Winds Heyl. Geog. Ibid. Their Cane Wagons Their Carriages made of Canes and therefore the lighter Pliny tells us there were in India Arundines tantae proceritatis ut singula internodia alveo navigabili ternos interdum homines ferant l. 7. c. 2. V. 440. So on this Windy Sea of Land Beaten by Eternal Storms and Tempests The bare outside of this World that seem'd Firm Land imbosom'd without Firmament Uncertain which in Ocean or in Air. As described V. 75. Bo. 3. From the Chineses sailing in their light Waggons over Land he brings the Comparison up and calls this cruel stormy Climate A Windy Sea of Land V. 445. Like AEreal Vapours Like Mists arising in the Air light and empty and therefore easily mounting aloft The Philosophers distinguish a Vapour from an Exhalation this being the Offspring of the Earth as that of the Water yet both convertible into Air or Water the Word is used promiscuously by Virgil Lentusque carinas est vapor for Fire AEn 5. Volat vapor ater ad auras of boyling Water AEn 7. AEreal Aëreus Lat. of the Air and thence any thing that riseth up into it hence the Cranes are called AEriae Geor. 1. and the Alpes AErias by the same Author from their high situation Geor. 3. V. 446. Transitory Short-lived trivial Transitorius Lat. of short stay and duration that quickly pass away of Transire Lat. to go by Vain Vanus Lat. empty foolish false V. 452. Of painful Superstition Superstitio Lat. a vain Esteem and Reverence of that which deserves none Will-worship of Saints c. not required at our hands which the easie Folly of some Men and the cunning Knavery of others have imposed on great part of the World deservedly called Painful because the deluded Votaries take so much pains in Fastings Scourgings Processions Pilgrimages in vain and to no purpose Our Author seems to have had the advice of St. Paul to the Colossians in his thoughts Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels c. Which things have indeed a shew of Wisdom in will-worship and humility and neglecting the Body not in any honour to the satisfying the flesh Coloss. 2. v. 18 and 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by us well translated Will-worship such as the vain Devotions of fantastic Zealots choose is by the Latin Translation rendred Superstitio which among the Heathens was an excess beyond their established Religion thô Idolatrous Non haec solennia nobis Has ex more dapes hanc tanti Numinis aram Vana superstitio veterumque ignara Deorum Imposuit AEn 8. V. 454. Fit Retribution The just Reward a Recompence as vain and em pty as their idle Adorations according to their Fopperies And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads Judg. 9. 57. according to his most exact and adequate Retributions Retributio Lat. a Return a Repayment Reward of Retribuere Lat. to restore to make amends V. 455. All the Unaccomplish'd All the imperfect unfinish'd Works of Nature such are Abortive Abortivus Lat. for any thing born dead or cast out of the Womb imperfect and before due time Monstrous Monstrosus Lat. any thing contrary to Nature exceeding the common in size parts or proportion Unkindly mixt begotten by different kinds as the unnatural Mixtures of Men and Beasts like the Fabulous Minotaure Unaccomplish'd Inaccompli Fr. Incompletus Lat. unfulfilled V. 457. Fleet hither Swim and slide hither of the Lat. Fluitare to glide as Rivers do thence to wander Dissolv'd Dissolutus Lat. dead loosed from the Ligatures that tye Life together Till final Dissolution until utter Destruction overtake 'em at last V. 459. Not in the Neighbouring Moon In the Moon of all the Planets the nearest Neighbour to the Earth as before Bo. 2. V. 1053. This Pendant World in bigness like a Star Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon Bold and prying Philosophy has assigned the Moon the Mother of Moisture and Mutation for the Receptacle of monstrous Births Embryo's and Creatures imperfectly and unkindly mixt our Author rather supposes her Silver Fields Peopled with Saints removed thither or Inhabited by Spirits of a kind and make between Angels and Men inferiour to the first and transcending the latter V. 460. Those Argent Fields Since the Discoveries made in the Moon of vast Provinces Lakes Woods Valleys Caves c. or something very like them by the Optic Glasses invented by Galilaeus and Kepler and the manifestation of three or four Planets moving about Jupiter within few Degrees of him many do not only fancy the Moon to be another World whose Globe appears so very like that of our Earth but that there may be many other Worlds as well in the Stars as in the Sun himself nor it is easie to disprove the Opinion of those who imagine that this our World does as officiously by turns enlighten the Moon and shine on her as she lends her borrowed Light to us Argent Fields Silver of Argenteus Lat. of the Moon 's faint white Complexion Argentum Lat. Silver of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. White V. 461. Translated Saints Removed thither from this lower World Translatus Lat. of Transferre Lat. to carry over V. 462. Betwixt the Angelical c. Those that please themselves with a Plurality of Worlds bring this Argument to support their Imaginations that there seems wanting in this lower World many Degrees of Beings that between Angels and Men divers ranks and kinds of living Creatures by our Poets styled Middle Spirits inferiour to the Angelic Agility and Purity but surpassing the grossness of Human Debility might be placed and another Set inserted between the Rational and Animal Life as also between Plants and other mixt Beings all which being not to be found in this World they suppose there are divers others or at least one more in which all these seeming Deficients are supplied V. 463. Hither of ill-joyn'd Sons c. Hither not into the Neighbouring Moon but unto the barren stormy back-side of the World first of all the Giants came from the old World the Offspring of the Sons of God ill-joyned with the Daughters of Men Gen. 6. 2. V. 464. Those Giants came from the old World destroyed by the Floud The Giants came whose Oppression Pride Tyranny and all manner of Impiety were the Provocations of God's Vengeance poured out on all the Inhabitants of the Earth by the Deluge as is implied by Job 26. 5. where the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is better Translated Giants as usually Deut. 2. 11. 2 Sam. 21. v. 16 and 18. then Dead things Rapha or the Giant of Gath with his three Sons is Recorded 1 Chron. 20. v. 4. to the end the last of which is according to the usual Hebraism named A Man of Measure that is of mighty Stature That the general size of Mankind in the vigorous Youth of Nature before the Flood was superiour to that of their Successors is
heavens Psal. 148. 4. To this sense our Poet agrees and thus infers that as God built the Earth and founded it on Waters stretched out the earth above the waters Psal. 136. 6. By the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth consisting out of the water and in the water 2 Pet. 3. 5. So also he establish the whole Frame of the Heavenly Orbs in a calm Crystalline Sea surrounding it lest the Neighbourhood of the unruly Chaos Bo. II. Vers. 960. or as others the furious Conflict of contesting Winds should disturb it But all search in Works so wonderful so distant and undiscernable as well as undemonstrable is quite confounded Circumfluous Waters that flow round about it Circumfluus Lat. Circumfluous Humour Ultima possedit solidumque coercuit Orbem Met. 1. Crystalline Bo. III. Vers. 482. V. 275. Chorus Lat. Quire and for that repeated part of a Song in which all the Performers joyn V. 277. Embryon immature The substance of the Earth was made but still lay in the dark Womb of many Waters and like an imperfect Creature inclosed and hid appeared not Embryon Bo. II. V. 900. Immature Immaturus Lat. unripe like a Creature yet unfinish'd in the Womb unfit for Birth a Metaphor from Green Fruit. Involv'd Involutus Lat. propt up V. 279. Main Ocean flow'd Who cover'dst it the Earth with the Deep as with a Garment the Waters stood above the Mountains Psal. 104. 6. V. 280. With Prolific Humour With fruitful Moisture Humidity being the Subject and as it were the Mother of all Generation Prolificus Lat. fruitful V. 280. Fermented the Great Mother Stirred up and excited the Earth the Universal Mother leaven'd and swell'd her filled with enlivening Moisture to conceive and bring forth her innumerable Offspring Fermented of Fermentare Lat. to puff up rise or heave as Dow does when leaven'd the main Ocean covering all the Earth did with its natural Saltness and Acidity provoke stir up and stimulate the soften'd Earth into Conception Fermentum nihil aliud est quam penetrantissima seu spirituosissima quaedam substantia alterationum mutationumque variarum Parens Satiate Bo. I. V. 179. Genial Bo. IV. V. 712. V. 284. Into one place Gen. 1. 9. Into their proper place the Sea as V. 10. the one great and most considerable Congregation of the Waters not but that many were received into the Earth's vast hollows Earth and Water making but one Globe whose Center is the same with that of the World V. 286. The Mountains emergent Rising up out of the Waters Of Emergere Lat. called Tumid Hills from their bulk of Tumidus Lat. swoln Jussit extendi campos subsidere valles Fronde tegi silvas lapidosos surgere montes Met. 1. V. 290. Capacious Bed Fit to contain Of Capax Lat. vast Receptacle of Waters Le lict dune Riviere The Bed or Channel of a River V. 291. With glad Precipitancy The Waters ran down from the haughty Hills to the wide humble Valleys with glad haste their natural Tendency Praecipitantia Lat. a fall from a high place V. 292. Uproul'd as drops on Dust c. Sinking down in vast Circles as Water falling on much Dust casts it self into round drops desirous by drawing it self into that circular most perfect form to preserve its native Purity from the foul Invasion Conglobing a Military Metaphor from Soldiers casting themselves into a Ring when on all sides beset V. 294. Such flight Such speed the Almighty Command imposed on the swift Floods At thy Rebuke they fled at the voice of thy Thunder they hasted away they go up by the Mountains and down by the Valleys unto the place which thou hast appointed for them Psal. 104. 7 8. V. 299. With Torrent Rapture With headlong Fall Torrent Bo. VI. Vers. 830. Rapture of Rapere Lat. to snatch away V. 302. With Serpent error wandring c. Or wandring round about creeping to and fro like the turnings and windings of Rivers in and out Of Serpere Lat. to creep Errour of Error Lat. a wandring of Errare to go out of the way V. 303. Oose deep Channels wore And on the soft yielding Slime and Mud wore their easie way Oose is the soft Mud and Soil at the bottom of Rivers Channel whence our Kennel of Canalis Lat. a Water-pipe called their Humid Train their watry Course V. 307. The great Receptacle of Congregated The vast Spaces that receive the assembled Waters he called Seas Receptaculum Lat. any thing that contains another Congregated of Congregare Lat. to gather into a Herd V. 310. The verdant Grass The green Grass Verdant of Verdoyant Fr. of Viridare Lat. to grow green V. 312. Whose Seed is in her self Gen. 1. 11. seems to imply that there is no Herb or Plant growing out of the Earth that has not its proper Seed when some as Mushroms and Fern and divers others either have none at all or so small that they are undiscoverable but most probable it is that God created only the most excellent which were to be perpetuated by their Seed but the less noble and such as out of a meer mixture of the Elements might in their Seasons spring up as being created in their Causes needed not his particular Command as amongst the Animals Mice Worms and Flies capable of being from the corruption of other Creatures Of the Spontaneous Productions of the Earth the Heathen Poets had some smattering Ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta nec ullis Saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus Met. 1. V. 314. Desert and bare Wild unfurnished Of Desertus Lat. forsaken as all Deserts are because bare and barren V. 321. The Corny Reed embattled c. The horny Reed stood upright among the undergrowths of Nature like a Grove of Spears or a Battalion with its Pikes aloft Corneus Lat. of or like Horn. Tumulus quo cornea summo Virgulta densis hastilibus horrida myrtus AEn 3. V. 323. With frizled Hair implicit The Bush with his frizled Locks intangled Frizled of Frizer Fr. to turn in curls Implicit Implicitus Lat. entangled of Implicare to twist V. 325. Gemm'd their Blossoms Put forth their Blossoms of Gemmare Lat. to bud forth and rive Blossoms are called Gemmae Lat. V. 333. A dewy Mist went up c. For the Lord had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground but there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground Gen. 2. 5 6. V. 337. On the green Stemm On the green Stalk Stemm of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. so signifying Hence Stemmata the Stocks and Originals of Families branching into their Genealogies Stemmata quid faoiunt Quid prodest Pontice longo Sanguine censeri Juv. V. 341. For Signs c. Gen. 1. 14. Divers are the Interpretations of these Words some understand 'em of the Solemn Feasts and New Moons celebrated under the Mosaic Law Others for Signs
wasted Sons of Cain exhausted by their vicious Intemperance that from the mixture of the Godly and goodly Sons of Seth with the Debauch'd Daughters of Men sprang a Race more Robust and Mighty than their decay'd Pregenitors esteem'd Giants being as perverse and wicked cruel and bloody as strong potent and able of Body which our Author calls Prodigious Births for the enormity both of their Bodies and Minds mighty and malicious Atchiev'd Bo. 2. v. 364. V. 700. The Seventh from thee Enoch That is in the Holy Linage of which our Saviour was to come Adam Seth Eâ—os Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Enoch also the seventh from Adam Prophesied of these things Jude 5. 14. Gen. 5. 19. and Luk. 3. 37. 38. Rapt Raptus Lat. snatch'd away V. 703. The Brazen Throat of War The Trumpets Wars hoarse voice were heard no more Trumpets and Instruments used to incite Men to Battle were usually made of Brass AEre ciere viros martemque accendere cantu AEn 6. Jollity Jolieté Fr mirth Prostituting Prostituere Lat. to become common V. 717. Where passing fair c. Where any extraordinary Beauty enticed 'em Passing fair that exceeded the ordinary as if surpassing V. 719. A Reverend Sire Noah who found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. V. 724. To Souls in Prison c. By whom our Saviour Preach'd to the Spirits in Prison bound and chain'd under the dark Delusions of Sin which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. V. 730. Measured by Cubit Noah's Ark The length shall be 300 cubits Gen. 5. 15. Cubit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the length from the Elbow to the end of the middle Finger generally V. 735. Came sevens and Pairs Seven of the clean Beasts such as were used in Sacrifice that Noah might have at least an odd one to offer in grateful Thanksgiving for his Deliverance And two of beasts not clean Gen. 7. 2. Gen. 8. 20. Insect Bo. 4. v. 704. V. 737. God made fast the Door And the Lord shut him in Gen. 7. 16. His three sons and their four wives v. 13. V. 738. The South Wind rose and with black Wings Madidis notus evolat alis Terribilem piceà tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbis canis fluit unda capillis Fronte sedent nebulae rorant pennaeque sinusque Met. l. 1. V. 740. To their Supply To their Aid and Encrease Of Suppléer Fr. to furnish to store Dusk of Duster Ger. dark Alimentaque nubibus addunt Ibid. V. 743. Like one dark Ceeling stood The Heavens overcast like one great cloudy Cieling shew'd Ceeling or Cieling of the Ital. Cielo Lat. Caelum and from thence any lofty Roof that interposes between us and it V. 746. With beaked Prow c. With its pointed Prow ran a-tilt o'er the Waves Beaked of Bec Fr. a Bird's Bill Prow Proüe Fr. It. Proda Lat. Prora Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Head of a Ship Tilting moving to and fro of Tealtrian Sax. to shake as Tilters do their Launces V. 747. All Dwellings else Pressaeque labant sub gurgite turres Met. 1. V. 750. Sea without Shoar Omnia pontus erant deerant quoque littora ponto Ibid. Stabled Stabulare Lat. to house Cattle Imbark'd Embarqué Fr. on board V. 756. Depopulation An universal Dispeopling of all the World at once Depopulatio Lat. V. 765. Each Day 's Lot enough c. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Matth. 6. 