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
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
the Sax. Daegian to grow day V. 1038. Her fardest Verge Here the Creation and all Created Nature have their utmost Bounds Fardest is the Superlative of Far from the Sax. Feor or the Belg. Varre distant from Verge of the Fr. Verge and this is of the Lat. Virga a Rod is in our Law-Books called Virgata and is the compass of the King's Court whose most considerable Officers carry Virga's i. e. White Staffs to denote their Authority See Stat. 33 Hen. 8. c. 12. V. 1039. As from her utmost c. Retreating like an Enemy beaten from his Out-works V. 1040. With less Hostile Din With less furious Noise Hostile Din such a violent Clamour and Shout as Engaging Armies make Hostilis Lat. of Hostis Lat. an Enemy Din of the Sax. Dyn a Noise coined of such a sort of Sound as the Lat. Tinnio is V. 1042. Wafts on the calmer Wave Sails more easily or'e the smoother Sea more swift Wings through the gentle Air his way I have shewed before that Flying and Sailing are Metaphors convertible and used alternately by the Poets Calmer of Calm of the Fr. Calme gentle smooth applicable both to the Seas and Skies as depending on the Winds which raise and trouble both it is very probable that the Original is from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. heat of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to burn because in great heats the Weather is generally calm from want of Wind. Waft seems a Derivative of Wave a dancing o're the Waves V. 1044. Holds gladly the Port And like a Weather-beaten Ship is got safe into Harbour where the Sailers rejoyce thô damaged in her Sails and Rigging Shrouds are the Sails the Cloathing of the Ship of the Sax. Scrud Cloathing Tackle of the Belg. Taeckel a Rope V. 1045. Or in the emptier Waste Or in the thinner Space much like the Air poises his out-stretch'd Wings flaps his broad Wings poizing himself Waste of the Belg. Waest empty desolate of the Lat. Vastus great wide Resembling Ressemblant Fr. like to V. 1048. In Circuit undetermin'd Square Stretch'd out wide in compass hard to determine whether square or round as to its Shape and Figure Circuit of Circuitus Lat. the compass of a City or any Inclosure What Figure the Empyreal Heaven is of may be very hard to determine but the Héavenly Jerusalem described in the Revelations is said to be four-square Revel 21. v. 16. Square of the Ital. Squadrare the corruption of Quadrare Lat. to square Round Fr. Rond of Rotundus Lat. of a Circular Shape V. 1049. With Opal Towers With Towers of Precious Stones Opal Lat. Opalum a Stone of divers Colours partaking of the Carbuncles faint Fire the Amethists shining Purple and the Emralds pleasing Green V. 1050. Of Living Saphire Beautiful with Pinacles and Turrets of never-decaying Saphire Living Saphire bright and chearful full of Strength and Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a precious Stone so named of its clearness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. bright perspicuous Battlements are Ornaments set on the Walls of great Cities Castles and other Noble Structures principally intended for Security against Assaults thence a Derivative of the Word Battel of the Lat. Batuere to sight Ibid. His Native Seat The Place of his Birth the Country of his Creation Heaven the Place of his former Happiness Nativus Lat. V. 1051. In a Golden Chain Our Poet seems to have borrowed this Golden Chain of Homer where he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter says if all the Gods with the Earth and the Sea hung upon a Golden Chain he would Pull 'em all up into Heaven c. V. 1052. This Pendant World This well-poized World the self-ballanc'd Earth Ponderibus librata suis Met. l. 1. Of which Job gives us the best account That God hangeth the Earth on Nothing c. 26. v. 7. And c. 38. v. 6. he dares Human Understanding to determine Whereupon are the Foundations thereof set or who laid the Corner-Stone thereof Ibid In bigness as a Star of smallest Magnitude In bulk like a Star of smallest size Many Stars not only of the first Magnitude but of smaller Sizes surpass and exceed the whole World by many Degrees as the Celestial Surveyors of the Heavens assure us the Earth being but a meer Point compared with the Firmament Gassend l. 1. c. 3. Stars of the first Greatness are 108 times as big as the Earth and those of the sixth Size 18 times yet is the Moon reckoned to be 39 times less than the Earth and is commonly accounted the Planet whose Sphear is nearest to it Gass. l. 2. c. 14. V. 1055. He hies He makes hast he makes all the speed he can of the Sax. Higan to use diligence NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK III. Verse 1. HAil Holy Light c. Hail Divine Light Illustrious First-born of the Almighty Word Oh thou bright Beam of everlasting Purity thy self as everlasting Hail the old word used in Salutations answering to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Greeks and the Roman Salve of the