumn thwarts the Night Comes across the Night thwarts and affronts the dismal darkness of the Night In Autumn Lat. Autumnus when the Heats are great Totoque Autumni incanduit aestu Geor. 3. V. 558. When Vapours fired impress the Air Here we have the Philosophy of these shooting Stars that they are Unctuous Exhalations which being fired aâ—ault the Air and move it violently Impress of imprimere Lat. to use force upon to make impression on and in this sense Impressio signifies an Assault an Onset given by engaging Armies Ibid. Shews the Mariner Marinier Fr. the Sailer the Seaman of Marinus and Maâ—e Lat. the Sea V. 559. From what Point of his Compass From what part of the Sky from what Quarter of the Heav'n The Compass here meant is a Circle set round with the 32 different Points from which the Winds have their Denominations V. 561. Thy Course by Lot Gabriel is supposed to have the Guard of Paradise fallen to him by Lot Thus the Promised Land was divided to the Israeliâ—es Notwithstanding the Lâ—na shall be divided by Lot Numb 26. Vers. 55. Every Man's Inheritance shall be where is Lot falleth Chap. 33. Vers. 54. In the same manner Matthias was chosen and numbred with the Apostles And they gave forth their Lots and the Lot fell upon Maâ—thias Acts 1. Vers. 26. V. 567. Gods latest Image The newest the last Image God was pleased to make of Himself For it is not to be doubted that if Man in part of a Corporeal Substance yet bears his Maker's Image the Angels those much more Pure and Spiritual Beings are more exact Resemblances of that Eternal Purity and Perfection that Created them as being more perfect Approximations to their Maker V. 568. And mark'd his AEry Gate Observ'd his speedy March or his passage through the Air or his giddy and indecent Carriage not well suiting a Spirit seemingly so zealous AEry AErius Lat. of the Air the Epither of Birds that mount into it AEriae quò congessere palumbes Ecl. 3. Gate Walk Passage March of the Sax. Gan to go V. 569. That lies from Eden North That lies on the North-side of Eden the Mountain Niphates on which Satan alight Book 3. Vers. 742. where his Hellish Conscience and Devilish Despair disfigured him and discovered his seeming Saintship Vers. 23. of this Book 4. V. 571. Alien from Heav'n c. I soon beheld his Countenance contrary to that of Heavenly Spirits clouded and overcast with dismal Storms of Passions wild and ungovernable Alien from Heav'n estranged from God and all Goodness of Alienus a Stranger Obscur'd darken'd of Obscurus Lat. hid dark V. 574. Of the Banish'd Crew One of the condemn'd Crew thrown out of Heaven and banish'd of Bannir Fr. to expel V. 576. The Winged Warriour The Archangel Gabriel according to the usual Description of Angels adorn'd with Wings to denote the Swiftness and Agility of Spiritual Beings and as Satan in the assumed shape of a Cherubim is painted Wings he wore Of many colour'd Pâ—me sprinkled with Gold Book 3. Vers. 641. V. 580. The Vigilance here plac'd The Watch here kept Vigilance Vigilantia Lat. Watchâ—â—â—nâ—ss Vigiâ—iâ—e Lat. the Watch. V. 585 Spiritual Substance c. 'T is hard to restrain and keep out Spirits and Immaterial 〈◊〉 wiâ—â— Corporeal and Bodily Bars Corpâ—real Corporeaâ—is Lat. of Câ—pus Lat. a Body V 5â—â— In whatsâ—ever sâ—ape he lurk In what disguise â—oâ—ver he lies hid To lurk is to hide ones â—elf to lie in wait of the Bel. Loeren to lie in Ambush or the Fr. Lerre an old word Larron Fr. Latro Lat. a Thief V. 592. Beneâ—th th' Azores To the Sun now gone down below the Western Islands The Azores are Islands of the Western Atlantick Ocean Nine in Number commonly called the Tercera's of Tercera the largest of 'em Heylin's Geo. others confound 'em with the Canaries Bohun's Geog. Dict. Ibid. Whither the Prime Orb c. Uriel return'd on the bright Beam that brought him whose Point now mounted and raised carried him fliding back to the Sun now sunk below the Western Isâ—es to which the first Orb swift beyond all belief had hurried him in a Days space or this our Earth less likely to turn round taking a shorter and more easie turn Eastward left him now on her West-side gilding and adorning with various Colours and gay Reflections the Clouds that wait upon his Western Throne Prime Orb Primus Orbis Lat. the first the chief Circle the Primum Mobile V. 594. Diurnal Volubil Diurnal Diurnus Lat. belonging to a Day of a Days length or continuance Volubil Volubilis Lat. that may be turn'd round à volvendo turning or running round V. 598. Twilight gray c. Now the quiet Evening came on and dusky Twilight with her grave Livery cover'd every thing The Sun was described according to his high Quality arraying
Last in the Train of Night Diffugiunt Stellae Quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli statione novissimus exit Met. Lib. 2. V. 168. Sure Pledge of Day c. Sure Earnest of the coming Day that dost adorn with thy bright Coronet the lovely Morn the Circlet a diminitive of Circle Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit Os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. V. 170. That sweet Hour of Prime The early Morning Hour when Air and Earth are both sweet and fresh Dum mane novum dum gramina canent Et ros in tenerâ pecori gratissimus herbâ Georg. 