34. Lot chance share V. 767. The Burden of many Ages Those Evils that by the Ordinance of Heaven and God's Dispensations are to be Punishments of many Generations yet to come do all this minute at once fall heavy upon me my Foreknowledge affording 'em untimely Birth to torture me before they are in being with the most cruel killing Thought that one Day they most certainly must be Dispens'd design'd of Dispensare Lat. to dispose Abortive Bo. 2. v. 442. V. 775. In Apprehension then in Substance The Notion and Foreknowledge of an Evil that certainly will come to pass will be as painful as the feeling it tormenting us by advance often for once Apprehensio Lat. Conceit knowledge V. 779. Wandring that watry Desert Wandring o'er that watry Wilderness that yields no supply Desert Bo. 7. v. 314. Quibus unda pepercit Illos longa domant inopi jejunia victu Met. 1. V. 795. Hostile Deeds in Peace Wrong and Oppression that often are the Offspring of Luxurious Peace Hostile Hostilis Lat. of Enmity V. 802. Worldly and dissolute Worldly or wantonly Dissolutus Lat. debauch'd or loose of Life Practise learn Practiquer Fr. Praxis Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Exercise V. 807. The only Son of Light c. A Graphic Description of Righteous Noah Derided scorn'd Bo. 2. v. 191. V. 818. A wondrous Ark Of Arca Lat. a Chest any close and capacious hollow in which things are kept safe Quod arceat fures says Varro V. 820. Devote to universal Ruck The World design'd for universal Deluge destin'd universally to be drown'd Rack should have been printed Wrack implying the general Punishment by the Flood wherein the whole World at once suffered Shipwrack Devote Book 3. vers 208. V. 822. Select for Life Chosen by God's great Goodness to be saved from the general Destruction Select Bo. 8. v. 513. V. 823. All the Cataracts of Heaven All Heaven's Flood-gates were set open called by Moses The windows of Heaven Gen. 7. 11. of which the most reasonable account is That the middle Region of the Air the Generative Womb of rain-Rain-water was against the Day of that dismal Deluge stored with vast quantities of Vapours and multitudes of black thick Clouds which being converted into Water came rushing down like so many tumbling Torrents falling from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word interpreted Windows and Cataracts seems to belong to the Bed-chambers of the Rain since used in other places of Scripture in relation to it as 2 King 7. 2. and by Malachi Prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing c. c. 3. v. 10. meant of moderate Rain and seasonable Showers Cataracts Bo. 2. v. 176. V. 825. The Fountains of the Deep The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Moses All the fountains of the great deep Gen. 7. 11. By which thô most Commentators understand the vast Abyss and General Assemblies of Waters contain'd in the Earth's many and mighty Caverns the sourse and support of the Seas and which in the days of the Deluge being let loose heav'd 'em above and beyond all their Bounds yet divers of the Fathers by this Great Deep take the Waters above the Firmament mentioned Gen. 1. 7. to be meant and that without their spoughting down their Chrystalline Cataracts there could not have been by whatsomever quantities of Rain or condensation of the Aâ—rial Region so vast
s'inalza O'l mago Atlante Ch'anzi lui non paresse un picciol colle Si la gran fronte e ie gran corna estâ—lle c. V. 202. Th' Ocean Stream The Sea the vast Mass of Water that encompasseth the Earth and with it makes one Globe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Oceaâ—i fluenta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 203. On the Norway Foam On the German Ocean that washeth Norway on the West a Kingdom of great Extent on the North-West Shoar of Europe reaching from the entrance of the Baltick-Sea almost to the North-Cape about 1300 Miles long and 250 broad Foam for the Foaming Sea as Adnixi torquent spumas caerula vâ—rruâ—t AEn 111. Et spumas salis aere ruebant AEn 1. They cut through the Salt Foam with their Brazen Prows V. 204. The Pilot of some Pilot the Steersman he that takes the chief Care of the Sailing part of a Ship from the Bel. Piilen to sound to Fathom and Loot Lead One that sounds the Shallows Many Sea-Terms are Dutch borrow'd of the Saxons Belgians and Cimbrians being Maritime Nations Ibid. Night-founder'd Skiff Some little Boat whose Pilot dares not proceed in his course for fear of the dark Night a Metaphor taken from a founder'd Horse that can go no further or Night-founder'd in danger of sinking at Night from foâ—dre Fr. to sink to the bottom the meaning of a Ships foundring at Sea I prefer the former as being our Authors aim Skiff from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little Boat V. 205. Deeming some Island Judging it to be an Island Fr. Isle and both from Iâ—sula land surrounded by the Sea As Seamen tell As Seafaring-Men are used to relate among the other Wonders of their Voyages Words well added to obviate the Incredibility of calling Anchor on a Whale a Floating Delos which if any mistaken Pilot ever did he might well wish for the delaying Morn for doubtless he underwent a tossing and tempestuous Night V. 206. With fixed Anchor With his Anchor sticking fast in his Back all armed with Skales Anchora Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acurvitate Ibid. Skaly Rind In his tough Hide covered all o'er with Scales Fr. Escailles Rind is properly the Bark of a Tree yet not unapplicable to the Scaly Skin of this armed Monster especially if it originally be from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 corium Job describing him says of his Scales The Majesty of 'em is like strong Shields they are sure sealed c. Job 41. 6. V. 207. Moors by his side under the Lee Makes fast to his side with Anchors and Cables to keep him off the Leeshore to which the Wind drives him Moor of the Fr. Marer and this of Mare the Sea to fix himself to take a place for a Ship to ride in The Lee from A'l'Eau Fr. is the verging or inclining of a Vessel either by Wind or the setting of the Tyde towards the Shore the Water naturally tending thither as higher than the Land and falling down to it V. 208. Night invests the Sea While Night covers and overcasts the Sea with her dark Mantle Fr. Investir to cover to enclose as Garments do Rui Oceano Nex Involvens umbrâ magnâ terramque Polumque AEn 11 Nox ruit fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis AEn â— All exact Night-Pieces yet is this one word Invests 〈…〉 V. 214. Reiterated Crimes Repeated Sins committed o'er again Reitero Lat. to do over again V. 220. Treble Confusion Threefold Confusion that is manifold Vengeance Wrath and Confusion Triple Fr. Lat. Triplex V. 222. His mighty Stature His vast Bulk of Proportion and Size huge and extraordinary Statura Lat. Bigness or height of Body V. 223. Driven backwards slope c. On either side of him the Flames forc'd backwards slant of their Pointed Wreathes Slope raise sidelong obliquely indirectly Ibid. Their Pointing Spires Their Curling Wreathes that end in Points Spire from Spira Lat. as that from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any thing that turns round and fetcheth a Compass well applyed to Flame whose curling Motion rises Circular ending in a Pyramid Point which has its Denomination of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fire Spira is used by Virgil for the Gyres and Twistings of Serpents Spirisque ligant ingentibus AEn 11. V. 224. Rowl'd in Billows c. The Flaming Flood by Satans motion in raising of himself was beaten backwards into Fiery Billows that on each side rowl'd over one another leaving betwixt 'em a most dreadful Valley Vale a diminitive of Valley from Vallis Lat. V. 225. Then with expanded c. Then with his out-stretch'd Wings he takes his flight on high oppressing sore the smoaky Clime that ne'er yet felt such weight Expanded Lat. Expansus spread stretch'd out V. 226. Incumbent Lying leaning heavily upon Lat. incumbens from incumbo Ibid. Dusky Air Obscure smoaky from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. shadowy dark V. 129. With solid as the c. If that may be call'd Land that always burn'd with firm as the Lake burn'd with fluid Fire Solid Solidus Lat. firm substantial Liquid liquidus Lat. melting moist running Lake Lacus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fissura a Pool or deep place always full of Water V. 230. And such appear'd in Hue And such for Colour seem'd Hue or Hew a Sax. word And such for Colour shewed as when the Strength Of Wind pent under Ground removes a Hill Rent from Pelorus or the ragged side Of Roaring Etna whose wide Womb well stor'd With Matter fit to burn thence catching Fire Heighten'd with Flaming Sulphur Wing the Winds And leave a Boyling Bottom Clouded o'er With stinking Fumes V. 231. Subterranean Wind Bred or imprison'd underground Subterraneus Lat. under-ground from sub and terra Transports Carries forces away Transporto Lat. to carry from one place to another V. 232. Pelorus A Promontory of Sicily now Cape di Fare about a Mile and a half from Italy whence Virg. Augustâ à sede Pelori AEn 3. V. 233. Thundring AEtna A Mountain on the East of Sicily now Mont Gibel often belching out Fire and Smoak and sometimes casting forth huge Stones with mighty Noise well deserving the Epithet of Thundring which Virgil also applies to it Horrificis juxta tonat AEtna ruinis AEn 3. This Mountain has made nine several Fiery Eruptions of which the most dreadful was that in the Year 1669 when four Torrents of liquid Fire ran down its sides through the Fields a Mile into the Sea and there maintain'd their Fury a long time unextinguish'd Satan spitting Fire is by Tasso compared to this AEtna which our Poet does apply much better to his Place than Person Qual ' i fumi sulpâ—urei infiammati Escon di Mongibello e'l puzzo e'l tuono Tal dela fiera boâ—â—a i negri fiati Tale il fettore e le faville sono Canto 4. Hear our Spencer As Burning AEtna from his Boyling Stew Doth belch out Flames and Rocks in pieces broke
Engagement of the Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 579. And what resounds Makes so much Noise in Stories and Romances of the Lat. resonare to sound or ring again V. 580. Or Romance The German Nations who overthrew the Western Empire did for a long time retain their ancient Language which at last began to be intermixt with that of their Subjects and Larded with Latin words which they call'd the Roman Language to distinguish it from their own In this corruptly mixt Latin Language many Military Love-Stories were writ by the Romans whence they took the Name of Romances in this kind of writing but in their own Language the French are very frequent Ibid. Uther's Son Of Ether Welth for Admirable a King of the Britains or as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Happy-Hunter Uther and Arthur and all their Descendants though they gave Noble Subjects for the Histories of the Ages they lived in yet by the gross Ignorance that over-spread those times there is nothing transmitted to us but what is foolishly fabulous and fantastick V. 581. Begirt with British and Armorick Knights Surrounded encompass'd with English and French Men of Mars British of Britain Armorick of Bretagne in France formerly called Aremorica conquer'd by the Britains under Maximus Anno 389. Vicit Aremoricas animosa Britannia Gentes Et dedit imposito nomina prisca Jugo V. 582. Baptiz'd or Infidel Christians or Unbelievers Heathens Baptized of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to dip or plunge in Water as the manner was of St. John's Baptism in Jordan Infidel Infidelis Lat. one that does not believe in the Messias our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ. V. 583. Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban Ran a Tilt of the Fr. Juster to encounter on Horseback armed with a Launce an Exercise frequent and famous in former Ages Aspramoâ—t and Montalban Romantick Names of Mons Asper Lat. a Rough Rock and Mons Albanus perhaps Montanban a City of France in the Connes of Aquitaine V. 584. Damasco Damâ—scus of which see V. 468. Ibid. Marocco A City and Kingdom in Affrica a considerable part of Mauritania Tingitaâ—a extended along the Atlantick Ocean This before Fez became the Capital was one of the greatest Cities in the World Ibid. Trebisond Trabisonde Trapezus the Capital City of Capadocia in the lesser Asia near the Euxine Sea having a large and secure Haven taken by Mahomet the Second Emperour of the Turks in the Year 1460. V. 585. Whom Biserta sent from Affrick The Saracens Biserta the Modern Name for Utica a City of the Kingdom of Tunis in Affrica famous for the Sirname it gave to the Immortal Cato Uticensis who here kill'd himself From this Country the Saracens expell'd the Romans Afric Lat. Africa is one of the four Principal Parts of the Earth bounded on the North by the Midland Sea on the West and South by the Ocean Eastward by the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulph joyned to Asia by a small Neck of Land of 60 Miles long It has its Name from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cold because there is little or none in that Climate V. 586. When Charlemain c. Charlemain or Carolus Magnus was King of France and Emperour of Germany who about the Year 800. undertook a War against the Saracens in Spain where Aigoland Bellingan Marsiles and Idnabala had erected several petty Kingdoms these joyned against Charlemain who in his Royal Army had with him Milon Count of Angiers his Brother-in Law Roâ—land his Nephew Renaud of Montauban Roger the Dane Arnold of Belland c. famous Warriours Subjects of the French fabulous Romances who in that Illiterate Age confounded their Story and cover'd it with much Confusion and Obscurity Aigoland one of these Saracen Kings light upon Milen so advantagiously about Bayon that he cut him and 40000 French Men in pieces entered Gâ—scony and besieged Agen. At another time Bellingand â—lew Rowland and defeated a considerable Army And though this War lasted 14 Years I can no where find that this Emperour was killed by 'em but that by degrees he Master'd them dying peaceably in the Year 814 and lieth buried at Aix la Chapella Ibid. With all his Peerage With all his Nobility Peerage the Priviledge of being a Peâ—r or Nobleman V. 587. By Fontarabbiâ— called by the Spaniard Fuentarabia Fâ—ns Râ—pâ—dus or Flâ—entum rapidum a very strong Town in Biscay in Spain seated on the Shore of that Bay at high-high-Water surrounded by the Sea and so fortified that at the lowest Ebb not easily to be attempted Charles the Fifth added much to its Strength and call'd it his Pillow V. 588. These beyond compare of Mortal Prowess These Warriour-Angels did as far exceed all Mankind in point of Power and Courage as all the Heroes of old Greece or Troy c. are above the Comparison of Pigmies encountring Cranes Mortal Prowess Human Courage of the Fr. Proiiessc He above the rest V. 590. In Shape and Gesture proudly eminent He in Carriage and Behaviour high exalted above the rest Gesture of Gero Gestus est compositio corporis habitus quem in dicendo aut movendo observamus the Behaviour or graceful Motions of Speech and Carriage Eminent of Eminens Lat. higher exalted of eminâ—o to excel V. 591. Stood like a Tow'r Appear'd above 'em all like a stately Tower that over-looks the humbler sort of Buildings of the Fr. Tour. as that of Turris and this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Tower Thus Virg. describes the Venerable Cybele Mother of the Gods Berecynthia Mater Invehitur curâ—u Phrygias tuâ—rita per urbes AEn 6. V. 592. All her Original Brightness His Divine Shape and Heavenly Features had not quite lost their Primitive first Beauty nor did he appear other than an undone Arch Angel and the hâ—ighth of Brightness dimmed and overcast Originalis Lat first that belongs to one from his beginning Excessus Lat. exceeding Obscured darken'd Oâ—sâ—urus Lat. hid V. 594. As when the Sun c. As when the Sun just up looks through the Air that 's thick near the Horizon bereav'd of all his Beams or by the Moons dark disk Eclipst a dismal Twilight casts on half the World and with sad thoughts of change disturbs its Rulers V. 595. Horizontal Misty Air That is always more gross and thick near the Horizon Horizontal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lat. Finiens Finitor the Limiter and is so named because it bounds and limits our sight when we look round as far as our Eyes will reach where the Earth or the Sea and Sky seem to touch and kiss one another Nec sidera tota Ostendit Libycae Finitor Circulus Orae Luc. Lib. 9. V. 596. Shorn of his Beams Bereav'd and robb'd of the Rays of Light that surround his Glorious Head Shorn as if his shining Head had all its glorious Locks cut off and he appear'd bald without his Perruque powder'd with dazling Light of which our Author assigns the true Reason the Foggy Air and grois Mists