Sax. Hael Health By this Hail the former of 'em is interpreted in the Salutation of the Angel Gabriel to the Mother of our Blessed Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 1. v. 28. mentioned by our Author in his Fifth Book On whom the Angel Hail Bestow'd the Holy Salutation used Long after to Blest Mary second Eve Ibid. First-born Light was doubtless the first and brightest Birth of Heaven without which even the Deity himself is inconceivable Speak not of GOD without Light was Plato's saying and what is there among all his Creatures so expressive of his Goodness Omniscience and Purity Who covereth himself with Light as with a Garment Psal. 104. v. 3. Light as to the Creation of this lower World was the first of all the Creatures that had the Almighty Fiat pronounced at its Production Then God said Let there be Light and there was Light Gen. 1. 3. So our Poet Forthwith Light Etherial first of all Things sprung from the Deep V. 2. Coeternal Thou bright Beam as everlasting as thy everlasting Father GOD Almighty Coaeternus Lat. of the same duration with Eternity V. 3. May I express thee unblam'd c. Blameless may I declare thee because God himself is Light and from Eternity in amazing brightness disdaining all approach of Human Eyes dwelt from Eternity dwelt then in the bright Emanation of the brightest Being Eternal Uncreate Ibid. GOD is Light Nothing can give us a clearer Idea of the Divine Incomprehensible Being than Light See him described His Brightness was as the Light Hab. 3. v. 4. God is Light and in him is no Darkness 1 John 1. v. 5. Every perfect Gift cometh from the Father of Lights Jam. 1. v. 17. V. 4. In unapproached Light Who dwelleth in the Light that none can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. v. 16. When our Saviour appeared to St. Paul
ye stately Pines Et rigidas motâ—re cacumina quercus Ecl. 6. Factis modò Laurea ramis Annuit Utque caput visa est agitasse cacumen Met. Lib. 1. To Wave is to move a Wave being nothing but Water put into motion of the Sax. Wagian to be in motion or to move to and fro V. 196. Mellodious Murmur Ye little purling Rills that by your Motion make a pleasing sound Ceu Saxa Morantur Cum rapidos amnes Clauso fit gurgite Murmur AEn 11. Is not half so sweet as the Harmonious Complaint seeming to be made by Rivers interrupted in their Watry Way V. 200. Ye that in Waters glide c. Fish and Beasts and creeping things V. 204. Made Vocal by my Song made to resound and eccho forth thy Praise taught by my assiduous and repeated Song Horace gave Ears to the Woods that danc'd after Orpheus Auritas Fidibus Canoris Ducere quercus Carm. Lib. 1. Od. 12. And Milton here mentions the Voices inhabiting in Hills and Woody Shades Cujus recinet jocosa Nomen imago Aut in umbrosis Heliconis Oris Aut super Pindo Gelidove in Haemo Hor. Ibid. Vocal Vocalis Lat. Endow'd with a Voice so he calls the Divine Poet Vocalem Orphea Hor. Ibid. and the Nerves instrumental to the Formation of Speech are call'd Nervi Vocales V. 214. Their pamper'd Boughs their wanton luxurious Branches abounding in Leaves Pamper'd of the Ital. Pamberato fat or of Pamprer Fr. to be full of Leaves of Pampinus Lat. a Vine-Leaf Tibi Pampineo gravis Autumno Floret ager Georg. 2. V. 216. The Vine to wed her Elm Used not only to support Vines but to ennoble and meliorate them Longo usu compertum Nobilia Vina non nisi in arbustis gigni in his quoque Laudatiora summis sicut uberiora imis Adeo excelsitate proficitur hac ratione arbores Eliguntur Prima omnium Ulmus Deinde Populus nigra c. Plin. l. 17. c. 23. Viribus eniti quarum contemnere ventos Assuescant summasque sequi tabulata per Ulmos Geor. 2. Illa tibi laetis intexet vitibus Ulmos Ibid. V. 217. Her Marriageable Arms. Ergo aut adultâ vitium propagine Altas Maritat Populos Hor. Epod. 2. Inde ubi jam validis amplexae stirpibus Ulmos Exierint Geo. 2. Haec quoque quae junctâ vitis requiescit in Ulmo Si non nupta foret terrae acclinata jaceret Met. 14. V. 218. Her Dow'r th' adopted Clusters the fruitful Vine brings her Grapes her Noble Off-spring as her Dower adopted by the barren Elm. Dower or rather Dowry properly signifies the Portion a Woman brings her Husband in Marriage Dower being that setled on her in lieu thereof for her life if she survive him It is of the Lat. Dos and this of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to give Conjugium quaesitas sanguine Dotes AEn 7. Et numeras in Dote triumphos Juv. Sat. 10. Adopted of adoptare Lat. to take into ones care as a Son Adoptati were such who for their Courage Virtuous Education and promising Parts were by the Childless Romans chosen out of other Families to heir the Estates of those who did adopt 'em and past into their Power as absolutely as if begotten by 'em better pleased that Nature left them the choice of a Successor than if she had imposed and entailed one on them unworthy perhaps of their Famous Ancestors V. 221. Raphael the Sociable Spirit the Friendly Angel Raphael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Health