3. V. 171. Of this great World both Eye and Soul Thou Sun the Worlds vast Universal Eye Natures Illustrious Polypheme styled The God of this new World Book 4. Vers. 33. early esteem'd one and worshipp'd in stead of his Creator The Ancients thought the Sun not only the General Surveyor of the World but the Observer of all that was transacted in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I invoke the All-seeing Circle of the Sun AEscul in Prometh and in all Leagues Confederacies and other publick Transactions he was called to Witness as the Universal Eye from which nothing could be conceal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esto nunc Sol testis AEn 12. Sol oculis juvenem quibus aspicit omnia vidit O Lux immensi Publica Mundi Met. Lib. 2. Ibid. And Soul The most Ancient Philosophers were of Opinion that there was one Universal Intellectual Soul the Emanation of the Great Mind God created and diffused over the whole World by whose general Virtue and Plastick Power all things are generated and preserved and the whole Frame of Nature continued in her uninterrupted Course and beautiful Order this the Platonists called Animam Mundi and with them Mercurius Trismegistus Theophrastus c. the Stoicks and the Peripateticks agree Zâ—roaster styles it a Catholick Invisible Fire Virgil A Mental Spirit actuating the Heavens Earth Seas and Stars Principio Coelum ac Terras camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit Totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem c. Igneus est olhis vigor coelestis Origo Seminibus AEn 6. So that our Poet has conformably seated this Universal Invigorating Spirit in the Sun by the Platonists termed the Sphere of Equality or of the Soul of the World corresponding with the Heart the Vital Center of the Microcosm V. 173. In thy Eternal Course in thy Continual Course For the Sun is not Eternal not so Ancient as Light by some Days but was made in time of which his Motion is the Measure Virgil uses the Adverb AEternùm in the same manner for Continually Glebaque versis AEternum frangenda bidentibus Georg. 2. AEternumque Arida Barce Luc. V. 176. Fixt in their Orb that flies The fixt Stars are not so call'd as if Stationary and Motionless but because moving constantly in the round of their own Sphere without any deviation and thereby distinguish'd from the wandring Planets therefore styled in the following Verse The Five wandring Fires being Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury he having just been speaking of the Sun and Moon that compleat the Septenary V. 178. In Mystick Dance not without Song Pythagoras is vouch'd for the Author of the Musical Motion of the Spheres though misunderstood the Harmony he meant relating to their Proportion and Concinnity rather than their Consonancy Many have endeavoured to find an Agreement with our Earthly Harmony in the Distances and Motions of the Heavenly Spheres Sound being only the Noise of Motion diversly modified And doubtless there are many Proportions among the Stars nearly approaching the Harmonick their benign and favourable Aspects and Conjunctions as also the evil ones do strangely correspond with Concord and Dissonancy But all that we certainly understand is that we cannot sufficiently comprehend and admire the admirable Proportion and Congruity the Regular and uninterrupted Methods and Motions of Nature charming above all the strains of Humane Harmony and obeying his Commands who from the beginning ordered all things in measure number and weight Wisd. 11. Vers. 20. Orpheus his Harp had its seven Strings contrived according to the Number of the Planets which the Poets tell us was the reason his Musick was so Compulsive and Irresistible and he compared the Four Elements and their Harmonious Mixture by which the World is maintain'd in continual Concord to the Tetracordon resembling the vast Universe to the Monocord V. 180. Air and the Elements c. Air and ye the rest of the Elements Fire Earth and Water the Constituents of all Corporeal Beings the eldest Birth of Natures Womb according to Gen. 1. Vers. 1. V. 181. That in Quaternión run c. That in their four-fold Mixture run perpetual Rounds producing divers Forms The Generation of all things is Circular as of Seed an Egg of that a Bird of that Bird Seed again and of that an Egg in a continual round The Quaternion or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the mysterious and much-admired Number of the Pythagoreans It was their most sacred and solemn Oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. in Carm. Aur. â— sware by him who gave my Soul the Quaternion the Fountain of Everlasting Nature It related as some say to the Four Elements the Four Faces of the Moon to the Four first Qualities Heat Cold Dryness and Moisture But the Pythagoreans had it in so high Veneration because it contained all Numbers that is ten for beyond which no Nation Numbers the rest being but Multiplications of this wherefore Four contain all Numbers Quaternion Quaternio Lat. the Number Four à Quatuor Lat. Multiform Multiformis Lat. of divers Fashions and Shape of Multus Lat. many and Forma Lat. shape kind V. 189. Th' uncolour'd Skie The Air which by reason of its thinness clearness and perspicuity is invisible can therefore have no pretence to colour as not being capable to terminate our sight That more impure part of it that moves in the Region of Meteors is of a duskish and dark Complexion near the misty Horizon by reason of the thick Vapours of the Neighbouring Earth at a greater distance thinner Exhalations give it a whiteness and in serene Seasons it is of that we call Skie-Colour but all these are the Tinctures given to the Uncolour'd Air as patcht and drest with Clouds as our Author styles them Virgil seems to have exprest this Uncolour'd Air by Purum Dum se laetus ad auras Palmes agit laxis per Purum immissus habenis Geor. 2. Skie of Scinan Sax. to be bright V. 192. That from Four Quarters blow From the Four Cardinal Points East West North and South which multiplyed by Eight their Collateral and Circular Sub-divisions compleat the Compass with 32 distinct Breaths V. 193. And wave your Tops ye Pines and bow your lofty Heads