irremeablilis error Haud aliter Teucrûm nati AEn 5. It may therefore as well suit with the various Windings of a River often turning upon it self whose intricate Gyres and Meanders with-hold and check its Waters from making too much speed unto their Source the Sea V. 587. A frozen Continent A cold Country Continens Lat. continual without separation Hence the firm Land is called the Continent as not interrupted by the Sea V. 590. And Ruin seems of ancient Pile Looks like the decay and downfal of some mighty Building or ancient Structure Pile Fr. for a Heap and thence used for a vast Building or Princes Palace a Noble Pile V. 592. A Gulf profound c. A gawping Gulf as deep as the vast Serbonian Quagmire between the ancient Mountain Cassius and famous Damiata a City of Egypt on one of the more Eastern Mouths of the Nile formerly called Tamiata and still by the Arabians Damiat Ibid. Serbonis was a Lake 200 Furlongs in length and 1000 in compass called by the old Egyptians The Place of Typhon's Expiration now Bayrena dividing Egypt from Syria It was surrounded on all sides by Hills of loose Sand which carried into the Water by high Winds so thickened the Lake as not to be distinguish'd from part of the Continent where whole Armies have been decoyed in and swallowed up for the Sands for a great way seeming firm Land slid by the weight of great Bodies of Men farther off into the Lake that was but a deceitful crude Consistence and engaged 'em beyond possibility of returning thence called like that in AEn 8. Immane Barathrum Read Herod l. 3. The Mountain Casius bordered on this Bog being no other but a vast Mole of loose Sand as Lucan testifies Perfida quâ tellus Casiis excurrit arenis Et vada testantur junctas AEgyptia Syrtes Phar. 8. V. 594. The parching Air Burns fror◠c. Our Poet tells us that beyond the flaming Torrent of fierce Phlegethon there is a frozen Continent in Hell dismal and dark with everlasting Storms of dreadful Whirlwinds and horrid Hail that never melts but grows up in vast heaps like mighty Ruines of ancient and decayed Piles The keen Air in this accursed Climate scorcheth and the fierce Frosts perform the Effect of Fire V. 595. Burns frore Boreoe Penetrabile frigus adurit The piercing cold North-Wind burns says Virgil Geor. 1. The scorching Air burns by freezing says Milton the Words Urere and Adurere are applied both to Heat and Cold Ureban◠moneana nives Lucan l. 4. Perusti artus membra torrida gelu Livi. l. 21. Ambusti multorum artus vi frigoris Tac. l. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Kenoph Aristotle in the fourth Book of his Meteors tells us this is effected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the natural and innate Heat hemm'd in and befieged on all sides by the extream contrariety of the Cold becomes more fierce and scorching Others more probably alledge That Cold performs the effect of Fire by extinguishing the Heat and drying up the thriving Moisture in Plants and Trees whereby they become wither'd as if scorch'd by Fire which agrees with the Philosophy of Eccles. ch 43. v. 20 and 21. describing a Frost 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When the cold North-Wind bloweth c. It devoureth the Mountains and burneth the Wilderness and destroyeth all that is Green like Fire Frore of Freeze and this of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shake for Cold to shiver V. 596. By harpy-footed Furies Harpyiae who were named from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their Rapacity and Greediness were said to be Daughters of the Earth and Sea styled Jupiter's Dogs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoll. l. 2. They inhabited the Strophades Islands near Peloponnesus in the Ionian Sea described by Virg. Tristius haud illis monstrum nec saevior ulla Pestis ira Deum Stygiis sese extulit undis Virginei volucrum vultus faedissima ventris Proluvies uncaeque manus pallida semper Ora fame AEn 3. In the same place one of 'em is styled Furiarum maxima and afterwards Divae obscenaeque volucres V. 597. At certain Revolutions At certain Times Revolutio Lat. for the turning round of the Heavenly Spheres coming about to the Point where their Gyre began therefore used to express the Terms and Periods of Time depending on and measured by their Motions V. 599. Extreams by Change more fierce Finely Illustrated by being removed from Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice their soft Spiritual Warmth there languishing fix'd and immoveable and frozen in for certain terms of Time and in an instant motionless and benum'd hurried back to Baths of flaming Brimstone To Pine is to be punished thence to wast and decay of the Sax. Pin Paena Punishment Immoveable Immobilis Lat. void of Motion Infixt fastened Infixus Lat. of Infigere to drive into V. 603. Periods of Time For certain terms of Time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Circuit a going about of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a way Time being computed by the Heavenly Motions and Circumgyrations V. 604. Lethean Sound This Lethean Straight A Sound is properly a Sea enclosed with Land as that of Denmark Of Sound Dan. for Swimming Lethean Lethaeus Lat. of the River Lethe V. 607. With one small Drop Virgil and the rest of the Poets that held the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made no other use of these Waters of Oblivion but to drench the Souls that were to be Incorporated anew with an absolute forgetfulness of lamentable Life as was shewed before V. 583. and will be further manifest from these Has omnes ubi mille rotam volvere per annos Lethaeum ad fluvium Deus evocat agmine magno Scilicet immemores super a ut convexa revisant Rursus incipiant in corpor a velle reverti AEn 6. But our Author improves it to the aggravation of Hell's Torments by Ferrying his Fiends to and fro over this Lethean Lake between their Torrid and their Frozen Zone passing them over this forgetful Ford and shewing them a whole River of that Water one drop of which would be an Anodine to all their Torments and end their Sufferings which else must ever last in sweet Oblivion V. 611. Medusa with Gorgonian Terror Medusae with her Snaky Hair and horrid Face defends the Ford. The Gorgons were three Daughters of Phorcus Medusa Euryale and Stbenyo so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Cruelty Medusa beautiful beyond all the Women of her time and famous for her extraordinary fine Hair of which boasting beyond measure and vying with Pallas her self the angry Goddess changed her curling Locks on which she so much valued her self into Snakes so terrible that all the Beholders were turned into Stones her horrible Head was at last in Mercy to Mankind cut off by Perseus with the Aid and Advice of his Sister Minerva and worn by her
of Stars of the first Magnitude each of which are bigger than the Earth 108 times as they could be placed it could not contain more than 71209600 of ' em Perr Comment in Gen. Lib. 2. Quaest. 8. V. 566. Nigh-hand seem'd other Worlds Following the Opinion of divers Philosophers who thought not only the Moon to be such an Inhabitable World as this Terrestrial of ours is and by turns enlightened by it But the Stars especially those of the first size to be shining Orbs possest by the Souls of departed Heroes and Spirits pure and sublimed above sense accounting it absurd to imagine that so many Illustrious Bodies of so much Beauty and such Immense Magnitude and Motions incredible and almost Spiritual should be made to no other end than to dart and center their Innumerable Beams of Light in this dark opaque spot of Earth a vast Inestimable Tribute paid by so many Glorious Attendants on a dull heavy unactive Clod. V. 568. Like those Hesperian Gardens So call'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vesper because placed in the West under the Evening Star Those famous Gardens were the Isles about Cape Verd in Affrica whose most Western Point is still call'd Hesperium Cornu Others will have 'em the Canaries The Poets tell us Hesperus the Brother of Atlas had three Daughters AEgle Aretheusa Hesperethusa to whose keeping and that of a watchful Dragon these Gardens and their Golden Fruit were committed Fuit aurea silva Divitiisque graves fulvo germine rami Virgineusque chorus nitidi custodia luci Et nunquam somno damnatus Lumina Serpens Robora complexus rutilo curvata Metallo Luc. Lib. 9. Oceani finem juxta solemque Cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est Ubi maximus Atlas c. Hesperidum templi custos epulasque Draconi Quae dabat sacros servabat in arbore ramos AEn 4. Both these describe the Golden Fruit to hang on the Trees of these Gardens and yet Interpreters are not agreed in the matter because Mala signifies Apples they being probably no other than Mala Citrea vel Aurantia Lemons and Oranges is so near to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. for Sheep having finer Fleeces than those of other Countries V. 573. Allur'd his Eye The Sun in his Glorious Majesty most nearly resembling Heaven the Habitation of his Maker drew him to behold it Allur'd of allicere to entice V. 574. Through the calm Firmament Thro' the quiet Air as V. 564. Through the pure Marble Air Aura AEtherea as Tycho calls it that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tho' by the LXX translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by the Vulgar Latin Firmamentum signifies Extension the pure Expanse of Heaven the Air of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to extend or stretch out And that the Solidity by the Ancient Philosophers and Astronomers attributed to the Heavens and the Coelestial Orbs has incumber'd all their Machines and Motions with innumerable Inconveniences in so much that they have been forc'd to Hammer out of their Heads for the Sun three distinct Orbs five for the Moon and for the Planets 36 so scribbled over with Centrick Concentrick and Excentrick Cicles and Epicicles c. is so well known that to assert the Heavens in which the Stars seem to move to be liquid like the Air is an Opinion most probable as not being liable to so many Inconveniences Confusions and Crowds of Errours and the most easie to discover the Motions Distances Altitudes Aspects c. of the Stars and to give the clearest Account of the Generation Agitation and decay of Comets and the Appearances of New Stars and to solve all other Difficulties V. 575. By Center or Excentrick hard to tell Hard to tell how Satan took his course towards the Sun of whose course though continued so many thousand Years Mankind is so ignorant The Astronomers observing so great Varieties in the Motions of the Planets and that the Sun himself in passing through the Zodiack kept not an equal pace making 187 Days Journeys in travelling through his six Northern Inns and spending only 178 in the six other Southern Signs were forc'd to fancy new Orbs in which sometimes both they and he their great King and Governour moved from and deviated Excentrically to the Center of the Earth Centrum Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Mathematical word importing the middle point in a round or circular Body from which the Circumference is on all sides equally distant V. 576. Or Longitude The Longitude of the Sun or a Star is an Arch of the Ecliptick intercepted between the beginning of Aries and the Point where the Circle of Latitude cuts the Ecliptick Longitudo Lat. length Ibid. The Great Luminary The vast Light the Sun so call'd by Moses Gen. 1. 16. And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day Various have been the Opinions of the most learned of Mankind concerning the Magnitude of the Sun Anaximander thought it as big as the Earth and its Orb 27 times bigger Anaxagoras esteem'd it greater than Peloponesus Heraclitus and Epicurus somewhat bigger than it seems But by comparing the Suns Diameter with that of the Earth that is the Globe of Earth and Water Ptolemy and his Followers affirm the Sun to be greater than the Earth 167 times Tycho Brahee 139 and Copernicus 434 't is hard to determine which of 'em is the best Coelestial Surveyor Constellatio Lat. properly an Assembly of Stars V. 579. Dispenses Light from far Sends far and near his chearful Light Despendere Lat. to bestow to lay out V. 580. In number that compute Days Months and Years Days are of two sorts one consisting of the time in which the Sun is carried about the Earth called Natural 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the other accounted by his Duration above the Horizon named the Artificial Day A Solar Month is the time the Sun is in passing through the twelfth part of the Zodiack and a Year that in which he entirely runs through all the Twelve Signs of that Circle so named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vos O Clarissima Mundi Lumina labentem Coelo quae ducitis annum Georg. Lib. 1. Tuus jam regnat Apollo Et incipient Magni procedere Menses Ecl. 4. Interea Magnum Sol circumvolvitur Annum AEn 3. A dextrâ laevâque dies Mensis Annus Saeculaque positae spatiis aequalibus horae Meta. Lib. 2. The reason of all which is from the Motion of the Sun the Measure of Time V. 583. By his Magnetick Beam Or are turn'd towards him by his Attractive Rays that draw 'em to him Magnetick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Loadstone that draws Iron to it with such eager embraces that the force whereby they are separated is very perceptible so call'd from the Name of its first Finder an Indian Shepherd Philosophers having observ'd a Central Virtue in
one Coelestial Father c. That one great Heav'nly Father feeds us all V. 405. To Man in part Spiritual To Man who as to his Nobler Part his Soul is Spiritual Spiritualis Lat. of the Nature of a Spirit V. 407. Pure Intelligential Substances Angels and Spirits those refined understanding Beings whose clearer Intellects and inlighten'd Minds are sublimed and exalted so far above Mankind immers'd in matter must be sustain'd and supported with some sort of Spiritual Aliment as the Rational and all Created Beings are nothing but the Infinite and the Almighty One being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self-sufficient Intelligentia Lat. Knowledge in the Abstract such as is expressive of Angels and Spirits from the Purity and Sublimity of those Coelestial Minds See Vers. 414. V. 412. Concoct The Office of the Stomach macerating our Meat by its Internal Heat Of Concoquere Lat. to boyl Ibid. Assimilate turn into their own likeness As all Creatures turn their Food into their Corresponding Flesh Blood and Animal Spirits of Assimilare Lat. to be like V. 417. Earth and the Sea feed Air c. There being a constant Circulation of the Elements they do by continual Mutations and Vicissitudes make and maintain one another Earth being nothing but the Dregs and Faeces of Water coagulated by Condensation as Water is Air by the same means thickned into Visibility as Fire is Air sublimely rarified each support other by an incessant Circumrotation interchangeably running round Thus from the Humid Unctuous Earth Vapours and Exhalations are rarified into Water that supports the Seas vast source from the Earth and the Sea the thinner and lighter Perspirations are the same way transmuted into Air and Air exalted and inspirited to Fire and by the contrary Condensation in Quaternion run Perpetual Circle multiform as before at Vers. 181. V. 420. Unpurged Vapours gross Exhalations and foul Mists mounting up to the Moon that look like black Patches on her fair Face Vapours undigested unrefined not yet clarified and converted into her clear Complexion V. 421. No Nourishment exhale the moist Moon sends from her humid Globe Food more refined up to the higher Orbs to exhale exhalare Lat. to breathe out as rising Mists seem to be exhaled Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucres Geor. 2. V. 423. That Light imparts That affords and communicates Light to all things Imparts of the Lat. impertire to bestow a part or share on V. 424. His Alimental Recompense The Sun himself that on the Universe bestows his chearing Light and enlivening Rays receives in moist Returns and unctuous Vapours his Nourishment from all as Toll and Tribute paid him in grateful Recompense Alimental Alimentum Lat. Food Nourishment V. 426. Sups with the Ocean According to the Opinion of Thales who supposed Water the First Matter of the Creation borrowed of the Description of the Creation by Moses Gen. 1. Vers. 2. So Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render'd by Virgil Oceanumque Patrem rerum Nymphasque sorores Geor. 4. Not only the Sun but all the Homerick Inhabitants of Heaven are entertained by the Ocean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now these Ethiopians dwelt near the Suns Supping-Room Oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem Ultimus AEthiopum locus est AEn 4. Audiet Herculeo stridentem gurgite solem Juv. Sa◠15. V. 429. Mellifluous Dews and Pearly Grain A Description of Manna Angels Food the Bread of Heav'n And when the Dew that lay was gone up behold upon the Face of the Wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the Hoar-frost on the Ground and it was like Coriander-Seed white And the taste of it was like Wafers made with Honey Exod. 16. Vers. 24 and 31. Man did eat Angels Food Psal. 78. Vers. 25. Mellifluous Mellifluus Lat. sweet as Honey V. 434. To their Viands their Victnals Their Food Fr. Viande Ita. Vivande both of Vivere Lat. to live as Victus Food V. 435. Not seemingly nor in Mist The Angel did not make as if he did eat nor put the cheat upon 'em by casting a Mist before their Eyes according to the Gloss of Theodoret in his 68 Question on Gen. 18. Vers. 8. who tells us that as those Angels who appeared to Abraham were by Moses styled Men having nothing of Human Nature but the outward appearance so they were said to eat when they did but seem to do so Cibum simulatis illis manibus capientes in simulatum quoque os ingerentes clam consumpserunt prout illis placuit Of the same Opinion is St. Thomas Tom. 1. Part. 9. 