of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to heal by the Cabalists he is made Governor of the West Part of Heaven and Ruler of the Coolihg Zephirus the soft gentle Wind named Fovonius à Favendo of his cherishing Influence Scciable Socialis or Sociabilis Lat. Friendly of Socius Lat. a Companion Tob. 5. Vers. 4. V. 223. The seven-times Wedded-Maid Sarah Tob. 7. Vers. 11. V. 232. To respit with repast with Food and rest interrupting his Days Work Repast Repas Fr. a Meal of Repascere to feed V. 238. He swerve not too secure he depart not from his Duty through too much Security and Presumption Swerve of the Bel. Swerven to wander to go astray V. 249. Thousand Coelestial Ardors but from among a Multitude of Heavenly Angels well exprest by Ardors Ardor Lat. Brightness Fervency Exceeding Love c. to which the Angelick Excellency may well be assimulated in respect of their Purity Activity and Zeal His Ministers a Flame of Fire Psal. 104. Vers. 4. Hebr. 1. Vers. 7. Ardor is by Virgil used for Fire Cui Pineus Ardor acervo Pascitur AEn 11. Thence expressive of any Passionate Impulse Idem omnes simul ardor habet AEn 4. V. 254. The Gate self open'd of its own accord the Gate opened wide Hung on Homer's Hinges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 257. To obstruct his sight no Cloud or Star stood in his way to hinder his Immortal Eye Obstructs of obstruere Lat. to build before to take away ones Prospect to stop up Placidasque viri Deus obstruit aures AEn 4. V. 259. Not unconform c. He sees how ever small shewing but like a Point the Earth not unlike other shining Globes and in it Paradise the Garden of God Not unconform not unsuitable of in Lat. un and conformis Lat. alike This resemblance of the Earth to other shining Coelestial Bodies here hinted at is more largely treated of Book 8. Vers. 140. What if that Light Sent from her the Earth through the wide transpicious Air To the Terrestrial Moon be as a Star Enlightning her by Day as she by Night This Earth And that faint Light which in the New and Waning Moon in spight of her Silver Horns discovers to us her darker Disk formerly reputed her Native Luster now called her Secundary Light is found to be reflected from the Earth upon her when nearer us she moves within the Region of this Terrene Reflection Gassend Lib. 2. Inst. Astron. V. 262. Of Galileo less assured The Angel in his flight from Heav'n discovering the Earth is compared to Galileo the Italian Astronomer Native of Florence and Professor at Padua whose Glass is said to be less assured that is not so infallible and undeceivable as the Angelick Opticks though it gave him so clear a prospect of the Moon that he affirms Ex quo deinde sensatà certitudine quispiam intelligat Lunâ—m superficie leui perpolitâ nequaquam esse indutam sed aspera inaequali ac veluti ipsusmet Telluris facies ingentibus tumoribus profundis lacunis atque anfractibus undiquaque confertam Galil Nunc. Syd Hence these Imagin'd Lands and Regions in the Moon V. 264. The Cyclades are the Northern Islands in number about 53 lying in the form of a Circle in the Egean Sea so call'd of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Circle Sparsasque per aequor Cycladas crebris legimus freta consita terâ—is AEn 3. Pelago credas
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
27. 7. V. 106. For Uses to his Lord best known Thô the Heaven's wide Circuit does well demonstrate its Maker's high Magnificence yet Man is lodg'd in a sinall Apartment of it as unable to conceive the Uses the rest is ordain'd for as to fill so large an Edisice Nam quòd vastitas tanta reputetur superflua videri illos qui ità sentiunt summi Opificis magnificentiae injurios dum non capientes â—uorsum Deus tam amplum Mundum fecerit ejus patentiam sapientiamque ad sui captûs ad suae pâ—â—simoniae augustias deducunt Gass l. 3. c. 8. Edifice Edificium Lat. a Building V. 116. To shew invalid To shew the Reason you urged against the motion of so many glorious Bodies for the sake of one so mean and inconsiderable weak and of no force Invaâ—id Invalidus Lat. infirm V. 122. What if the Sun be center to the World According to Copernicus his Opinion thô first broach'd by Pythagords and Aristarchus two Samian Philosophers who placed the Sun in the center of the World's Frame immoveable as not departing thence thô proved to turn round on his Axle in the space of 27 days by the motion of his Spots discover'd by the Telescope V. 125. Incited dance about him And other Stars moved by their own Innate Vigour as well as the Sun 's Attractive Power and Magnetic Beams dance round him various turns Incited Incitatus stirred of Incitare Lat. to provoke V. 127. Progressive Retrograde c. The Planets are said to be Progressive or Direct Retrograde or Returning back Standing still or Statonary not that they really do so but because sometimes so situate that our Eyes cannot make a right judgment of their Motions Gassendus tells us five only of the Erratics are thus affected l. 2. c. 11. but something so like these Motions at least an