Lat. to drive and stick into Intus figere Plagues Of Plaga Lat. a stroke Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Doric 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to strike the Pestilence properly called the Plague seems the more immediate stroke of Gods Vengeance sent from Heaven to sweep Sinners from off the Polluted Earth V. 841. Prostrate Fell'd before him Of Seraphim groveling and over thrown Prostratus Lat. lying all along Of Prosternere Lat. to fell to overthrow V. 845. From the four fold visaged four From the four Cherubims that had each four Faces as at Vers. 753. Visage Fr. the Face Of the Lat. Visus the sight V. 846. Distinct with Eyes Beset with Eyes sprinkled all o'er with Eyes like Stars as at Vers. 755. Distinctus Lat. set full off V. 848. One Spirit in them Ruled One Spirit guided and govern'd both the four faced Cherubim and the living Wheels beset with Starry Eyes Whithersoever the Spirit was to go they went thither was their Spirit to go and the Wheels were lifted up over against them for the Spirit of Life was in the Wheels Ezek. 1. 20. Glared shot out Lightning Book IV. Vers. 402. Pernicicus Book 1. Vers. 282. V. 850. That wither'd all their Strength That blasted all their Might as excessive Heats and scorching Winds kill the Trees by consuming their exhausted moisture Drain'd emptied Of the Fr. Trainer to draw up or out Exhausted quite emptied and worn out Exhaustus Lat. dried up Terraeque marisque Omnibus exhaustos jam casibus omnium egenos AEn 1. V. 854. In mid volie Stopt his Thunder in the midst of its flight Check'd Book III. V. 732. Volie Of Volée Fr. a flight not only or Birds but Arrows and Shot V. 857. A Herd of Goats To which the Wicked are compared by our Saviour in the Description of the last Judgment And he shall set the Sheep on his Right Hand but the Goats on the Left Then shall he say unto them on his Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed c. Matth. 25. 33. and 41. Timerous fearful Of Timidus and Timor Lat. fear V. 861. Rowl'd inward c. Turn'd inward and opened a wide out-let into the empty Deep Gap a hole an opening of the word Gape to stretch the Mouth wide open V. 864. Urged 'em behind Pursued and terrified 'em from behind Urgere Lat. to push to press upon Uâ—gente ruinâ volvitur AEn 10. V. 865. The Verge of Heaven Down from Heavens Borders Verge Book II. V. 1038. V. 868. Heaven ruining from Heaven The Heavenly Angels tumbling headlong down from Heaven Ruinare Lat. to fall down V. 869. Strict Fate Gods unalterable Decree Strict Book II. Vers. 239. V. 873. Anarchie Through his mad misrule Anarchie Book II. Vers. 895. V. 874. Incumberd him So vast a rout and such a huge Confusion disorder'd and disturb'd him Incomber Ingombrare is of the old Fr. Combre now Comble a heap whence it signifies to hinder as heaps of Rubbish that lie in the way do Fraught Book II. Vers. 715. V. 877. The House of Woe and Pain Described by our Saviour by the Worm that dieth not and Fire unquenchable Mark 9. 44 45 48. and also by Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Mat. 25. 30. the last part of which Gnashing of Teeth seems to have given our Poet the Rise for heightning Hell and the Torments of its Fire by the intense extremity of Cold Book II. Vers. 587. A frozen Continent of Whirlwinds and dire Hail c. alluding to Job 24. 19. of which the Latin Translation comes nearer the Original than ours Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis niveum Let him be snatcht from melting Snow to extream Fire V. 879. Her mural Breach The Gap made in her Chrystal Wall Vers. 861. Mural Muralis Lat. belonging to a Wall Of Murus Lat. a Wall V. 884. With Jubile advanc'd Set forward came on with Songs of Joy and great Rejoycing Jubile Of Jubilum Lat. rejoycing Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the year of the Jewish Jubile when every Man returned to his Family and Possession Levir 25. 10. V. 888. He Celebrated He praised and extol'd Celebrated Celebratus Of Celebrare Lat. to Praise and Magnifie Ex illo Celebratus honos AEn 8. V. 894. That thou mayst beware The Reason the Schoolmen give why they believed this dismal downfal of the Rebellious Angels was not unrevealed to Adam to keep him in humble Obedience to his Maker and under the Awe of his Righteous Judgments who spared not the Angels that Sinned but cast them down to Hell 2 Pet. 2. 4. And the Son of Sirach discoursing of Gods dealing with the first Fathers of Mankind has these Words He shewed them Good and Evil. He made an Everlasting Covenant with them and shew'd them his Judgments Eccles. 17. 7. and 12. by which Judgments most Interpreters understand this terrible Revelation of the routed Angels Et Judicia sua ostendit illis Quae Judicia nimirum quibus Deus Revelavit illis transgressionem pessimorum Spirituâ—m quomodo judicaver at eos damnaverat Cathar Comment in Gen. Cap. 1. That the Ruin of these Rebellious Angels was known to the Prophets is plain from Isaiah who denouncing Gods Judgments against the wicked Belteshasar speaks of him as of Satan himself How art thou faln from Heaven Oh Lucifer Son of the Morning Thou hast said in thy Heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Tâ—rone above the Stars of God Isai. 14. 13 14. Our Saviour speaks plainly of this Arch-Rebel Into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Matth. 25. 41. I saw Satan like Lightning fall from Heaven Luk. 10. 18. And he was in the Wilderness forty days tempted of Satan Mark 1. 13. The Angels that kept not their Principality but left their own Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting Chains under Darkness c. Jude 1. 