51. Art 2. which they support by the Confession of Raphael himself All these Days I did appear unto you but I did neither eat nor drink but you did see a Vision Tob. 12. Vers. 19. The Angel that appeared to Manoah declared against it And the Angel of the Lord said Though thou detein me I will not eat of thy Bread Judg. 13. V. 16. Our Author on the contrary believes the Angel did with keen and hungry dispatch eat digest and turn what was convertible of it into his proper substance evacuating the rest by Perspiration nor does there seem any absurdity in the Asseveration since most Texts of Holy Writ where the Appearances of Angels are Recorded make 'em subject to Human Sight Hearing and Feeling too why not then to Eating as literally affirm'd of 'em as any of the other Actions falling under Sense But these Enquiries are too subtle and exceed the compass of our Capacities Ibid. The common Gloss of Theologians the usual Interpretation of Doctors and Divines Gloss Glossa Lat. of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Tongue signifies an Exposition or Interpretation of an obscure place of Holy Scripture or other Writing Protinus enim potest Interpretationem Linguae Secretioris quae Graeci Glossas vocant dum aliud agitur ediscere Quint. Lib. 1. Cap. 2. Theologians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that writes or reasons concerning GOD and his Holy Mysteries that treats and teaches Divine Matters the School-Divines and Doctors V. 438. To transubstantiate and heat sufficient to digest and turn into the substance of the Creature fed the Food it eats The proper Office of the Stomach aided by its innate vigorous heat Transubstantiate and Transubstantiation Barbarous Lat. Words that have much disturbed the World Ibid. What redounds transpires What remains over and above what is necessary and fit for nourishment breathes out vanisheth into Air Is voided and evacuated as Sweat evaporates through the Pores Redundare Lat. to be over and above to exceed to overflow Transpirare Lat. to sweat to breathe through V. 440. The Emperick Alchemist The Prying the Experimental Chymist Emperick of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. one that is taught by tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Endeavour Experiment hence a bold daring and unskilful Quack is call'd an Emperick from venturing by dangerous Medicines to make
of which they were to be Framed about which the Eternal Mind was to concern it self Creation was nothing else but his Powerful Command the Almighty Fiat proceeding from his Infinite Goodness Wisdom and Power that produced this Beauteous All suitable to his most perfect Idea By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the Breath of his Mouth He Spake and it was done He Commanded and it stood fast Psal. 33. 6 9. And as he at first Commanded all Things into Being so he does still uphold them by the Word of his Power Heb. 1. 3. Let there be Light Gen. 1. 3. And immediately Light the first Bright Offspring of the Creation arose out of the gloomy deep Quintessence pure the brightest and most refined Being See Book III. Vers. 716. whether Light be Corporeal or according to Aristotle Qualitas inhaerens Diaphano is much contested among the Philosophers and has puzzled the greatest Masters of Nature This we are sure of that this visible Light so necessary to the World both for its Use as well as Ornament was in the Beginning Created by God and by his Sovereign Command call'd out of Darkness God Commanded the Light to Shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4. 6. V. 245. From her Native East From the East her Birth place whence rising every day she seems New-Born V. 247. Sphear'd in a Radiant Cloud Placed in a shining Cloud according to the Opinion of Bede Hug. de St. Vict. Bonav Lyra Tostatus and others who held Light Created on the first day to have been a shining Body placed in a bright Cloud and moving in that superiour part of the World in which the Sun made on the fourth day was placed this Light Sojourn'd in her Cloudy Tabernacle wheeling round the Infant and yet imperfect World and by her Motion constituting the three first days and nights But Pererius imagines this Light to have been the same with that of the Sun Created on the first thô not compleated till the 4th day The Secret is unsearchable Sphear'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to make round Sojourn'd remain'd stay'd Of Sojourner Fr. to reside V. 249. God saw the Light was good Gen. 1. 4. The Eulogie and divine Approbation of Light God's brightest Image and his purest Emanation amongst all his Creatures styled himself the Father of Lights Jam. 1. 17. Lucem inhabitans inaccessibilem Dwelling in unapproachable Light 1 Tim. 6. 16. From hence Catharin would infer this Primitive Light to have been the Sun even on the first day perfect and compleat because God pronounced nothing good before it was entirely finish'd Although Moses relates the Sun the Moon and Stars to have been the Work of the fourth day with whose Historical Relation our Author exactly agrees V. 250. By the Hemisphere divided God divided the Light from the Darkness Gen. 1. 4. By half the Globe says Milton that is the new created Light shining on one side of the great mighty Mass enlighten'd one half of it by Day the averse half making its own Darkness was cloath'd with Night whose alternate Round is still continued constantly Hemisphere Bo. III. Vers. 725. V. 252. The first Day even and morn Moses thus describes the Natural Day consisting of 24 hours Gen. 1. 5. The new-born Light journying about the mighty Mass of the as yet unseparated Elementary Bodies the Evening and the Morning made one compleat Day That this is a plain description of Day and Night Basilius affirms in his Second Homily on Genesis Day doubtless says he had the Precedence and took place of Night in the beginning of Time and therefore the Evening the close and end of the Day is by Moses first named and then is added the Morning the end and conclusion of the Night both together making but one Natural Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Quasi Noctidialis For the World 's obscure condition before the Birth-day of Light was not named Night but Darkness Night being the part of Time distinguished from but yet succeeding and relating to the Day V. 281. Let there be Firmament c. Gen. 1. 6. This word Firmament of the Lat. Firmamentum corresponding with the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Solidity has given occasion to mistake it for the solid and most firm Body of the Heavens incapable of Division Thinness or any decaying Alteration The Maintainers of this Opinion endeavour to support it by these Texts Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es Caelos qui solidissimi quasi aere fusi sunt Job 37. 18. Translated much amiss but in ours render'd aright Hast thou with him spread out the Sky which is strong as a molten Looking-glass And by that of Job 14. 12. Donec atteratur Caelum Till the Heavens be worn out better express'd by our Translation Till the Heavens be no more As if that employ'd their Solidity Homer is vouch'd also in their defence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. signifies Extension and Expansion and by the best Interpreters is understood of the wide outstretch'd Air as our Poets explains it Expanse of Liquid pure Transparent Elemental Air diffused c. Spread out on all sides to the utmost compass of the World 's wide Round Which Moses seems to agree with in his Discourse of the Fowl that fly above the Earth in the Firmament of Heaven Gen. 1. 20. Express'd by the same word and said to be stretch'd out like a Curtain Psal. 104. 2. That stretcheth out the Heavens like a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in Isa. 40. 22. Partition firm and sure for its certainty not solidity Non appellatur Firmamentum quasi sit corpus Firmissimum sed quia est Interstitium terminus interjectus inter aquas superiores inferiores terminus firmissimus immutabilis non proper stationem sed propter firmitatem aut intransgressibilem terminum superiorum inferiorum aquarum Aug. lib. 2. Su. Gen. ad Litt. c. 10. Transparent that may be seen through of Transparere Lat. to appear through V. 268. Waters underneath dividing They who understand the Firmament to be the vast Air expanded and stretch'd out on all sides to the Starry Heavens esteem the Waters above it to be those generated in the middle Region of the Air of Vapours exhaled and drawn up thither from the steaming Earth and nether Waters which descend again in such vast showers and mighty floods of Rain that not only Rivers but Seas may be imaginable above as appeared when the Cataracts came down in a Deluge and the Flood-gatcs of Heaven were opened Gen. 7. 11. Others and those many by these Waters above understand the Crystalline Heaven by Gassendus made double by our Author better named Crystalline Ocean by its clearness resembling Water who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters Psal. 104. 3. Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters above the
because all solid Bodies are made of a mixture of Earth and Water sicci humidi crassi Fire and Air being uncapable of Generation though contributing to the Temper as Arist. c. 4. l. 4. Meteo Birds therefore being of an AErial Nature and Agiliâ—y are supposed to have taken their Being in that of the two Productive Elements nearest of kin to it viz. Water easily extenuated and spun out into Air as this is often crowded and condensed into Water Volucres agitabilis aer Cesserunt nitidis habitandae piscibus undae Met. 1. V. 399. The Sounds Are narrow Seas between two Lands as the Baltic eminently so called their Name is borrowed of their Noise Sounds as Fretum Lat. à Fremendo such enclosed Seas being more boisterous and foaming V. 402. Sculles that bank the mid Sea Shoals of Fish so vast that they appear like mighty Banks in the midst of the Sea Sculles and Shoals are vast multitudes of Fish of the Sax. Sceole or the Ital. Stuolo an Assembly V. 405. Through Groves of Coral 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. called also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Stony Tree because growing in the Sea like a Bush soft and green thence called a Grove when it gets above the Water or is taken thence à molliore aëre illico duratur it immediately grows hard like a Stone of a curious Red colour when dress'd and clear'd from its enclosing Moss Nunc quoque curaliis eadem natura remansit Duritiem tacto capiant ut ab aëre quodque Vimen in aequore etat fiat super aequora saxum Met. 4. V. 406. Their wav'd Coats Their Scales like little Waves wrought over one another glistering in the Sun like Gold V. 407. Pearly Shells That are of that colour and often contain Pearls in them as those of Oysters do Pearl of Sphaerula Lat. from their roundness V. 409. In joynted Armour watch In hard Shells resembling Armour that have their Overtures at which the fenc'd and defended Fish takes in its Nourishment Ibid. On smooth the Seal Play on smooth Seas in calm weather disport themselves Seal Phoca Lat. the Sea-calf V. 410. Bended Dolphins play Delphinus Lat. is taken to be the Sea-hog an Animal Friendly to Mankind and delighted with Music painted crooked or bent according to the Errors of Antiquity seeming only so by the force and swiftness with which he rises out of the Sea and exceeds all Creatures Velocissimum omnium animalium non solum marinorum ocyor volueri ccyoâ— telo tantâ vi exilit ut plerumque vela navium transvolet Plin. l. 9. c. 8. Delphinum similes qui per maria humida nando Carpathium Libycumque secant luduntque per undas AEn 5. Famous is the Escape of Arion on the back of one of these who forc'd to leap into the Sea to save himself from murdering Pirates was supported and set safe on shore by it Celebrated by Ovid. Inde fide majus tergo Delphina recurvo Se memorant oneri supposuisse novo Ille sedens citharamque tâ—net pretiumque vehendi Cantat aequoreas carmine mulcet aquas Fast. l. 2. V. 411. Enormous in their Gate Irregular in their Motion Wallowing unweildy in their way Gate signif way going a Lincolnshire word of the Sax. Gan or Belg. Gaen to go Enormous Bo. V. Vers. 297. V. 412. Tempest the Ocean By their vast bulk and violent wallowings rouse the Sea and make it roar as in a Tempest Of these Job is to be understood He maketh the deep to boyl like a pot he maketh a path to shine after him one would think the deep to be hoary Chap. 41. v. 31 and 32. V. 414. Stretch'd like a Promontory A Comparison not immodest since Basilius and Theodoret tell us That Whales when they heave their broad Backs above the Sea appear like mighty Islands as Leviathan is liken'd Bo. I. V. 201. Some have been taken capable of covering 4 Acres of Land Plin. l. 9. c. 30. Upon the earth there is none like him Job 41. 33. Prâ—montory Bo. VI. V. 654. V. 417. The tepid Caves The warm moist watry places Pools and Shores Our Author seems to intimate the Water-Fowl only to have had their Aqueous Birth with the Fish on the fifth day and therefore takes notice here of their numerous Brood soon hatch'd from multitudes of Eggs laid in wet Plashes fenny and sandy Shores which compared with what he says at V. 451. Let the Earth bring forth Fowl living in her kind amounts to a confirmation and had he only instanced in those Sea or Water-Fowl that breed and live in them or on their Banks or dare in Aiery Caravans pass over them his Opinion had been plain but mentioning Cock and Peacock c. he has left it dubious and uncertain Tepidus Lat. warm Unde cavae tepido sudant humore lacunae Geor. 1. V. 419. Bursting with kindly Rupture Opening with seasonable Breach bring forth their unfledg'd rough-skind Young Opening when Hatching Heat has swell'd its Inmate now too big for its small Tenement mature and struggling to get forth with its Bill working its way out Rupture Ruptura Lat. a breach of Rumpere Lat. to break V. 420. Their callow Young Their yet unfeather'd unfledg'd Young Ones Callow is of Callum Lat. for the Skin grown hard on labouring Hands to which is compar'd that of Birds rough and harsh upon the breaking out of their Feathers Callow Callosus Lat. rough and porous Ova callosa Hor. new-laid Eggs whose Shells are rough Namque marem cohibent callosa vitellum Lib. 2. Sat. 5. Fledge Book III. Vers. 627. V. 421. They summ'd their Penns Compleated their Feathers had their just number wherewithal to waft them through the Air. Summare Lat. to reckon up to number V. 422. With clang despis'd the Ground Forsake the Earth with their shrill Note mounted among the Clouds Clang Clangor Lat. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word coined by the Noise that Geese Cranes and Swans make when they rise on Wing or light down again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magnis quatiunt clangoribus alas AEn 3. V. 424. Their Eyries build Their Nests of Eyer Ger. Eggs. Eagle Aigle Fr. Aquila Lat Doth the Eagle mount up at thy command and make her nest on high she dwelleth on the rock upon the crag of the rock Job 39. 27. V. 426. Rang'd in Figure wedge their way Order'd and rank'd in several Figures cut their way more easie through the yielding Air as Cranes are reported to fly in the form of a Wedge when crossing the Seas thence said to be Palamedes Bird from whose Figur'd Flight he found out the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some of them not unlike a Wedge Turbabis versus nec littera tota volabit Unam perdideris si Palamedis avem Mart. l. 13. Ep. 75. V. 428. Their Aiery Caravans Their vast Assemblies in the Air.