extraordinary slowness is sometimes observable in the Moon that our Author according to the Opinion of others has added her to the number in six thou seest Progressive of Progredi Lat. to go forward Retrograde of Retrogredi Lat. to go backward V. 129. The Planet Earth And what if the wandring Earth should be a seventh Planet dancing round the Sun and althô she seem so fix'd and stedfast should move three different motions so gently as to be unfelt and unperceiv'd by thee The three different motions the Copernicans suppose in the Earth are the Diurnal the Earth's wheeling round on her own Axis Eastward and compleating her compass in 24 hours Her Annual Motion is her Progression through the Zodiac between Mars and Venus still turning Eastward finishing her Circle about the Sun in a Year Her third Motion is that of Inclination by which she keeps her Axis always Parallel to that of the World Planet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a wandring Star V. 132. With thwart Obliquities If the Earth move not those three Motions they must be ascribed to several other Spheres intangled and incumber'd with strange contrary crooked and indirect Wheelings crossing and thwarting one another intricate and unimaginable Obliquities Obliquitas Lat. crookedness V. 134. Nocturnal and Diurnal Romb Or the Earth must save the Sun his infinite labour and the Primum Mobile or First Mover too that turns the mighty Sphere on which depends the Wheel that guides the Intercourse of Day and Night The First Mover or Primum Mobile is a vast Sphere a Superstructure raised by Astronomers above that of the Fixed Stars therefore said to be Invisible above all Stars inclosing and snatching away all the Stars and their Sphears with incredible Rapidity round from East to West in the space of a Natural Day thence termed The Wheel of Day and Night while the Earth that better may with far less compass move easeth the whole Frame of Nature by her narrower compass performing that alone with more facility than all the rest twisted and contorted with different and disagreeing Motions can do according to the uncontested Axiom Frustra fit per plura quod fieri possit per pauciora Râ—mb of Rhombus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Wheel or turning round Rotatio of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to run round from hence the Rhumbs or the Mariner's Compass on which the 32 Winds are circled took its Name So that the swift Nocturnal and Diurnal Rhomb is the rapid Round by which Day and Night are brought incessantâ—y about the Supreme Whirligigg above the Firmament supposed V. 137. If Earth industrious c. If the moving Earth by her own Industry and Labour earn the Day by turning one side towards the Sun enlighten'd by his Rays while the other half averse and turn'd from him is covered with Night and Darkness Industrious Industrius Lat. active laborious Luminous Luminosus Lat. enlighten'd V. 140 What if that Light c. What if the Light darted and reflected from this Earth through the open transparent Air to the Moon that seems another Earth be like a Star shining on her by day as she shines on this Earth by Night By turns assisting and enlightning one another if Lands there be in the pale Moon 's clear Globe Fields and their Owners AEquà grat aque permutatione rependit Tellus parem illuminationem ipsi Lunae qualem ipsa à Lunà in profundioribus noctis tenebris tâ—to ferè tempore recipit Gal. c. 1. Non modo Terram Lunam commutare vices dum sese vicissim obscurant illuminant sed etiam quicquid Venus aut Mercurius apparent Terrae apparere Terram Marti Jovi Saturno c. Gass. l. 3. c. 8. Transpicuous Transpicuus Lat. transparent that may be seen through of Transpicere Lat. to look through Terrestrial Terrestris Lat. of or like the Earth Reciprocal Reciprocus Lat. mutual by turns V. 145. Her Spots thou sâ—est Those great Spots which Antiquity discover'd in the Moon perswaded Pythagoras to think her a Globe not unlike the Earth Lunam scilicet esse quasi tellurem alteram ejus pars Lucidior terrenam superficiem obscurior vero aqueam magis congruè representet And Galileus by the aid of his admirable Glass discovered so many new ones and her Surface to be so like that we live on that he had good reason to affirm Lunae superficâ—em inaequalem asperam cavitatibus tumoribusque confertam non secus ac ipsiusmet telluris facies quae â—ontium jug is valliumque profunditatibus binc inde distinguitur Nun. Sid. c. 1. The Egyptian styled the Moon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Stoiâ—s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 149. Other Suns with their attendant Moons Every Fixed Star in the Opinion of the best Astronomers and according to the best Hypothesis is a Sun-like Body danced round by divers Attendant Stars called Lunulae Little Moons of which Galilaeo's Glass gave the first Discoveries in two that move about Saturn and four about Jupiter two of the Planets Esse ingentem aliquem globum qui
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.