6. V. 903. Bereav'd of Happiness Rob'd of all thy Bliss Bereaved Of the Sax. Bereapan to spoil Reapian Of Rapere Lat. to snatch from V. 906. A despite done A Dishonour and Affront done against God Despit Fr. a Provocation Of the Lat. Despicere to under value to dispise V. 909. Warn thy Weaker Advise thy Wife to have a care Giving Honour unto thy Wife as unto the Weaker Vessel 1 Pet. 3. 7. Ibid. Let it profit thee Profit tibi Lat. of Prodesse to make advantage of Here I must take leave to shew the Latin Translator of our excellent Poet how much Virgil would have assisted him if he had not been too hasty in that noble Description of Satans Roaring Engines hurling linkt Thunderbolts and Iron Hail it begins Vers. 584. Nec mora flammatis Coelum omne ardescere visum est Cardinibus subitâque iterum caligine tectum Amisisse Diem commistis igne tenebris Machina quas raucis incendia caeca volutans Faucibus eructat lacerus mugitibus aether Intonat horrendum Toto ruit
1. cont Jovi Contrary to our Poet's Opinion sufficiently inferrable from Bo. VIII V. 510. To the Nuptial Bowre I led her blushing like the Morn And more plainly Bo. IV. V. 742. Nor Eve the Rites Mysterious of Connubial Love refus'd What ever Hypocrites austerely talk Of Purity and Place and Innocence Our Poet therefore by the Virgin Majesty of Eve means her Comely Blushes proceeding from some Unkindness conceived at his Advice V. 272. With sweet Austere Composure In a more serious yet sweet manner reply'd Austere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. serious grave Composure Order Mood of Componere Lat. to set in order V. 273. Offspring of Heaven and Earth Offspring of God thy maker and of Earth thy mould Gen. 2. 7. V. 278. At shut of Evening Flowers A natural Notation of the Evening the time when Flowers close their sweet-breathing Buds V 289. Misthought A thinking amiss of her Misthought a word seeming coyned by our Poet after the manner of Mistrust Misdeed Mistake c. V. 291. Daughter of God and Man Daughter of God thy maker and of Man the materials Gen. 2. 22. Ibid. Immortal Eve for such thou art from Sin and Blame entire Untainted by Sin and Unblameable Entire Entier Fr. Integer Lat. uncorrupted sound and unviolated by Sin as St. Paul By one man sin enter'd into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 296. Asperses with Dishonour Casts a Disgrace and Disesteem upon the Person tempted for the Temptation presupposes him 〈◊〉 whom the Tryal's made weak and infirm and liable to be prevailed on Asperses Aspergere Lat. to bespatter V. 300. Would'st resent Would'st be very sensible of would'st be extreamly concern'd at of Resentir Fr. to have sense of V. 302. I labour to avert Think not amiss then if I endeavour to prevent such a Disgrace from falling on thee when alone Misdeem judge not ill of of Mis and Deem Deman Sax. to judge To avert Avertere Lat. to put by Affront Bo. I. V. 391. V. 310. Access in every Virtue I from the influence of thy Eyes receive encrease in all the Powers of Soul and Body Access Accessus Lat. Addition Virtue Virtus Lat. Power V. 318. Domestiâ— Adam Careful of his Companion his Spouse from whose Society all Families and the World with them is filled Domestic Domesticus Lat. belonging to a Family of Domus Lat. a House Matrimonial Love as a loving Husband Matrimonialis Lat. of Marriage Lat. Matrimonium V. 333. From his Surmise prov'd false From his Opinion of us mistaken of Surmise Fr. an old disused word V. 336. Without exterior help sustain'd What is Faith Love or nicest Virtue to be valued while untried if not to be maintain'd without assistance of another Unassay'd Inessayè Fr. untry'd Exterior Lat. outward Sustain'd Soustenu Fr. supported of the Lat. Sustinere V. 339. To single or combin'd Let us not suspect our happy State to be left so imperfect and ill assured by God our wise Creator as not to be safe and out of danger when attempted either alone or together Singulus Lat. one Combin'd of Combinare Lat. to joyn together V. 342. Fervently Warmly concernedly of Fervere Lat. to wax warm Deficient Deficiens Lat. wanting V. 352. For what obeys Reason is free God endow'd Man with Free-will to listen to and obey the Dictates of right Reason without which he cannot be Master of his own Actions which are no otherwise his but by Election and Choice manifested and urged by God against Cain If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou do not well sin lieth at the door And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him Gen. 4. 7. V. 353. And still Erect Reason ought to be watchful and standing on her Guard Erectus Lat. heedful V. 359. Firm we subsist c. Faithful thô yet we stand yet it is possible for us to stray Subsistere Lat. to stand to keep ones ground Swerve Swerven Belg. to go astray V. 361. Some specious Object suborn'd Something fair to appearance made use of by our Enemy to impose upon Reason our Guide Specious Speciosus Lat. fair plausible Suborn'd Subornare Lat. to instruct one how to deceive Deception Deceptio Lat. a Cheat. V. 366. Thou sever not If thou depart not from me Sever of the Ital. Scevrare Lat. Separare to separate Attest of Attestari Lat. to witness V. 373. Not Free absents the more For to stay against thy will is worse than thy Absence Absentare Lat. to withdraw V. 376. Thee Patriarch of Mankind So spake Adam the first great Father of Mankind Patriarch Bo. IV. Vers. 762. V. 377. Persisted yet submiss thô last c. But Eve unalter'd in Opinion meekly thus made reply Persisted of Persistere Lat. to stand firm to persist in ones Opinion Submiss Submissus Lat. gentle meek V. 387. Oread or Dryad Of Wood-Nymphs some took care of and were worship'd on the Mountains as the Oreades named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Mountain Quam mille