ANNOTATIONS ON MILTON's Paradise Lost. WHEREIN The Texts of Sacred Writ relating to the POEM are Quoted The Parallel Places and Imitations of the most Excellent Homer and Virgil Cited and Compared All the Obscure Parts render'd in Phrases more Familiar The Old and Obsolete Words with their Originals Explain'd and made Easie to the English Reader By P. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Uni cedit MILTONUS Homero Propter Mille annos Juv. vii 38. LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street MDCXCV NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK I. PARADISE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a word of Persian Extraction whence the Jews borrowed it and of them the Grecians Though they who affect such Gingles derive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to water round about because it was a Place according to the Description of Moses watered by some of the most famous Rivers of the World This adopted Hebrew word is found but in three places in the Old Testament Eccles. 2. v. 5. Nehem. 2. v. 8. and Cantic 8. v. 13. where it is styled a Paradise of Pomegranates expressive every where of a Place of the greatest Perfection Pleasure Plenty and Delight imaginable Xenophon tells us of divers Paradises like Fortunate Islands encompassed by Euphrates and Phil. in Vit. Apoll. mentions Many in which not only the choicest Trees and Fruits the most sweet and beautiful Flowers the most fragrant and lasting Greens but Multitudes of living Creatures of the selectest sorts were enclosed whence Aul. Gell. Est autem Paradisus omnis locus amaenissimus voluptatis plenissimus quem etiam vivaria dici à Latinis l. 2. c. 20. Noct. Alt. That Paradise was not Allegorical or Figurative according to Origen St. Ambrose and others is not only confirmed by the general Consent of the Greek and Latin Fathers nor Fantastical according to the Jewish Cabbala But a part of Asia where Babylon was afterwards built and known by the Name of Mesopotamia as lying between the Euphrates and the Tygris both the Description of Moses the Nature of the Soil and the Comparison of many places of Scripture most evidently make out Of the Fertility of the Country Q. Curtius gives this Testimony Resudat toto ferè solo humor qui ex utroque amne Euphrate Tigri manat per aquarum vends solo Babylonico foelicitatem affert maximam In this Garden of God as it is called Gen. 13. 10. abounding with all things the choicest and most excellent the Earth ever bore God seated our great Progenitors in a Condition so superlatively happy that our blessed Saviour was pleased by it to Typifie the high and happy State of Everlasting Life Luk. 23. 43. This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise The Forfeiture of this Innocent and Blissful Seat by the Disobedience of our first Parents and their deserved Expulsion out of this Paradise is the sad Subject of this unparallell'd Poem V. 2. The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree It imports not much to know nor can it be determined what kind this Interdicted Tree was of the Prohibition having no regard to or influence on its Fruit more than that it was made the Trial of Man's entire Obedience to his Maker Moses Barcepha endeavours to prove it a Fig-Tree because the Offenders had its Leaves so ready at hand to cover their Nakedness Gen. 3. 7. But this implies no more than that a Tree of that kind stood in its dangerous Neighborhood It seemeth on the contrary not reasonable to imagine Adam should presume to cloath his Nakedness the Consequence of his Offence with the Leaves of the same Tree the Eating of whose Fruit had been the cause of his Offending especially when according to Gen. 3. 3. the Prohibition was so strict and severe that it had been a Daring second to his shameful Sin but to have touch'd that sacred Tree sacred as our Author tells us to Abstinence secluded and set apart from all Enjoyment The common Opinion That this Tree so set apart and secluded by God's Command was an Apple-Tree is weakly grounded on Cantic 8. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. sub arbore malo suscitavi te Ibi corrupta est mater tua ibi violata est genetrix tua more expressive of the Original than our Translation I raised thee up under an Apple-Tree there thy Mother conceived thee there she conceived that bare thee But this excellent Song is wholly Allegorical and not to be literally understood V. 2. Whose mortal taste Mortalis Lat. deadly The taste of this Forbidden Fruit is called Deadly not as such in its own Nature and therefore prohibited but by the Prohibition being made the Test of Man's Obedience became pernicious to him by violating his Creator's Command and brought forth Death and Hell V. 4. With loss of EDEN Of Paradise which by God was planted Eastward in Eden as to the place where Moses wrote Gen. 2. 8. though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Pleasure and Delight from whence perhaps the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also Adonis horti from some knowledge the Ancient Poets had of the Writings of Moses and this Garden of Eden And although St. Hierom and after him Cajetan and others and in some places the LXX though not in this translate Eden Pleasure as Gen. 2. 8. Plantaverat autem Dominus Deus Paradisum voluptatis yet undoubtedly Eden is here the proper Name of a Region as will be more evident from Gen. 4. 16. Ezech. 27. 23. Isai. 37. 12. Divers have been the Opinions of Men and Many even of the Learned absurd enough concerning the Site of this Terrestrial Paradise Some have fancied it in the Moon others beyond an Unnavigable Ocean others under the Equinox some near the North-Pole others above the middle Region of the Air But the Learned Sir Walt. Rawleigh plainly proves God planted this Delightful Garden in Eden Eastward in respect of Judaea which was afterwards called Mesopotamia where Tygris and Euphrates joyn their Streams and taking several Courses water Chus and Havilah according to Moses the Seat of Chus and his Sons being then in the Valley of Shinar where Nimrod built Babel A Climate of all others the most temperate 35 Degrees from the Equinoxial and 55 from the Pole abounding with most Excellent Wines Fruits Oyl and Grain of all sorts where as the most perfect proof of Fertility Palm-Trees grow in great numbers at this Day without Care or Cultivation Ibid. One greater Man the Man Christ Jesus much greater than the Protoplast Adam as being both God and Man the perfect Image of his Father who fulfill'd all Righteousness and was made a Propitiation for us V. 6. Sing Heav'nly Muse Inform me Heavenly Muse who didst instruct the Shepherd Moses who first taught the Sons of Israel how the Heavens and Earth were made and how this Beauteous Universe arose in such bright various Forms out of Confusion The Poets
due Guerrier le noderose antenne Cant. 6. St. 40. Hector took a Spear Ten Cubits long 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now if Hector or Polyphemus himself compared to their Superiour Satan were but a Pigmy who can wonder at the Circumference of his Shield or the Size of his Spear to use our Author's Argument and Words When Millions of fierce encountring Angels fought On either side the least of whom could weild These Elements and arm him with the force Of all their Regions Bo. 6. See Spencer Bo. 3. Cant. 7. his Spear amidst her Sun-broad Shield arriv'd that nathemore the Steel asunder riv'd all were the Beam in bigness like a Mast. V. 296. Over the Burning Marle Over the Burning Ground the singed Soil Marle according to Pliny Marga is a Fat Earth of kind and colour like Lime used in many Countries to soil the Earth which its innate heat stimulates into great Fertility V. 297. On Heavens Azure On Heavens Blue Plains Azur Fr. Azurro Ital. both from the barbarous Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lapis Lazulus a Stone of which is made the best Blue Paint resembling the Blue Sky brought from Persia call'd there Lazurd Ibid. The Torrid Zone The Roasting Region the Scorching Climate Torridus Lat. burnt Torrida semper ab igni of the Torrid Zone Geor. 1. V. 298. Vaulted with Fire Voulté Fr. Arched over-head with Fire well agreeing with his former Description On all sides round As one great Furnace flamed V. 62 63. V. 299. Nathless Nevertheless of which it seems to be a contracted Diminutive or the Sax. Nadeles of Na not and less Ibid. Till on the Beach The Brink the Side the Brow of that Burning Sea V. 300. Inflamed Inflammatus Lat. all on a light Fire V. 301. His Legions Angel-forms His Armies of Angels Angelick Shapes Legio Lat. was a square Battalion of Roman Footmen consisting of about 6000 more or less according to different times Twelve millions of Angels our Saviour mentions Matth. 26. 53. Forms Forma Lat. for Shape Figure Beauty c. Ibid. Intrans't Helpless confounded Transi Fr. fallen into a Swound V. 302. Thick as Autumnal As numberless as Leaves in Autumn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As many as the Leaves and Flowers that adorn the Spring says Homer And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very many like to Leaves or Sands for number Thus improved by Virg. Quem qui scire velit Libyci velit aequoris idem Discere quam multae Zephyro turbentur arenae Aut ubi Navigits violentior incidit Eurus Nosse quet Ionii veniant ad litora sluctus Geor. 2. But those which exactly quadrate with the place are Quà m multa in Sylvis Autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadâ—nt Folia AEn 6. Ibid. Autumnal Of or in the Autumn Autumnus Lat. the Harvest that Quarter of the Year from the beginning of August to that of November V. 303. In Vallombrosa It. In the shady Vale. Valombrosa is a famous Valley in Tuscany so named of Vallis and Umbra Shade remarkable for the continual cool Shades which the vast number of Trees that overspread it afford Ibid. Where th' Etrurian Shades c. Where the lofty Tuscan Trees Vaulted high overhead agree in one green Bower Etruria was the ancient Name of a considerable part of Italy now Toscana Thuscia and Tuscia Lat. containing all that Country which belongs to the States of Florence Siena Pisa and Luca the last a Free State the rest subject to the great Duke of Florence V. 304. Over-arch'd Arch'd over-head Arch. A Circular Figure from Arc Fr. as that of Arcus Lat. for a bent Bow its resemblance Ibid. Scatter'd Sedge Weeds broken by the Wind and covering the Red Sea Sedge from the Sax. Saecg A little Sword from its shape and A secando from the sharpness of its sides which are apt to cut the Hand they are drawn through V. 305. A Float Floating swimming about from Flotter Fr. as that from Fluctuare to swim Ibid. Orion arm'd The Poets Fable that Jupiter Mercury and Neptune being one Night out late on a Ramble were forc'd to take into a poor House where one Hircus lived who killed the only Ox he had to entertain his Heavenly Guests who to reward his Gratitude granted him any Request he should make 'em which was That he might have a Child without the trouble of a Wife Whereupon these his Guests Urining in the Oxes Hide commanded him to bury it Ten Months in the Earth which he did and at the end of the term he had this Son who proving a great Hunter was kill'd by a Scorpion and by the Commiseration of the Gods translated to Heaven into a Constellation of Sixteen Stars From this extraordinary way of Generation he was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Urine Others say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Stormy Weather that attends him Assurgens fluctu nimbosus Oryon AEn 1. Armatumque Auro Circumspicit Oryona AEn 3. Where Virgil has adorn'd him with Gold in respect of his Splendor as Miltâ—n does here arm him with fierce Winds in Consideration of the season he appears in which is generally tempestuous Armatus Lat. armed V. 306. The Red-Sea Coast Mare Erythraeum of Erythreus Son of Persus and Andromeda who Reigned in Egypt on the Confines of this Sea and probably found the way of sailing in small Vessels among Islands thereof the affinity of his Name with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek for Red occasioned the naming this Sea so Sir Walter Rawleigh from a view that Gama a Portugese took of this Sea Anno 1544 affirms That the Earth Sand and Cliffs of divers Islands in this Sea being of a Reddish Colour give by Reflection a foil to its Waters that seem to have a Tincture of Rubicundity though not real Where the Hebrew Text mentions the miraculous passage of the Israelites cross this Sea it is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mare Algosum the Sea of Weeds from the abundance of Weeds and floating Sedge though translated the Red-Sea V. 307. Busiris was according to Sir Walter Rawleigh's Opinion one of the Egyptian Kings that opprest the Israelites in whose Reign Moses fled having slain the Egyptian and that he was called Chencres on whom the Ten Plagues were inflicted and who was afterwards in persuit of 'em drown'd with all his Host in the Red-Sea Pharaoh the word used by Moses was the general Appellative of all the Egyptian Monarchs as is evident from 2 Kings 23. 29. and Jerem. 46. 2. where by his Sirname one of their Kings is call'd Pharach-Nechoh Ibid. His Memphian Chivalry His Egyptian Horsemen from Memphis the great and glorious city of old Egypt seated on the Brow of a Mountain two Miles West of Nilus and is call'd Moph Hos. 9. 6. About Ten Miles from this place stand the famous Pyramids Barbara Pyramidum sileat miracula Memphis Mart. Quem non AEgyptia Memphis AEquaret visu numerisque moventibus astra Luc. l. 1.