abroad V. 775. And confer their State-Affairs Consider and advise of things concerning their Government according to the Opinion of Virgil and others that Bees have one and that Monarchical Solae Communes Natos consortia tecta Urbis habent magnisque agitant sub legibus aevum Et Patriam solae certos novere Nepotes Georg. 4. Regem non sic AEgyptus ingens Lydia nec populi Parthorum aut Medus Hydaspes Observant Rege incolumi mens omnibus una est Amisso rupere fidem Ibid. Confer of Confero Lat. to consult to consider of in common Ibid. The Airy Crowd The Light Spiritual Throng of Angels of AErius Lat. of Air. V. 776. Swarm'd and were straitn'd Increased and were confined in narrow room Strait of Estroit Fr. of strictus Lat. contracted crowded together V. 778. In bigness to surpass c. They who so lately seem'd in size t' exceed the Giant Off-spring of the Angry Earth sent to attempt on Heaven Surpass Fr. Surpasser to go beyond to out-do Brood of the Belg. Broeden to hatch Giant One of extraordinary bigness both for Bulk and Stature Lat. Gigas Geant Fr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Earth-born So Virg. Partu terra nefando Coeumque Japetumque creat saevumque Typhoëa Et Conjuratâ—s Coelum rescindere Fratres Georg. Lib. 1. And Hic genus antiquum Terrae Titania Pubes Fulmine dejecti AEn 6. These Giants were by the Poets made the Sons of Titan and the Earth who made War on Jove to revenge the Injury done their Father Elder Brother to Saturn by depriving him and consequently them his Descendants of his Kingdom V. 780. Like that Pigmean Race The Pigmies are said to inhabit about the East of India near the rising of the Ganges where the Cranes lay their Eggs They had their Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fist as being about a Hand high Juven measures'em by the Foot Ubi tota cohors pede non est altior uno Sat. 13. Ad subitas Thracum volucres nubemque sonoram Pigmaeus parvis currit Bellator in armis Mox impar hosti raptusque per aëra curvis Unguibus à saevâ fertur grue Pygmaeos quoque haud longè ab his nasci quorum qui longissimi sint non longiores esse quam pedes duâ—â— quadrantem Aul. Gell. Lib. 11. Cap. 4. the tallest not exceed 2¼ Feet in height Race The Breed Off-spring from Radix Lat. a Root V. 781. Beyond the Indian Mount The Mountain Imaus the Northern Boundary of India Ibid. Or Faery Elves Or Dancing Sprights agreeable to the Old Wives Fables Fairies seem derivable from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ionic word for Fauns Satyrs and such like Wild Creatures as are Fabled to frequent the Woods Elf A Goblin a Nimble Spright from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to change according to the Erroneous Opinion that these Fairy Elves do sometimes exchange their Brats for others more Beautiful V. 782. Whose Midnight Revels Whom sporting and dancing at Midnight near some Wood or Waters-side a Swain going late home sees or imagines that he sees To Revel is properly to Dance or make Merry late or all Night from the Fr. Resveiller to Watch to be up late V. 783. Belated Peasant Some Country Swain out late at Night Paisant Fr. a Country-Man a Clown V. 784. Or dreams he sees So Virg. Aut videt aut vidisse putat per nubila Lunam AEn 6. V. 785. Sits Arbitress Governess of the Night looking on like a Judge and Beholder of their Pastimes Lucian in his Book De Deâ Syriâ calls the Moon Noctis Arbitram Arbiter is properly an Umpire a Private Judge chosen by Common Consent to determine between Parties but most properly it signifies a Looker on and is so used by Horace Non locus effusi late maris arbiter a Place that has a free and open Prospect to the Sea-ward Epist. Lib. Cap. 11. Ibid. And nearer to the Earth Beginning to decline and go down nearer to her setting or nearer to the Earth in regard of the Sun and Stars that fetch wider compass round it V. 786. Wheeles her pale course Makes her wan way drives her pale Chariot nearer to the Earth Pallidus Lat. faint whitish course Cursus Lat. Race Journey Way V. 787. Intent with Jocund Musick charm c. They wholly busie in their Sports and Dance with pleasing Tunes delight his charmed Ear. Intent earnest set upon a thing of intensus Lat. Jocund of Jucundus Lat. sweet pleasant To charm is to gain upon and as it were bewitch or inchant ones Ears so as to deprive him of the power to depart of Carmen Lat. for a Charm Carmina vel Coelo possunt deducere Lunam Virg. Ecl. 8. Musick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of Harmony whether Instrumental or Vocal A Musis Inventoribus V. 788. At once with Joy and Fear c. At the same time both pleased and scared delighted and affrighted his Heart within him leaps he feels at once the unequal Motions and Impressions that Fear and Joy make in his beating Breast Rebound of Rebondir Fr. to leap back again a Metaphorical Expression from the rebounding of a Ball. V. 789. Thus Incorporeal Spirits Thus Angels or Spirits not cloathed and clogg'd with gross Earthly Bodies for Incorporeal is Declarative of their Nature Incorporeus Lat. without a Body V. 790. Reduc'd their Shapes immense Lessen'd and contracted their vast Shapes to smallest size Reducere Lat. to restrain Immensus