secâ—tae Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades AEn 1. Others were called Dryades the Goddesses of Groves of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Oak She-Divinities that according to Pausanias were not esteem'd Immortal but of a Longevity equal to the Oaks they presided over Dryadum Sylvas saltusque sequamur Geo. 3. V. 388. But Delia's self surpass'd Delia. Diana the Heavenly Huntress Daughter of Jupiter and Latona named Delia of the Island Delos in the Egean Sea Illa pharetram Fert humero gradiensque deas supereminet omnes AEn 1. Borrow'd of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 392. Guiltless of Fire had form'd Such as Art simple and imperfect and which as yet had not profaned the Fire provided Fire which the Poets say Prometheus stole from Heaven Jove's Autbentic Fire Bo. IV. V. 719. was of so great use to Mankind and esteemed so Sacred that to employ it in forging destructive Arms was look'd on as a Profanation and Infection of its Purer Flame Hence the vast Veneration of the Romans for their Vestal Fire one of their Poets tells us Ast homini ferrum Lethale incude nefandâ Produxisse parum est cum rastra sarcula tantum Assueti coquere marris vomere lassi Nescierint primi gladios excudere fabri Juv. Sat. 15. And in the same Satyr speaking of Fire which he esteem'd of Kin to that Pure Etherial Element Hinc gaudere libet quod non violaverit ignem Quem summâ caeli raptum de parte Prometheus Donavit terris Elemento gratulor te Exultare reor Ibid. Rude Lat Rudis imperfect and unpolish'd V. 393. To Pales The Goddess of Shepherds and Pasturage celebrated by Virgil on that account Nunc veneranda Pales magno nunc ore sonandum Geo. 3. V. 394. Pomona when she fled Vertumnus Pomona the Goddess of Gardens Orchards and Fruit courted by many Admirers but obtain'd at last by Vertumnus
grievous and more grating Aggravate Bo. 3. v. 524. Pennance the contraction of Penitence Penitentia Lat. Punishment or the fear of it being the Parent ef Repentance V. 557. Could not abstain Could not forbear Abstain of Abstinere Lat. properly to forbear eating to fast from Delude Bo. 9. v. 639. V. 560. That curl'd Megaera Hung thicker on those tempting Trees than curling Serpents on the dreadful Head of dire Megaera her hissing horrid Hair Megaera one of the three Snaky Sisters Daughters of Acheron and Night-Furies of Hell so invidious and detestable of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to hate Odit ipse pater Pluton odere sorores Tartareae monstrum tot sese vertit in ora Tam saevae facies tot pullulat atra colubris AEn 7. Tot Erynnis sibilat Hydris Tantaque se facies aperit Ibid. Quas Tartaream nox intempesta Megaeram Uno eodemque tulit partu paribusque revinxit Serpentum Spiris AEn 12 Curl'd Megaera Crinita Draconibus ora Met. l. 4. So Medusa's Hair was turn'd into curling Snakes Gorgâ—neum turpes crinem mutavit in Hydros Ibid. V. 562. Bituminous Lake where Sodom flam'd The Lake Asphaltites near which Sodom and Gomorrah burnt by Fire from Heaven Gen. 19. 24. were situated Josephus affirms the Shapes and Fashions of 'em and three other Cities called the Cities of the Plain were to be seen in his Days and Trees loaden with fair Fruit styled the Apples of Sodom rising out of the Ashes which at the first touch dissolved into Ashes and Smoak Bo. V. of the Wars of the Jews c. 5. This Lake is named Bituminous Bituminosus Lat. of Bitumen Lat. a fat clammy Slime gathered on the Lake See Asphaltic Bo. 1. v. 411. V. 563. This moâ—e delusive c. This fair Fruitage was more deceitful and disappointing than Sodom's cheating Apples which only deceiv'd the Touch by dissolving into Ashes but this endured the handling the more to vex and disappoint their Taste by filling the Mouths of the Damned with grating Cinders and bitter Ashes in stead of allaying their scorching Thirst provoking and inflaming it So handsomly has our Author improved their Punishment Gust Taste of Gustus Lat. the pleasure of Tasting V. 567. With spattering Noise As the manner of those is that disgusted by any ill Taste spit out its Cause with a spattering Noise A word coin'd of the Sound thereby made Rejected cast out of Rejicere Lat. to throw out V. 568. Drug'd as oft c. Vex'd as often with hatefullest Distaste Drug'd of the Sax. Drecan to vex to toyl whence a Drudge one employed in the vilest and most loathsome Offices Disrelish Disgust Distaste Bo. 5. v. 305. Illusion Bo. 4. v. 803. V. 572. Laps'd Fall'n Lapsus Lat. Of Labi Lat. to fall V. 578. Tradition they dispers'd They spread abroad some Account among the Gentiles Tradition Traditio Lat. an ancient Account of Tradere Lat. to deliver down as those of the Jews were from Father to Son Dispers'd Bo. 3. v. 54. Heathen the Idolatrous Gentiles of the Sax. Haeden or Ger. Heyden of Heyde Ger. a Heath because when Christianity was received in the great Cities the Heathen practised their wicked Rites in little Villages and Country Obscurities for a long time V. 581. Ophion with Eurynome c. And reported how the Serpent whom they disguised under the Name of Ophion with his Wife Euâ—â—nome that Govern'd far and near was the most ancient of all the Gods and Reign'd on Olympus till driven thence by Saturn and Ops long before Jove their Son was born and Nurs'd in Crete Ophion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Serpent was one of the Titans possess'd of the Empire of all things before Saturn but overthrown by him as he was at last by his Son Jupiter as Isacius reports Eurynome was the Daughter of the Ocean and Consort of Ophion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wide and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Law thence here styled The wide encroaching Eve who by her powerful sway over the Souls and Bodies of her Sons subjected 'em to Sin and Death encroaching and usurping wide on her Posterity involved both in her Crime and Punishment down to her last Descendent Haec arma Mimantis Sustinet hos onerat ramos exutus Opion Claud. de Raptu Proserp l. 3. V. 584. Saturn The Son of Caelus and Vesta espoused his Sister Ops on whom he begot Jupiter named Dictaeus of Dicte a Mountain in Crete Di nempe suâ—s habuere Sorores Sic Saturnus Opim junctam sibi sanguine duxit Met. l. 9. Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro Geo. 4. V. 587. Once Actual When the first fatal Transgression was committed now in Body now personally present Actualis Lat. done ab Agendo V. 588. Habitual Habitant A constant Inhabitant Habitual of Habitus Lat. a custom a constant habit of Body or Mind Habitant Habitans Lat. of Habitare Lat. to dwell to aâ—ide constantly in a place V. 590. Not mounted yet on his pale Horse The first Generations of Men were so vicavious there Longevity being necessary to the Peopling the World that Death seemed as then to walk on foot and follow Sin but slowly He had not those dreadful Executions to do that have since required his mounting on Horse-back as he is described Rev. 6. 8. And behold a pale Horse and his name that sate on him was Death and Hell follow'd with him c. V. 592. Second of Satan sprung Death is said to be the second Offspring of Satan Sin being his first and Death her Son and his therefore styled the Sin-bred Monster V. 596. according to the Holy Writ When lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Jam. 1. 15. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. V. 599. Where most with Ravin I may meet Where I may best find wherewithal to glut my self Ravine of Rapina Lat. Pillage Spoil all Ravenous Creatures being violent and rapacious V. 601. This vast unhide-bound Corps This vast wide Womb of mine Death is so all-devouring that his Body may well be styled Not hide-bound as those Creatures are whose Leanness makes their Skin stick to their Ribs Death on the contrary seems of so loose a Constitution that thô he eats up all things nothing stays with him Maw of the Ital. Magone the Stomach Corps the contraction of Corpus Lat. a Body V. 602. Th' incestuous Mother Sin the Mother of Death by Satan her own Sire Incestucsus Lat. one that has carnal knowledge with a Person within the Degrees forbidden Of Incestare Lat. V. 605. No homely Morsels No course Fare Morsel of Morceau Fr. of Morsus Lat. a bit V. 609. And season him c. Season him with much Sinfulness thy sweetest and most delicious Dish the highest Morsel of Mortality Season Assaissonner Fr. Sasonare Ital. to relish with Salt or Spice V. 611. Or unimmortal
Cloud opposite to him taking its Arch'd Figure from his circular Face is the general Opinion as has before been hinted The cause of its three most distinct Colours is thus assigned It s deep full Red proceeds of the Sun 's bright Beams reflected from the Clouds greatest opacity or thickness The Green of that part next to the most opace and the light Red Puniceus Colour of the thinnest and easiest pierc'd part of the Cloud Vall. de Sac. Phil. c. 9. Triple Book 5. vers 750. V. 897. And call to mind his Covenant And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth Gen. 9. 16. That the Rainbow was seen in the Clouds often before the Deluge is not to be doubted because its Natural Causes were then in being the Sun shining on opposite Clouds But God made choice of it for a sign of his Covenant with Noah and his Posteritp it being naturally the most fit and proper as the Token of decreasing Rain as never to be seen but when the Clouds are thin and the chearful Sun shines on them as Vallesius has well observed c. 9. Those that suppose the Rainbow was at God's Covenant with Noah first set in the Clouds are forc'd to believe that till the 600 years of his Life God had not caused it to rain on the Earth but water'd it with Mists or by overflowing of Rivers as Egypt by the Nile otherwise it must have been there before Of which Opinion among others the Learned Dr. Gregory seems to be ch 23. on Gen. 1. 7. V. 898. Day and Night Seed-time c. While the earth remaineth seed-time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. V. 899. Till Fire purge all things new Refining them like Gold by Fire at the last Day Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 7. 12 83. This last Purgation by Fire is mistaken by Mr. Hog and odly render'd Lustralibus undis Cleansing Waters contrary to the plain words of our Poet and the express Promise made by Covenant with Noah NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK XII Verse 1. BAtes at Noon Refreshes himself with necessary Food To bate or rather bait is to feed of Baisse Belg. Meat Noon Ital. Nona Mid-day à nonâ diei horâ The ninth hour of the day at which the Romans used to eat Interpose Bo. 2. v. 737. Paus'd Bo. 5. v. 64. The first Five Verses of this Book are omitted by Mr. Hog in which thô the Simile be modern yet is it neither mean unseemly nor untractable in turning As one who in his Journey bates at Noon Thô bent on speed so here th' Archangel paus'd Betwixt the World destroy'd and World restor'd If Adam aught perhaps might interpose Then with Transition sweet new speech resumes Interrumpit iter medio ceu sole viator Accelerans licet ut victu vinoque refectus Sit potis exercere viam hîc Archangelus haesit Inter demersum medius mundumque renatum Forte rogaturo ceu responsurus Adamo Deinde habili nexu seriemque verba resumpsit V. 5. Then with Transition c. Then handsomly passing on the Archangel renew'd his Discourse Transition Transitio Lat. passing over or forward of Transire Lat. to