for its Poverty In nullas vitiatur Opes non aere nec auro Excoquitur nullo glebarum crimine pura Et penitus terra est Lib. 9. V. 694. Of Babel The Name of the famous Tower which Nimrod perswaded the Inhabitants of the Earth who were then all of one Language and of one Lip Gen. 11. 1. to undertake to build as high as might be to prevent the Destruction of any future Deluge It was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confusion from that Confusion of Tongues whose diversity made 'em desist from their vain design Now because Gen. 8. the Diluvian Waters are said to have surpass'd the highest Mountain by 15 Cubits and there being many Mountains in the World whose Perpendicular Altitude is more than four Miles They intended as Josephus tells us Lib. 1. Antiq. to raise this Tower five Miles in heighth Heylin reports it was raised 5164 Paces before interrupted but Confusion covers it And whereas the Sacred Text says they did attempt this to get 'em a Name Gen. 11. 4. this word Babel is convey'◠through all Languages down to us to perpetuate the Memory of their Presumption and Folly For to Bable signifies to say something unintelligible The Giants attempting Heaven and Piling Pelion on Ossa is probably a Poetick Imitation of this vain attempt Inseruit celsis prope se oum Pelion Astris Syderibusque vias incumbens abstulit Ossa Luc. Lib. 6. Ibid. Works of Memphian Kings The famous Buildings of Egyptian Monarchs called Memphian of Memphis the Capital of ancient Egypt seated on the Western Shoar of Nilus from which distant about 16 of our Miles stood the wonderful Pyramids the biggest about six Acres high on which one of their Kings employed 366000 Men almost 20 Years These Monuments of mighty Wealth and Luxury are still standing and like enough to last till the general Conflagration Barbara Pyramidum sileat Miracula Memphis Mart. Lib. 15. V. 695. Monuments of Fame Places erected and built in memory of great Kings as those above-mentioned of the Memphian Monarchs Monumentum est structura ad memoriam defuncti facta in the same sense that we call the Tombs at Westminster the Monuments and such were often made in remembrance of great Men though their Bodies lay not there Intombed V. 697. By Spirits Reprobate By Wicked Fiends of the Lat. Reprobus evil nought rejected V. 698. With incessant Toyl With continual Labour Incessans never ceasing uninterrupted of in and cesso Lat. to give over Toyl of Tuyl Dutch for Husbandry whence to Till that being an Occupation full of Labour V. 699. Innumerable Numberless of Innumerabilis Lat. that cannot be number'd V. 700. Nigh on the Plain Hard by on the smooth Plain many small Trenches were provided which had underneath 'em Streams of flowing Fire conveyed into 'em from the flaming Lake where another numerous Band with admirable Skill c. Ibid. Cells of the Lat. Cella any private secret place A celando to hide V. 701. Veins Streams Vena Lat. not only for the blew Conduits in Mens Bodies but those of Fountains and Metals in the Earth V. 702. Sluc'd from the Lake Let out of the word Sluce a Contrivance to keep in and let Water out at pleasure from the Belg. Sluyse or the Fr. Escluse of Excludere Lat. to shut out V. 703. Found out the Massie Ore Melt down the Golden Ore of Fondre Fr. or Fondere of the Lat. Fundere to melt to cast Metal Fluit aes rivis aurique Metallum Vulnificumque Calybs vastae fornace liquevit AEn Massie heavy of Massif Fr. Weighty of Massa Lat. a Lump Gold is the heaviest of all Metals V. 704. Sev'ring each kind Separating each sort Sever of separare Lat. to divide Ibid. And scumm'd the Bullion-Dross And took the foul Froth that arose out of its Dross To scum of Escumer to take off the Scum Lat. Spuma the Froth Bullion of Billion Fr. old word for base Money made of Metal not refined or clogged with too much Alloy Dross of the Begl Droes Lees the Dross in Metals being the useless terrene part separated from the refined and purer Ore V. 706. A various Mould Variety of Moulds of several Shapes and Figures Mould of Molde Span For Figure Shape of Modulus Lat. V. 708. As in an Organ As in an Organ the sound Board conveys Breath from each blast of the Bellows to many Rows of Pipes an exact Comparison and new Organ as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Instrument it being one superlatively and chief of those of Musick V. 710. A Fabrick huge A mighty Building a stately Edifice of Fabrica as this à Fabricando Building erecting Huge big of the Sax. Oga fright terrour as the old word Hugy terrible big of an affrighting terrible size V. 711. Rose like an Exhalation Came up on a suddain like a mighty Mist out of the warm Womb where it was founded Exhalatio Lat. for a Fogg or Mist drawn out of the moisture of the Earth V. 712. Of Dulcet Symphonies Of sweet Harmonies and Concordance Dulcet pleasing charming of Dulcis Lat. sweet Symphonies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sound a Voice an Agreeing and Justness in Time and Tune V. 713. Where Pilasters round Set about with little Pillars of Pilasire Fr. from the Lat. Pila call'd by Vitruv. Parastatae V. 714. Doric Pillars Pillars carved according to the Doric Order Doria was part of Greece where the Doric Dialect prevailed so named of one of their Kings Dorus The Grecians were the most renowned Architects of Antiquity and the Terms belonging to that Noble Art are from them transmitted down to us hence to this Day the Doric and Corinthian Orders have their Names V. 715. Architrave A word used by Builders of the Fr. or It. Architrave the Head or Chapiter of a Pillar V. 716. Cornice An Architectonick Term signifying the Brow or Projection of a Pillar or Wall of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the end and finishing of a thing so Homer describing the Palace of Alcinous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Mart. Si nimius videor serâque Coronide longus Esse Liber Epig. Lib. 10. Where Farnaby Cornices ponebantur in calce Libri quasi signa absoluti Operis translatione ab aedificiis cujus jam absoluti fastigio apponebatur Cornix Ibid. Freeze That broad flat Band between the Cornice and the Architrave from the Fr. Frize as that from Freze a Ruff Others deduce it of the Ital. Freggio a Fringe it being one of the Ornamental parts of a Building Ibid. With Bossy Sculptures graven Adorned and set off with bold swelling Carved Work Bossé Fr. Imboss'd swelling out Sculptura Lat. Carving Graver Fr. to cut to carve to engrave V. 717. The Roof was Fretted Gold The Roof was covered over with Fret-Work all of Massie Gold Fretted of the It. Fratto of the Lat. Fractus broken it being a kind of Work full of many Breakin gs and
the transcendent Brightness blinded him A Light from Heaven passing the brightness of the Sun Acts 26. v. 3. V. 6. Bright Effluence c. Bright overflowing of the bright Uncreated Being Effluentia Lat. the Issue Offspring Efflux Of Essence increate Essentia increata Lat. GOD Almighty the Creator of all Things Himself uncreated and Self existent V. 7. Or hearst thou rather c. Or hadst thou rather be styl'd Pure Heavenly Stream whose Fountain Head who can declare According to that of Job Where is the way where Light dwelleth And where is the place of Darkness That thou shouldest receive it in the Bounds thereof and that thou shouldest know the Paths to the House thereof ch 38. v. 19 and 20. V. 9. Before the Sun before the Heavens c. Before the shining Sun or rouling Heavens thou wert and at the Voice of God as with a Garment didst array the World arising from the Womb of Waters gained from the empty and unfinished Deep A noble Idea of Light the usefullest Ornament of the Creation without which it had been but a sad Night-piece Many of the Fathers both Greek and Latin were of opinion that the Primitive Light created on the first Day was the Light of the Sun imperfect and unfinished which as it contradicts the Narrative of Moses who tells us That the Sun and the Moon the two great Lights were made on the fourth Day so it derogates from the Majesty of the Great Maker of the Universe that any thing on which his Omnipotent Fiat was pronounced should come forth unfinished That this first Light was not the Sun but a shining bright Body like a radiant Cloud moving about the Earth and distinguishing Day from Night before the forming of the Sun and other Planets is the Opinion of Bede in his Exem Bonaventure Nicol. de Lyra and Tostatus with many of the School-Divines and of this Opinion was our Author as at large he expresseth it where he handles the Creation in his Seventh Book Light from her Native East To journey through the Airy Gloom began Spheared in a radiant Cloud for yet the Sun Was not According to Moses Cosmopoiaea Gen. 1. v. 3 and 14. V. 10. As with a Mantle didst invest As with a Glorious Mantle didst cover the dark World coming out of the deep Womb of Waters Our Poet useth the Word Invest B. 1. V. 208. While Night invests the Sea there Night throws her dark Coverture o're the Waters here Light with her glorious Garb arrays the Infant World just at its Birth arising from the dark Deep and the same Word does well express the Metaphor in both places Mantle of Manteau Fr. of Mantelum Lat. a Cloak V. 11 and 12. The rising World c. Won from the Void c. A nobler Description of Chaos than any made before and not inferiour to that of the Sublime and Poetical Job 12. v. 22. He discovereth the deep Places from their Darkness and bringeth forth the shadow of Death to Light V. 13. Thee I revisit now Thee O holy heavenly Light I visit now again more joyful since I escaped from the black Stygian Lake Revisitare Lat. V. 15. Though long detain'd in that obscure Sejourn Though long Imprison'd in Hell's dark Dungeon Detain'd Detentus Lat. kept with-held Sejourn stay of the Fr. Sejourner to stay it to remain in a place V. 17. With other Notes than to the Orphean Lyre While pursuing my strange Subject through Hell the utter and through the void empty Gulf the middle Darkness I sung of Chaos and everlasting Night in Strains more lofty and sublime than Orpheus ever Tuned his famous Harp to Orpheus is reckoned the Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope an excellent Poet and Philosopher as those famous ones of Antiquity were Sylvestres homines sacer interpresque Deorum Caedibus victu faedo deterruit Orpheus Dictus ob hoc lenire tygres rabidosque Leones Hor. de Arte Poet. The Barbarity of the Age he lived in was so Civilized by his Moral Instructions couched under his charming Odes that he was said to make the Woods dance after him by reducing Men from those Salvage Abodes into Civil Societies Unde Vocalem temeré insecutae Orphea Sylvae Blandum auritas fidibus Canoris Ducere quercus Carm. l. Od. 12. The Poets feigned him to have followed his Wife-Eurydice down to the Shades below and to have obtained her return by his commanding Musick on condition he looked not on her till their arrival at the light which Condition the fond Husband breaking she was ravished back again for ever from him to this fabulous descent of his into Hell which our Poet in his two former Books has been busied in describing it is that he refers to in this place Read his Story in the admirable Virgil. Taenarias etiam fauces alta ostia Ditis Et caligantem nigra formidine lucum Ingressus manesque adiit regemque tremendum c. Geor. 4. Lyre a Harp of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Hence one Tribe of the Poets are called Lyricks V. 20. To reascend thô hard and rare Thô difficult and unusual from thence to arise up again Reascend of the Particle Re signif again and Ascendere Lat. to rise an Imitation of Virgil. Facilis decensus Averni Sed revocare gradus superasque evadere ad auras Hic labor hoc Opus est Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter AEn 6. V. 22. And feel thy Sov'ran Vital Lamp And feel thy comfortable enlivening Warmth Vital Vitalis Lat. lively or enlivening Lamp a Fire Torch or Light of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from its shining V. 25. So thick a Drop serene hath quench'd their Orbs The French express incurable Blindness by Goutte serene and explain it by a thick and continual dropping from the Head by which the Optick Nerve is stopt and choak'd that all Sight is thereby hindred and irrecoverably lost Serene of the Fr. Serain and the Ital. Sereno not of the Lat. Serenus fair clear signifying the Mildew or hurtful Dew that falls in the Evenings sometimes to which our Author compares the noxious Distillation that from his Head fell down into the Optick Nerve and choak'd its perspicuous Passage of the Lat. Serum Ibid. Quench'd their Orbs Light and Fire are by Nature so near of Kin that the Metaphor of Quenching the Eye-sight is easie and proper enough most Person 's Eyes have a shineing and many a sparkling darting Light especially in Youth that issueth from them So Virgil calls Turnus his Ardentes Ocalorum acies AEn 12. Inflam'd with Anger Orbs Orbes Lat. the shining Circles of the Eyes V. 26. Or dim Suffusion veil'd Or a dark Veil o'respread or a black Film like a Veil has o'regrown the shining Circles of mine Eyes and clouded 'em with everlasting Night Suffusion of Suffusio Lat. an overspreading a covering of Suffundere Lat. to cover over At si virgineum suffuderit ora ruborem Ventus