Lat. vast huge Ibid. And were at large And were at ease not crowded because contracted into less room so to go at large is to be at liberty to be free otherwise to be at large when they had lessen'd themselves would be a plain Contradiction V. 792. Of that Infernal Court Of Hell Lucifer's new Court Infernalis Lat. belonging to the nethermost deepest Hell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V. 793. In their own Dimensions Not lessen'd in Shape or Size but in their own Majestick make Dimensio Lat. Measure Proportion V. 794. Seraphick Is the singular of Seraphim and Cherubim the plural of Cherub the Rusing Lords of both which before V. 795. In close recess In strictest privacy Recessus Lat. Retirement a place to be in private Ibid. And secret Conclave Is a private place into which no Person can come without a Key a place appointed and set apart for secret Counsels of Con and Claudo to be shut up together Hence the place where the Election of the Pope is made at Rome is called the Conclave V. 796. A thousand Demi-Gods A great Assembly of consulting Seraphims called Demi-Gods as being Spirits approaching nearest to Divinity though infinitely short of it Demi of Dimidium Lat. half the word answers to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Heathen Illustrious Persons Aiders of Mankind and Maintainers of Virtue Heroes who deliver'd their Country from Oppression and Tyranny therefore reputed the Off-spring of the Gods and at
commonly used in our Language for Instruction Military of Militaris belonging to Miles Lat. a Soldier V. 959. Fawn'd Flattered of the Sax. fandian to impose upon to cheat V. 962. What I arreed thee Mark what I appoint thee what I enjoyn thee Arreed of the Fr. arrester to determine to decree Ibid. Avaunt Fr. be gone of Avant Fr. before forward on V. 964. Within these hallow'd Limits Within the blessed Bounds of Paradise Limes Lat. a Border or Boundary V. 965. I drag thee The present Tense used for the future to signifie the immediate execution of the menace To drag to hale and pull of the Teut. tragen of trahere Lat. to pull V. 966. And seal thee so This seems to allude to the chaining of the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devil and Satan mentioned in the Revelations And he cast him into the bottomless Pit and shut him up and set a Seal upon him Chap. 20. ver 3. Seal of Sigel Sax. Sigillum Lat. V. 967. The facil Gates The Gates of Hell so easie to be opened Facilis Lat. easie V. 971. Proud limitary Cherub Thou proud prescribing Angel that presumest to limit me and appoint my Prison Limitary of limitaris Lat. bounding of limitare Lat. to confine of limes Limes agro positus litem ut discerneret arvis AEn 12. V. 974. Ride on thy Wings According to Ezekiel's Vision Then did the Cherubims life up their Wings and the Wheels besides them and the Glory of the God of Israel was over them above Chap. 11. ver 22. V. 975. His triumphant Wheels His glorious Chariot where he rides in State in Triumph Of triumphare Lat. These Wheels have relation to the fore-cited Vision And when I looked behold four Wheels by the Cherubims and when the Cherubims went the Wheels went by them and when the Cherubims lift up their Wings to mount up from the Earth the same Wheels also turned not from beside them c. Ezek. 10. ver 9 16 17. V. 976. In progress through c. When he takes his Journey through Heavens high Road pav'd with Stars Progress A Royal March the stately and leisurely Journey of a Court of Progredi Lat. to move forward by degrees V. 978. Sharpning in Mooned Horns c. Extending their square Body into a round one and so sharpning it into Horns like those of the increasing Moon endeavouring to inclose him Phalanx Bo. 1. V. 550. V. 980. With ported Spears With their Spears born pointed towards him Ported of porter Fr to carry to bear a military term to port the Pike V. 981. A Field of Ceres c. A Field of Corn. Ceres the Daughter of Saturn and Ops was the first Discoverer and thence the tutelar Goddess of Corn whence used familiarly for it and Bread made of it Tum Cererem corruptam undis AEn 1. V. 982. Her bearded Grove of Ears Her armed Wood of yellow Ears That this Comparison is sufficiently significative of a vast number of armed Men ranged close together is evident from its familiar use and occurrence amongst the best Poets Homer by it expresseth the power Agamemnon's Oration to the Grecian Army had on the affected Multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virgil brings it nearer calling a great number of Darts Telorum segetem ferream Hic confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges jaculis increvit acutis AEn 3. Atraque late Horrescit strictis seges ensibus AEn 7. Thick as a Field c. Circum hos utrinque Phalanges Stant densae strictisque seges mucronibus horret Ferrea AEn 12. Vel quam sole novo densae torrentur aristae AEn 7. Seges undique ferri circumfusa nitet Clau. in Ruf. lib. 2. Bearded Sharp-pointed of the Fr. Barde as Javelin de Barde a barbeâ—… used by Horsemen V. 986. Dilated stood like Teneriff or Atlas Out-stretch'd and extended high he 〈◊〉 as tall as Teneriff and as unshaken as the immense Mount Atlas to the Sky up reach'd