go over used here for passing from one thing to another in discourse Relate Bo. 1. v. 746. Sours or Source Bo. 11. v. 169. V. 18. Labouring the Soil Ploughing the Earth Tilling the Ground of Laborare Lat. to take Pains with Hence Country Employments and Rural Business are by Virgil stiled Hominumque boumque labores Versando terram experti Geo. 1. Soil or Soyl Solum Lat. the Ground Ibid. Reaping plenteous Crop Gathering happy Harvests of Corn Wine Oyl Plenteous abounding of Plenus Lat. full Crop of the Verb to crop to gather Lat. Carpere Wine Vinum Lat. Oyl Oleum Lat. Paternal Bo. 6. v. 749. V. 26. With fair Equality c. Who not content to live in that equal condition which becomes Brethren That all Primitive and Natural Power was Paternal that is the Authority Fathers of Families had over their Descendents is undoubted whence the Head of every Tribe was its Patriarch governing all its Particulars for their common Peace and mutual Support according to the Dictate of right Reason the Law of Nature under whom all the easie Subjects were of the same common size and equal condition as being Brethren Which is evident from Holy Writ where Noah who was the Universal Patriarch of Mankind after the Flood as Adam was before it denounc'd the Dominion of Brethren over one another as a Curse on the Posterity of wicked Cham. Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren Gen. 9. 25. Equality AEqualitas Lat. likeness of Condition Fraternal Fraternalis Lat. of a Brother V. 27. Will arrogate Dominion Will take upon himself undeserv'd Power Not deserv'd by him as more Worthy Wise or Virtuous than his Brethren over whom he shall usurp this unjust Authority Arrogate Arrogare Lat. to lay claim to to assume Dominion Book 2. v. 978. V. 29. Concord and Law of Nature Utterly displace peaceful Agreement founded on Nature's Laws The Law of Nature is thas Rule of Rectitude which God has implanted in the very Nature of Man resulting from his Reason known to all and obliging all Mankind Lex est naturae vis mens ratio prudentis Juris atque Injuriae regula Non scripta lex sed nata quam non didicimus accepimus legimus verum ex naturà ipsâ arripuimus hausimus expressimus ad quam non decti sed facti non instituti sed imbuti sumus As Cicero excellently Pro Mile Dispossess Desposseder Fr. to put out of Possession of the Privative Dis and Possidere Lat. to enjoy to use Concord Bo. 2. v. 498. V. 30. Hunting and Men not Beasts This proud ambitious Man is by Holy Scripture stiled A mighty hunter Gen. 10. 9. Hunting being a Preparatory Exercise both as to the Fatigue and Fury of the War a Preliminay to the slaughter of Mankind by that of Wild Beasts As Xenophon observes in the first Book of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 34. Before the Lord Gen. 10. 9. So famous for his Power that he became Proverbial Most Interpreters take the words Before the Lord in the worst sense as our Author does In despite of Heaven others expound 'em Under Heaven from Heaven claiming second Sovereignty taking upon himself all Authority next under God Nimrod says St. Hierom arripuit insuetam primus in populos tyranidem In traditi Hebr. in Gen. Despite Bo. 10. v. 1044. Tyrannous Tyrannicus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
are 1 Cor. 3. 16. 17. Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost that is in you 1 Cor. 6. 19. Now that these living Temples stand founded on their own Faith not that of the Church of Rome as St. Paul Thou standest by Faith Rom. 9. 20. By Faith ye stand 2 Cor. 1. 24. is manifest in that Glorious Catalogue of the Faithful Patriarchs Heb. 11. Manifested by their Works By Works a Man is justified and not by Faith only Faith by Works being made perfect Jam. 2. 24. 22. V. 530. Who against Faith and Conscience can be Infallible Who can pretend to Infallibility over the Belief and Consciences of Christians Their Consciences bearing witness and their Thoughts accusing or else excusing one another for which reason they are charged by the Apostle To hold the Mystery of the Faith in a pure Conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. Independent of Rome's Infallible Chair Infallibilis Lat. unerring undeceivable V. 534. In outward Rites and specious Forms In Ceremonies Rituals gaudy Processions and fair shews Rites Bo. 10. v. 994. Specious Speciosus Lat. beautiful goodly V. 536. Truth bestuck with Slandrous Darts Truth shall be hardly to be found on Earth loaded with Lies and foul Aspersions disgraced with the Reproaches of Heretic and Schismatic Puritane c. Malignant Bo. 10. v 602. Benigne Bo. 8. v. 492. Slandrous Reproachful of Esclandre Fr. Lat. Scandalum disrepute V. 540. The day of Respiration to the just The day of ease and comfort to Gods People in which the Righteous shall take Breath releast both from the Persecutions of Sin and Wicked Men When God shall wipe away all Tears from their Eyes Revel 7. 17. Respiratio Lat. a breathing refreshing comfort V. 547. To dissolve Satan with his perverted world To destroy the Kingdom of Satan When the judgment of this world shall be and the Prince of this world shall be cast out John 12. 31. When the Prince of this world shall be judged John 16. 11. V. 543. From the Conflagrant Mass c. Then from the flaming Globe of all the World on Fire at once Kept in store and reserv'd unto Fire against the day of Judgment and Perdition of Ungodly Men 2 Pet. 3. 7. Shall raise new Heavens and a new Earth in which dwelleth Righteousness v. 7. of which before V. 553. Seer blest measur'd this Tranfient World How soon has thy Prophesie happy Foreseer of all things to come run through this fading world The Prophets were called Seers as Gad David's Seer 2 Sam. 24. 