Telassar Isai. 37. Vers. 12. Haran and Canneh and Eden Ezech. 27. Vers. 23. That the Eden in these Texts was not the same with that where Gods Garden Paradise was planted Cajetan would infer from its being so populous when the Flaming Sword rendered the other both uninhabitable and inaccessible which was true before the Deluge but Paradise being by that defaced and as our Poet supposes By might of Waves remov'd Out of his place push'd by the Horned Flood With all its Verdure spoiled and Trees adrift c. Book 11. What might hinder it from being inhabited and from either regaining or retaining the Name of Eden as the most pleasant rich best watered and thence the most fruitful Country imaginable V. 218. The Tree of Life c. of Vegetable Gold Satan by his malicious cunning designing as much as in him lay to undermine and invalidate the Credit of the Holy Text promoted among the Heathen Poets many strange Fictions that seem borrowed or imitated from the Sacred Writers as their Nectar and Ambrosia Nepenthe and the wonderful Herb Mâ—ly by Hâ—siod Homer c. The Imitations of this wonderful Tree Just. Mart. in his Second Apol. for the Christ. Of Vegetable Gold of growing Gold according to the conceit of the Chymists that their Aurum Potabile their Liquid Gold is the highest Preservative able to cure all Diseases and to postpone Old Age and Death for a long time Vegetable Vegetabilis Lat. any thing that grows encreaseth and flourisheth and is productive of its kind as Plants and Trees that have a Vegetative Being V. 221. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as term'd Gen. 2. Vers. 9. By the Hebraism of Good and Evil is meant the Knowledge of all things that there was but one Tree of this sort to the intent that it might be more remarkable and that Adam by no mistake might pretend ignorantly so much as to touch it is very probable but of what kind it was few are so daring as to determine This fatal Tree to pass over the idle Inventions of the Rabbins had its Name of the Knowledge of Good and Evil as some imagine from that sad Experimental Knowledge that our first Father found by eating its forbidden Fruit Of Good the Favour of God and happy Innocence lost and the Evil of Sin and his Makers Displeasure and Wrath incurr'd as our Author Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing Ill. Others are of Opinion it was so named either by deceived Adam himself or at least by Moses the Writer of his Story by way of Anticipation as an Everlasting Monument of the Glozing Lyes of the Tempter who was a Deceiver from the beginning and had promised Eve that their Eyes should be opened and they should be as Gods knowing Good and Evil Gen. 3. Vers. 5. And the Ironical sad Sarcasm is carried on Vers. 22. And the Lord God said Behold the Man is become as one of us to know Good and Evil. Rupert Tostat. Pererius c. V. 223. Southward through Eden The great River Euphrates which runs Southward through Mesopotamia Gen. 2. Vers. 10. V. 224. Through the shaggy Hill Was not diverted or turned aside but made its way through the hairy Hill o'ergrown with Trees and leavy Bushes Shaggy of the Sax. Sceaega the Hair and Fleece of Beasts Metaphorically as before Whose hairy sides with Thicket overgrown Vers. 135. V. 225. Ingulft Swallow'd up of the Fr. Goulfe of the Lat. Gula the Gullet Engoufrer Fr. to draw or suck in V. 227. Upon the Rapid Current On the swift stream Rapid of the Lat. Rapidus swift an usual Attribute of Rivers Rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxem Virg. Ecl. 1. Current the Stream or Channel of a River à Currendo from its running swiftest there V. 228. Of Porous Earth c. Which drawn up by gentle heat through the Veins of the hollow Earth rose like a sweet Spring and water'd the lovely Garden Porous of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Passage and Way whence those small and imperceptible passages through the Skin in Human Bodies by which any thing is received or ejected as Sweat and other Excrementitious Matters are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pass through Water is said by our Philosophick Poet to run through the Earth in the Veins of the Macrocosm and thence as it were drawn up and exhaled by the Suns kindly Heat the Efficient Cause of Drought and Thirst to break forth in fresh and cooling Fountains wat'ring its Verdant Plains and Fruitful Surface V. 229. A Rill Is a little purling Stream a small shallow River Rill a Contraction of Rivulus Lat. V. 231. Down the steep Glade Fell down the steep Mountains side where it had worn a Way A Glade is an open place made in a Wood by lopping the Trees or cutting some of 'em down Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Bough 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying to make a Glade The River here is said to fall down the steep Glade by washing down all that stood in its way and over-bearing the Trees that opposed its precipitate fall from the steep side of Paradise V. 232. Which from its darksom passage In which it past diving through the obscure Hill V. 233. Into four main Streams Into four large Currents according to Gen. 2. Vers. 10. so irreconcilable to any Country that our Poet wisely avoids giving any further account of 'em though Sir Walter Rawleigh with the greatest probability the undiscovered place is capable of seems to make Euphrates and Tigris both in Mesopotamia satisfie the Text Hist. of the World Book 1. Chap. 3. Sect. 11. But I will not enter on the inextricable difficulty but leave the Rivers to wander their own way Quaque caput rapido tollit cum tigride magnus Euphrates quos non diversis fontibus edit Persis Luc. Lib. 3. V. 237. How from that Saphire Fount From that clear Fountain how the curling Brooks Running o'er shining Pearl and Golden Sands With various Windings under hanging Groves Conveyed delicious Nourishment t' each Plant. Saphire Clear see Book 2. Vers. 1050. Crisped Curled wrinkled as Water is by the Wind or little purling Brooks by opposition of Stones c. lying in their watry way of the Lat. Crispatus curled like Hair V. 238. And Sands of Gold Conformable to the Traditions of the Tagus Pactolus Hermus and other Rivers ennobled by the Poets for the Gold found among their Sands Passaque ab auriferis tellus exire Metallis Pactolon Quâ culta secat non vilior Hermus Luc. Lib. 3. Auro turbidus Hermus Geor. 2. Pactolusque irrigat auro AEn 11. V. 239. With Mazie Error With various Turnings with intricate Wandrings Mazie see Book 2. V. 561. Pendant Shades Trees hanging over the Streams or growing on that Ground the Brooks past under The Shadow for the Tree that casts it frequent with the Poets Aut viridi fontes induceret umbrâ Virg. Ecl. 9. A
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Inde datum Nymphae Nyseides antris Occuluere suis lactisque alimenta dedere Meta. Lib. 3. V. 276. Where old Cham Ammon call and Lybian Jove Cham or Ham the second Son of Noah therefore styled Old Peopled Egypt and Lybia and was the most Ancient and Renowned of all the Jupiters He of the Grecians and Romans being an Upstart in Comparison living not long before the Trojan War as is evident by his Sons Castor Pollux Hercules Sarpedon and others employed in it Ammon therefore is not to be fetch'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Sand because his famous Temple was seated in the Sandy Desarts of Lybia but of Ham with the Greek Termination made Hammon and so Ammon Chammon or Chammoun in the Coptick Tongue though a seeming Derivative of the Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heat is undoubtedly to be referr'd to this great Cham. Templum Lybicis quod Gentibus unum c. Quamvis AEthiopum Populis Arabumque Beatis Gentibus atque Indis unus fit Jupiter Ammon Luc. Lib. 9. See the Description of this Temple in Q. Curt. Lib. 4. Gentiles Gentes Lat. the Nations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the People that knew not the true God the Heathen Idolaters V. 278. Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son c. Our Author follows the relation of Diodorus Siculus Lib. 2. Cap. 5. of this Lybian Jupiter who is said to have been a King of that Country Married to Rea the Daughter of Saturn from whose Jealous Eyes he hid his Mistress Amalthea and her Son Bacchus the Planter of Vines and Deity of Drunkards in the beautiful Island Nyse lying in the River Triton The same Story is translated by Sir Walter Rawleigh History of the World Book 1. Chap. 6. Sect. 5. Amalthea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. was a beautiful Lady whom in recompence of her Favours her beloved Jupiter made Queen of a fruitful Country which lying in the shape of a Bulls Horn gave occasion to the Proverb Amaltheae Cornu and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. to grow rich Florid Floridus Lat. gay Iusty V. 279. Young Bacchus The famous God of Wine too well known all over the World and too much worshipp'd The Poets generally report him the Son of Jupiter and Semele c. as also Rhea the Wife of Saturn and Mother of Jupiter confounding their fabulous Histories of their dark Idolatries Stepdame a Mother in Law of Stief Belg. and Dame Fr. a Mistress a rigid stiff and cruel Mother V. 280. Where Abassin Kings Where the Kings of Ethiopia kept under sweet retirement their Royal Sons on Mount Amara encompass'd round with Alabaster Rocks a whole Days Journey high though this by some was taken to be Paradise under the burning Line by Niles long-hidden Head but distant far from this fair Syrian Garden c. The Upper Ethiopia the Dominion of Prester John was anciently called Abassine of its chief River Abas and Abissinia is the Name of one of its Kingdoms Issue of the Fr. Issue Children Successors of Issir and this of the Lat. Exire to go out from to proceed from as Children from their Parents Guard keep under Confinement of the Fr. Garder to watch to secure V. 281. Mount Amara Amara is a Province about the middle of the higher Ethiopia and one of the 70 petty Kingdoms formerly Tributary and now annext to the Abassin Empire In it there is a Mountain of the same Name Hamhar about 90 Miles in compass and a Day◠Journey high with one only access and that impregnably fortified The Summit of this shining Rock is adorned with many beautiful Palaces a most delightful Place and charming Prospect where the Emperours Sons are carefully guarded and as diligently educated from whence the Eldest is taken to succeed his Father and others to succeed him if he die Childless V. 282. Under the Ethiop Line Under the Equinoctial Line the Fertility and wonderful Pleasantness of the Country giving occasion to Tertullian Bonaventure and Durandus to place Paradise under this Burning Line formerly thought uninhabitable though by Experience found to be fanned daily by a Cool Eastern Breeze the Nights being temperate by the entire Interposition of the Earth that no place is to be found on Earth that approaches nearer to the Nature Beauty and Abundance of Paradise than this Climate This Country of the Abissins lies under the Torrid Zone stretching from the Tropick of Cancer beyond the Equator Ethiop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. scorch'd and thence black and burnt according to the Complexions of its discoloured Inhabitants of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Countenance V. 283. By Nilus Head Near the Fountains of the Nile sought after by Sesostris Cambyses Alexander the Great and others though with small Satisfaction Non Fabula Mendax Ausa loqui de fonte tuo est ubicunque videris Quaereris Et nulli contingit Gloria genti Ut Nilo sit laeta suo Luc. Lib. 10. M. Thevenot tells us from the Report of an Ethiopian Ambassador he met at Grand Cairo that Nile has his Head in a great Well casting up its Water very high out of the Ground in a large Plain called Ovembromma in the Province of Ago This Well is 12 Days Journey from Gouthar the Capital of Ethiopia the Waters take their course Northward and pass by seven Cataracts before they enter Egypt The Country about this Well is so plain that there are no Mountains near it by three Weeks Journey It is on all Hands confirmed that the Cause of the Niles Annual Inundation is from the excessive Rains that fall in Ethiopia for three Months together in their Winter but the Egyptian Summer well affirm'd by Bapt. Scortia Lib. 2. Cap. 17. de Increm Nili Of Ethiopia being the Native Country of the Nile and of its rising by Rains the Ancients were of Opinion though not well assured AEthiopumque feris alieno gurgite Campos Et te terrarum nescit cui debeat Orbis Arcanum Natura Caput non prodidit ulli Nec licuit populis parvum te Nile videre Amovitque sinus gentes maluit ortus Mirari quam nosse tuos Consurgere in ipsis Jus tibi Solstitiis alienâ crescere brumâ Luc. Lib. 10. V. 284. Wide remote Far removed Remotus Lat. Assyrian Garden planted in Eden afterwards call'd Assyria bordering on Mesopotamia V. 289. Godlike erect Upright and tall not groveling on the Ground like other Creatures according to Ovid. Os homini sublime dedit Coelumque tueri Jussi erectos ad sidera tollere vultus Meta. Lib. 1. Well may he term our first Parents Godlike the Originals of Mankind made by God himself after his own Image it better suiting the Protoplast than its correspondent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any of the Homerick Heroes Erectus Lat. upright V. 290. In Naked Majesty A glorious Nakedness heightned and set off by spotless Innocence preferable to all the gawdy Disguises worn by
A Caravan of Kervan Turk is a company of Merchants travelling with a Guard of Soldiers for their security V. 430. So stears the prudent Crane c. Thus the wise careful Crane takes her Voyage yearly as well as the Swallow from one Country to another Stears since the motion of Birds Tayls first gave Invention to the Stearage of Ships Strimona sic gelidum bruma pellente relinquunt Poturae te Nile grues Luc. l. 5. Prudent because intelligent of Seasons and thence shifting the Climate Quales sub nubibus atris Strymoniae dant signa grues atque AEthera tranant Cum sonitu fugiunt que notos clamore secundo AEn 10. V. 432. The Air floats as they pass The Air waves under 'em beaten by innumerable Wings V. 434. Solac'd the Woods Chear'd the solitary Groves of Solari Lat. to comfort Longum cāntu solata laborem Geo. 1. V. 436. Tun'd her soft Lays Her pleasing Song Lays of the Fr. Lay an ordinary Song V. 438. The Swan with arched Neck c. The Swan with her bent Neck majestic placed between her Silver Wings with her Feet like Oars rows her self in state Arched Neck seems a more Graphical Description of this proud Bird than Homer's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Long-neck'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oary Feet from whence doubtless Oars were first imitated V. 441. The Dank They leave the Water the Moisture Dank wet of Damp Dan. a Vapour Pennons Bo. II. V. 933. V. 443. The crested Cock whose clarion sounds The warlike Cock crown'd with his bloody Crest whose shrill Trumpet distinguisheth the Hours that else would steal away in silence Crested Cristatus Lat. Clarion Bo. I. Vers. 532. Of this wakeful and wonderful Creature Pliny l. 10. c. 21. Proximè gloriam sentiunt hi nostri vigiles nocturni quos excitandis ad opera mortalibus rumpendoque somno natura genuit norunt sydera aeternas distinguunt hor as interdiu cantu cum sole eunt cubitum quartâque castrensi vigiliâ ad cur as laboresque revocant c. V. 446. Of Rainbows and Starry Eyes And th' other the Peacock whose gawdy Train is spangled with starry Eyes and adorn'd with circling Rainbows His Train was beset with Argus his hundred Eyes Excipit hos volucrisque suae saturnia pennis Collocat gemmis caudam Stellantibus implet Met. 1. Miraris quoties gemmantes explicat alas Met. l. 13. Hue Bo. l. Vers. 230. V. 447. With Fish replenish'd Abounding in Fish Of the Lat. Repletus filled full Solemnized of Solennisare Lat. to celebrate to sing and rejoyce V. 451. Let the Earth bring forth Fowl living 'T is unaccountable how our Author who has hitherto kept so close to the sacred Text should deviate from it here and make mention of Fowl when there is no such in Gen. 1. 24. where the Works of the Sixth Day are enumerated having treated of 'em but just before unless he would insinuate according to Gen. 2. 19. above cited that Fowl or at least some kinds of 'em were nearer of kin in their Original to Earth than Water which their Agility seems to contrary thô the Elements are no where so pure at least these two inferior but each has more or less some mixture of the other V. 454. Teem'd at a Birth Brought forth all at one Birth innumerable living Creatures The Heathen Poet Lucretius following Epicurus was of opinion That all manner of Animals in the beginning of the World sprang up out of the Earth by the wonderful Fertility of Nature new made and the first most powerful Influence and Efficacy of the Heavenly Bodies not discerning the Omnific Command and Concurrence of the Creator Nam neque de Caelo cecidisse animalia possunt Nec Terrestria de salsis exisse lacunis Linquitur ut merito maternum nomen adepta Terra sit è terrâ quoniam sunt cuncta creata Multaque nunc etiam existunt animalia terris Imbribus calido solis concreta vapore Quo minus est mirum si tum sunt plura coorta Et majora novâ tellure atque aethere adulta Lib. 5. Teem'd of Team Sax. Issue Offspring V. 455. Perfect Forms Creatures more perfect and compleat A difference Interpreters seem to draw from the words of Moses where he calls the Productions of the Water The moving Creature that hath life Gen. 1. 