his haughâ—y stature on his Helm horror supply'd a Plume Teneriff Teneriffa or as the Natives name it Thenerife is one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantick Ocean anciently called Nivaria because its Peak supposed the highest in the World is seldom without Snow The Basis of this Mountain is about 48 Spanish Leagues in compass and its Summit about 15 miles high to be seen about 120 English Miles at Sea Atlas now Aiducal the greatest Mountain in all Africa hiding its head in continual Clouds It begins in Mauritania near the Atlantick Ocean which bears its Name by Cape de Guer by various windings and turnings stretching it self Eastward to the Deserts of Barca It s prodigious height occasioned the Fable of Atlas bearing Heaven on his back That Lucifer the Chief Leader and Champion of the laps'd Angelick Host should swoln with rage be compared to Mountains of such vast Immensity will seem modest enough when parallell'd with the liking of AEneas by Virgil to some others not so much inferior to these as his Heroe must be allowed to have been below any one of those Spiritual Beings Quantus Athos aut quantus Eryx aut ipse coruscis Cum fremit ilicibus quantus gaudetque nivali Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras AEn 12. Dilated Stretch'd out extended Dilatus Lat. of dilatare to spread out Collecting gathering together summing up all his strength of colligere Lat. Stature statura Lat. height V. 989. And on his Crest sat horror plum'd And on his Helm sat horror hatch'd Dreadfully graven and delineated The Helmets of ancient Heroes were made terrible by Horses Tails stuck in their Crests and by representations of divers angry Animals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et Conum insignem galeae cristasque comantes AEn 3. Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem AEn 8. tremunt in vertice cristae Sanguineae AEn 9. Crest of Crista Lat. a Comb or tuft of Feathers on a Bird's head thence a Plume of Feathers or any other Ornament on a Helmet Horror plum'd Horror full-fledg'd ready to fly upon the Enemy Fury in perfection Plum'd of Pluma Lat. Feathers in imitation of which any thing carved graven or embroidered was called Opus plumatile a kind of damasking Shields and Helms Virgil has something like it Quem pellis ahenis In Plumam squamis auro conferta tegebat AEn 11. Sat Horror plum'd has something in it quod nequeo monstrare sentio tantum V. 995. With violence of this Conflict In the fury of this Engagement Conflictus Lat. a Fray a Fight of confligere to encounter V. 998. Betwixt Astrea Or Justice accounted the Daughter of Jupiter and Themis who during the Golden Age with other Gods frequented the Earth and was the last that left it when defiled by all Abominations and has her place among the Signs of the Zodiac Virgo caede madentes
Last in the Train of Night Diffugiunt Stellae Quarum agmina cogit Lucifer Coeli statione novissimus exit Met. Lib. 2. V. 168. Sure Pledge of Day c. Sure Earnest of the coming Day that dost adorn with thy bright Coronet the lovely Morn the Circlet a diminitive of Circle Qualis ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer undâ Quem Venus ante alios Astrorum diligit ignes Extulit Os sacrum Coelo tenebrasque resolvit AEn 8. V. 170. That sweet Hour of Prime The early Morning Hour when Air and Earth are both sweet and fresh Dum mane novum dum gramina canent Et ros in tenerâ pecori gratissimus herbâ Georg. 3. V. 171. Of this great World both Eye and Soul Thou Sun the Worlds vast Universal Eye Natures Illustrious Polypheme styled The God of this new World Book 4. Vers. 33. early esteem'd one and worshipp'd in stead of his Creator The Ancients thought the Sun not only the General Surveyor of the World but the Observer of all that was transacted in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I invoke the All-seeing Circle of the Sun AEscul in Prometh and in all Leagues Confederacies and other publick Transactions he was called to Witness as the Universal Eye from which nothing could be conceal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esto nunc Sol testis AEn 12. Sol oculis juvenem quibus aspicit omnia vidit O Lux immensi Publica Mundi Met. Lib. 2. Ibid. And Soul The most Ancient Philosophers were of Opinion that there was one Universal Intellectual Soul the Emanation of the Great Mind God created and diffused over the whole World by whose general Virtue and Plastick Power all things are generated and preserved and the whole Frame of Nature continued in her uninterrupted Course and beautiful Order this the Platonists called Animam Mundi and with them Mercurius Trismegistus Theophrastus c. the Stoicks and the Peripateticks agree Zâ—roaster styles it a Catholick Invisible Fire Virgil A Mental Spirit actuating the Heavens Earth Seas and Stars Principio Coelum ac Terras camposque liquentes Lucentemque Globum Lunae titaniaque Astra Spiritus intus alit Totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem c. Igneus est olhis vigor coelestis Origo Seminibus AEn 6. So that our Poet has conformably seated this Universal Invigorating Spirit in the Sun by the Platonists termed the Sphere of Equality or of the Soul of the World corresponding with the Heart the Vital Center of the Microcosm V. 173. In thy Eternal Course in thy Continual Course For the Sun is not Eternal not so Ancient as Light by some Days but was made in time of which his Motion is the Measure Virgil uses the Adverb AEternùm in the same manner for Continually Glebaque versis AEternum frangenda bidentibus Georg. 