11. from their foresight of Futurity The Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to see because God revealed to them things afar of in dark Futurity Prediction Praedictio Lat. foretelling Prophesie Transient Transiens Lat. passing away as the world does 1 John 2. 17. V. 555. Till time stand fixt Till time have finisht his Race and stand still Till time always in motion and the measure of it stand fixt and move no more firm and fixt in unalterable Eternity V. 567. By weak subverting worldly strong c. God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the weak things to confound the things which are mighty 1 Cor. 1. 27. Subverting over-turning Subvertere Lat. V. 570. Is fortitude to highest victory That to suffer for Christ and his Truth is the noblest Courage and the most considerable Conquest Such as manifested it self in St. Stephen the Protomartyr Acts 6. 8. Full of Faith and Power V. 571. Death the Gate of Life The entrance by which we are admitted into Everlasting Life Death being swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 54. V. 584. Charity the Soul of all the rest Add to your Faith Virtue and to Virtue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance to Temperance Patience and Charity 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. Charity by name to come so to be named when the world encreased found objects for it Charitas Lat. is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. good-will whose excellencies are set forth 1 Cor. 13. Now abideth Faith Hope Charity these three but the greatest of these is Charity v. the last V. 589. From this top of Speculation From this visionary heighth from this high Hill of Prophesie and Prediction from which I have given thee a clear prospect of what most considerable to Mankind shall come to pass to the Worlds end Speculation Speculatio Lat. a watching on a Tower or high place thence a discovery therefore applied to the Prophets in the sacred Page who are call'd Seers and Watchmen Speulatores of Specula Lat. a Watch Tower Son of Man I have made the a Watchman to the House of Israel Ezek. 3. 17. more exactly described chap. 33. 3 4 5 6 7. V. 590. The hour precise exacts our parting hence The appointed hour is come that requires and presses our departure from Paradise Precise Praecisus Lat. cut of ended and determined of Praecidere Lat. to cut of Exacts of Exigere Lat. to require to command strictly V. 595. With gentle Dreams have calm'd For I with pleasing Dreams betokening Happiness have quieted her troubled Breast have tuned her Spirits and inclined her will to meek submission and surrender of her self and this her Paradise Calm'd Calmer Fr. to appease to quiet Compos'd setled of Componere Lat to order to settle Vix Defessa senem passus componere membra Geor. 4. Of Proteus setling himself to sleep Portending Bo. 6. v. 578. Unanimous Bo. 4. v. 736. V. 611. Dreams Advise Inform instruct of Aviser Fr. to Counsel give advise to That God often revealed his Will and signified his pleasure to his Prophets and others in Dreams and Visions of the Night is remarkable through the whole Tract of Holy Writ If there be a Prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a Vision and will speak unto him in a Dream Numb 12. 6. Propitious Bo. 5. v. 507. Presaging Bo. 1. v. 627. V. 616. With thee to go is to stay here c. To go along with thee is as pleasant as to stay here But to stay here without thee would be as sad as to go hence against my will Thou and where ere thou art is Paradise to me V. 625. Now to nigh th' Archangel stood Our Poet observes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Decorum to the last degree making our first Parents such perfect Patterns of Modesty as to forbear their Endearments though but in Words at the Angels approach V. 629. Gliding Meteorous as Evening Mist Sliding ore the Surface as a Mist at Evening that rises from a Fuming River slides ore the moist Marshy Ground its Nursery Meteorous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. high quick sliding along insensibly silent and swift as a Mist does over the Ground aloft as Homer useth the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gliding of Glisser Fr. to slide or slip swifty along Marish or Marsh. Marais Fr. a moist moorish Ground of Mariscus Lat. Rushes commonly growing there Brandisht Shaken Waved round Bo. 2. v. 786. Blazed Bo. 6. 18. V. 634. Which with Torrid heat c. Which with roasting heat and fiery vapour like the scorching Air of Sun Burnt Afric began to inflame that moderate Climate Torrid Torridus Lat. burnt scorched whence the Torrid Zone so named of its suppos'd insupportable heat Quarum una corusco Semper sole rubens torrida semper ab igni Geor. 1. V. 635. The Libyan Air adust The burning Air of scorching Africa Libya so named of Libya the Daughter of Epaphus was by the Antients used to express Africa and was the most Southern part of the World known to them though properly it is but a part of it now known by the Name of the Kingdom and Desert of Barca Mundus premitur Libyae devexus in austros Geor. 1. Adust Adustus Lat. scorcht burnt V. 637. In either hand c. The Angel led our Parents loath to depart from their beloved Seat in each hand which the Designer of the Copper Plate has not well exprest representing him shoving them out as we say by Head and Shoulders Lingering staying delaying of the Ger. Leangern to delay and protract the time V. 640. To the subjected Plain To the Valley that lay below it Subjected of Subjicere Lat. to put under V. 643. Wav'd over by that flaming Brand O're which God's flaming Sword made many fiery Circles Brand of the Fr. Brandon or Belg. Brand a Torch a Fire-Brand of Brande Belg. to burn Wav'd Bo. 5. v. 193. FINIS