20. but Terrestrial Animals the Living Creature vers 24. as endued and informed with a more noble and perfect Being V. 457. From his Laire From his Den from the place where he Iieth Of Lager Ger. a Couch a Bed Wonns where he haunts Of Wunian Sax. to frequent to stay in V. 463. The grassy Clods now calv'd The Earth opening her fertile Womb as before brought forth living Creatures limb'd and at their full growth Calv'd of the Belg. Kalven to bring forth V. 466. Rampant shakes his Brinded Main Rising on his hind legs shakes his griezled Main Rampant is a Term in Heraldry for a Lion standing upright and pawing with his fore Feet Of the Fr. Ramper to climb Brinded enclining to Grey Ounce Book IV. Verse 344. Tawny Tane Fr. of a Chestnut colour is the usual Epithete of Lions according to their accustomed Colour Fulvum descendere monte Leonem AEn 4. Levia fulvae Colla jubae velant Met. l. 10. V. 467. The Libbard The Leopard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Beast of a curious spotted Skin Ex Leone Pardo natus Tigers Bo. IV. V. 344. All these rose like the Moal working their way out of the Earth Rose up as Plants V. 473. V. 471. Behemoth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. the Elephant the Plural of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. a Beast for his vastness seeming an Assembly of ' em Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee c. Job 40. 10. V. 473. Ambiguous between Sea and Land As doubtful to which most they owed their uncertain Original The Scaly Crocodile Crocodilus Lat. one of the dangerous Inhabitants of Nile but venturing often beyond his Banks Ambiguus Lat. doubtful V. 476. Insect Bo. IV. V. 704. The Insects are said to wave that is move their limber Fans for Wings those moving Membranes being more like Webs than Wings Ibid. And smallest Lineaments exact c. Exactly shaped in their fine Features nicely proportion'd and dress'd in Liveries adorn'd and trimm'd with Summer's gayest Pride with spots of Gold c. Lineaments Lineamenta Lat. the Features or Lines that distinguish one Face from another Azur Bo. I. V. 297. V. 480. These as a Line their long dimension The Worms drew their long Bodies like a Line and by their waving Slime mark'd out their indented winding way Dimensio Lat. a Measure in length With Sinuous Trace with winding Trail with waved Train Sinuous of Sinuosus Lat. winding Trace Tractus Lat. the same V. 482. Minims of Nature Not all small and inconsiderable for their size but some Serpents so called à Serpendo from their crawling and creeping and
called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Preheminence Dulcimer Of Dolcemelle Ital. an old Musical Instrument so named a Dulcedine Lat. of its Sweetness 598. Temper'd soft Tunings e. Join'd their soft Notes in Consort with Angelick Voices in full Quire or single sometimes Choral of Chorus Lat. a Quire Unison Unisonus Lat. of one Sound a Note Of Unus Lat. one and Sonus Lat. sound V. 608. Who can impair thee Who can lessen or diminish thee O thou Infinite and Almighty Impair Of Empirer Fr. to worst to hurt V. 619. On the clear Hyaline As before in wide Chrystalline Ocean Vers. 271. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revel 4. 6. And befere the Throne there was a Sea of Glass like unto Chrystal By some understood of the Chrystalline Heaven the Waters above the Firmament as our Author By others of the Empyrean Heaven the Heaven of Heavens from its Calmness Perspicuity and Solidity as well as largeness likened to a Glassy or Chrystalline Sea the Street of the Heavenly Jerusalem being said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 21. 21. Hyaline Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glassy Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Glass Hyali saturo fucata colore vellera Geor. 4. V. 623. Thou knowst their Seasons The Motions of the Stars and the Seasons of their Rising and Setting V. 628. In reward to rule over his Works c. Large and absolute was Adams Empire his Dominion reacht over the Fish of the Sea the Fowl of the Air and every living thing that moveth on the Earth Gen. 1. 28. and easie his Obedience bounded by one single Injunction Not to eat of one Tree rewarded not only by such a vast unlimited Power here but by absolute Happiness hereafter more Boundless and Eternal yet all this he forfeited tempted to Disobedience by one of his mean brute Subjects as to appearaace insomuch that he has lost the awe of his Earthy Empire to that degree as to be forc'd to use his utmost Powers of Body and Mind too all his Strength Reason and Subtilty to keep under those Animals that at first obey'd his Beck scorn'd and contemned to that degree of Derogation to his Power that feeble Insects Lice and Locusts are able to famish or eat up their Universal Lord. V. 634. Thus was Sabbath kept In these Holy Exercises was the first Sabbath celebrated A Portion of Time which was appropriated to the Service of him who is Eternal and which in Holy Writ he calls his own The Seventh day is the Sabbath of Rest it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your Dwellings Lev. 23. 3. Bold therefore was the Blasphemy of him who durst term it Lassati mollis Imago Dei Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because in it God rested from all the Works that he had made Gen. 2. 3. NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VIII Verse 1. MR. Hog who has crowded our Author's six last Books into four has joyn'd the Seventh and Eighth together omitting the first four Verses of this Book which to shew him that they are neither ungrateful nor untoward to turn are here render'd The Angel ended and in Adam 's Ear So charming left his Voice that he a-while Thought him still speaking still stood fix'd to hear Then as new-wak'd thus gratefully reply'd Finierat caelo satus divina canoris Eloquiis bibulas vox sic pellexerat aures Ut nondum cessasse ratus stupefactus Adamus Auscultaret adhuc inhians fixusque maneret Dein velut evigilans grato sic pectore fatur V. 7. Divine Historian Relator of Things and Actions exceeding Human Knowledge Heavenly Historian of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a knowing Person V. 9. Condescention to relate c. Since thou hast been pleased thus friendly to humble and degrade thy lofty Understanding by stooping to my mean Capacity and human Measure in the relation of such high Mysteries to the knowledge whereof I could no other way attain Condescentio of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to to come down Solution Bo. VI. V. 694. Resolve of Resolvere Lat. to untie Doubts and hard Questions resembling Intricate Knots V. 18. An Atom When I compare the Heavens and the Earth and reckon what proportion this Globe of Earth and Water bears in bulk to the wide Firmament and those many Stars that come within my counting which seeming to move in Compasses so unconceivable only to enlighten for 24 hours this low dark Earth a meer bare Point in respect of those Circles immense and incomprehensible that surround her in their vast Journeys useless as to any thing else I cannot choose but wonder c. Atom Bo. II. V. 900. a Point as at V. 23. a Punctual Spot of Punctum Lat. a Point thô the compass of the Earth be reckon'd 8810 Leagues such as make 26400 Italian Miles yet in comparison of the Firmament it is but as a Point gather'd from half the Heaven being visible from any part of the Earth and from the Stars keeping the same size from what place soever they are observed Besides the Astronomers argue it to be no more in respect of the Sun's Sphear because the Shadow moves about the Central Point of a Dial as regularly as the Sun moves about the Earth's Center as if there were no difference between her Center and her Surface that Seneca had good reason to say Hoc est Punctum quod inter tot Gentes ferro igni dividitur â—O quam ridiculi sunt mortalium termini V. 19. And all her number'd Stars Not as if the Stars were numberable by any but him who telleth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by their names Psal. 147. 4. But the Earth is said to be but a Spot a Grain nay a meer Point if compared with the Firmament and those its Fixed Stars that come within the compass of Human Account reckon'd to be 1022 and those so vast that they of the sixth size the smallest discoverable by the naked and unassisted Eye are computed to exceed the Earth's whole Round 18 times those of the first Magnitude being 108 times bigger well then may the Earth appear a Central Spot to the unmeasurable Sphere in which these shine there being innumerable others their Companions by their vast distance invisible without the admirable Invention of Glasses V. 20. Spaces incomprehensible The vast compass the Fixed Stars take in 24 hours is to Mankind most unimaginable their distance from us being such that whole Herds of 'em are undiscoverable without Telescopes and some most probably removed beyond their reach and the sufficiency of Human Sight Incomprehensibilis Lat. unconceivable V. 22. To officiate Light To administer Light round Earth's dark Globe according to the Ptolemaic and Vulgar System where the Earth is Center'd in the middle of the World 's wide Frame round which unmoveable the Sun Moon and Stars Fix'd and Erratic wheel
a Wilderness of Wet produced as to have overwhelm'd the whole Earth 15 Fathoms above the highest Hills And thô this Opinion forceth 'em not only to open the Windows of Heaven but to make wide and unanswerable Breaches through the Inferior Orbs nay and to make use of God's high hand to depress the motion of these Waters which could not in 40 days no not in 100 years falling have prevailed so eminently over the haughty Hill as Dr. Gregory one of its Maintainers confesses according to received Nature and the ordinary course of Motion yet fortifying their Opinion by divers Texts of Scripture as of God's laying the beams of his chambers in the great waters Psal. 10. 4. 3. and that of the Angel How many springs are above the fâ—rmament 2 Esdr. 4. 7. they seem to satisfie themselves in that of which no Man can be sure If the Astronomical Supposition that the Earth compared with the Heavens is but a Spot a Point have any Truth in it 't is easie enough to imagine how the greatest part of the vast Aërial Expanse condens'd into continual Rains and assisted by the Sea and all its Subterraneous Sourses might raise so vast an Invasion able to over-run the whole Earth with that dreadful Inundation V. 826. Heave the Ocean to usurp Shall swell the ocean to invade Earth's Territories beyond Nature's Laws and Boundaries Usurpare Lat. to seize upon what is not our own A word well chosen to express the Preternatural Invasion of the Waters over the Dry Land 's ancient Right Ocean Bo. 1. v. 202. Inundatio Lat. the overflowing of the Sea V. 830. Push'd by the horned Flood Great Rivers are by the Poets express'd in the shape of Bulls and stiled Horned to denote the strength and violence of Torrents Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus Hor. Carm. 4. Od. 14. Gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu Eridanus Geo. 4. Corniger Hesperidum Fluvius Regnator aquarum AEn 8. Well then may our Author suppose the Deluge that General Assembly of all the Seas and all other Tributary Rivers able to displace Paradise Verdure of Verdure Fr. greeness Viriditas Lat. adrift driven away V. 832. Down the great River Down the great River Tigris into the Persian Gulf where he emptieth his open mouth V. 833. An Island Salt c. Salt according to its situation in the Sea Insula quasi in salo sita Sir Walter Rawleigh is of opinion That the Flood might spoil the Beauty and destroy the Plenty of Paradise but not so displace and remove it from its Original Site but that it may still be very well known Haunt Bo. 3. v. 27. V. 834 Seals and Ores and Sea-mews clang Now frequented by Sea-monsters and wild Birds Seales of Sel and Selhund Dan. a Sea-calf Phoca Lat. Ores of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a great Fish Enemy to the Whale Sea-mew a Sea-bird so called of Sea and Mew a word coin'd of their Note Clang Bo. 7. v. 422. Attributes Bo. 8. v. 565. Nunc ibi deformes ponunt sua corpora phocae Met. 1. V. 839. Hull on the Flood Swim to and fro on the Deluge Hull of Hollen Belg. to run apace Abated grew less of Abbatre Fr. to beat down V. 841. Driven by a keen North Wind The North is a clearing Wind that dissipates the Clouds thence said to blow dry and therefore by Ovid in Dcucalion's Deluge lock'd up Protinus AEoliis Aquilonem claudit in antris Et quaecunque fugant inductas flamina nubes Met. 1. Nimbisque aquilone remotis Ibid. V. 842. Wrinkled the face of Deluge Gen. 8. 1. Made the Deluge grow wrinkled signs of of its decaying and growing old Wrinkles metaphorically thô natural to Water furrow'd with the Wind applied to the decreasing Flood being the marks of old Age preying on the plumpness of Faces formerly fine and smooth Deluge Bo. 1. v. 68. V. 843. The Sun on his watry Glass The Sun warming the Waters by beholding his glorious Face in that large Looking-glass exhaled great quantities of 'em by his Potent Beams Ergo ubi diluvio tellus lutulenta recenti Solibus aetheriis altoque recanduit aestu Met. 1. V. 846. To tripping Ebbe Which made the mighty Flood shrink from a vast Universal Lake to a soft gentle Ebbe that insensibly stole away Tripping of To trip to go softly on the Toes end of Tripudiare Lat. to dance Lake Bo. 1. v. 229. Flumina subsidunt Met. 1. V. 851. Tops of Trees as Rocks Which expresses the Sea-Scene better than Ovid's Postque diem longam nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt Ibid. V. 854. A Raven flies Gen. 8. 7. V. 856. A Dove sent forth c. Gen. 8. 8 10. V. 859. An Olive Leaf Pacific Sign Gen. 8. 11. Sign of Peace of God's Mercy to Mankind the Olive was sacred to Pallas and born by those that sued for Peace as being the Emblem of it and Plenty Placitam paci nutritor olivam Geo. 2. Ramis velatos Palladis omnes AEn 7. Pacific Pacificus Lat. Peaceful V. 865. A Bow conspicuous with three listed Colours A Bow remarkable for its gawdy Verge stain'd with three shaded Colours Three listed Colours like a List of three Colours List of Lez Fr. the edge or brim of Cloth Conspicuous Bo. 2. v. 258. Erst Bo. 1. v. 359. V. 879. Distended as the Brow of God appeas'd Arched like the Eye-brows of God reconcil'd as many things are spoken of God after the manner of Men. As his eyes are said to behold and his eye-lids to try the children of men Psal. 11. 4. Distended Distentus Lat. stretched out V. 880. As a floury Verge to bind c. Or do those colour'd Streaks in Heaven serve like a flourish'd Border to bind up the bottom of that watry Cloud lest it should break and wet the Earth again Verge of Virga Lat. a Twig of which Bandages are made Fluid Bo. 7. v. 236. V. 883. Dextrously thou aimest Thou judgest luckily or properly Aimest taking aim at a Mark being something like giving a guess at things Dextrously Dexterè Lat. happily V. 886. Grieved at his Heart It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 6. V. 887. The whole Earth fill'd with Violence c. God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt and the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 11 12. V. 891. And makes a Covenant c. And I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth c. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flloud neither shall there be any more a floud to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 9 10 11. V. 895. A Cloud will therein set his triple-colour'd Bow That the Rain-bow and its various Colours proceed from the Reflection of the Sun's Beams beaten back by a watry