2. AEternumque Arida Barce Luc. V. 176. Fixt in their Orb that flies The fixt Stars are not so call'd as if Stationary and Motionless but because moving constantly in the round of their own Sphere without any deviation and thereby distinguish'd from the wandring Planets therefore styled in the following Verse The Five wandring Fires being Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury he having just been speaking of the Sun and Moon that compleat the Septenary V. 178. In Mystick Dance not without Song Pythagoras is vouch'd for the Author of the Musical Motion of the Spheres though misunderstood the Harmony he meant relating to their Proportion and Concinnity rather than their Consonancy Many have endeavoured to find an Agreement with our Earthly Harmony in the Distances and Motions of the Heavenly Spheres Sound being only the Noise of Motion diversly modified And doubtless there are many Proportions among the Stars nearly approaching the Harmonick their benign and favourable Aspects and Conjunctions as also the evil ones do strangely correspond with Concord and Dissonancy But all that we certainly understand is that we cannot sufficiently comprehend and admire the admirable Proportion and Congruity the Regular and uninterrupted Methods and Motions of Nature charming above all the strains of Humane Harmony and obeying his Commands who from the beginning ordered all things in measure number and weight Wisd. 11. Vers. 20. Orpheus his Harp had its seven Strings contrived according to the Number of the Planets which the Poets tell us was the reason his Musick was so Compulsive and Irresistible and he compared the Four Elements and their Harmonious Mixture by which the World is maintain'd in continual Concord to the Tetracordon resembling the vast Universe to the Monocord V. 180. Air and the Elements c. Air and ye the rest of the Elements Fire Earth and Water the Constituents of all Corporeal Beings the eldest Birth of Natures Womb according to Gen. 1. Vers. 1. V. 181. That in Quaternión run c. That in their four-fold Mixture run perpetual Rounds producing divers Forms The Generation of all things is Circular as of Seed an Egg of that a Bird of that Bird Seed again and of that an Egg in a continual round The Quaternion or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the mysterious and much-admired Number of the Pythagoreans It was their most sacred and solemn Oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyth. in Carm. Aur. â— sware by him who gave my Soul the Quaternion the Fountain of Everlasting Nature It related as some say to the Four Elements the Four Faces of the Moon to the Four first Qualities Heat Cold Dryness and Moisture But the Pythagoreans had it in so high Veneration because it contained all Numbers that is ten for beyond which no Nation Numbers the rest being but Multiplications of this wherefore Four contain all Numbers Quaternion Quaternio Lat. the Number Four à Quatuor Lat. Multiform Multiformis Lat. of divers Fashions and Shape of Multus Lat. many and Forma Lat. shape kind V. 189. Th' uncolour'd Skie The Air which by reason of its thinness clearness and perspicuity is invisible can therefore have no pretence to colour as not being capable to terminate our sight That more impure part of it that moves in the Region of Meteors is of a duskish and dark Complexion near the misty Horizon by reason of the thick Vapours of the Neighbouring Earth at a greater distance thinner Exhalations give it a whiteness and in serene Seasons it is of that we call Skie-Colour but all these are the Tinctures given to the Uncolour'd Air as patcht and drest with Clouds as our Author styles them Virgil seems to have exprest this Uncolour'd Air by Purum Dum se laetus ad auras Palmes agit laxis per Purum immissus habenis Geor. 2. Skie of Scinan Sax. to be bright V. 192. That from Four Quarters blow From the Four Cardinal Points East West North and South which multiplyed by Eight their Collateral and Circular Sub-divisions compleat the Compass with 32 distinct Breaths V. 193. And wave your Tops ye Pines and bow your lofty Heads
Mankind is should be a stranger to the Omniscience of GOD Almighty V. 23. Acclamations Shouts of Joy Acclamatio of Acclamare Lat. to shout for Joy V. 26. High applauded Highly commended extreamly extoll'd Applauded applausus Lat. of applauderc to clap Hands in token of liking and approbation Ingeminant plausum Tyrii AEn 1. V. 44. Michael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. the Power of God of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to be mighty Gabriel Book 4. V. 549. V. 45. Military Prowess Warlike Courage Military of Militaris Lat. Soldier-like of Miles Lat. a Soldier Prowess Prouësse Fr. Valour V. 48. By Millions By mighty Multitudes Million Lat. Millio 1000000 of Mille Lat. a Thousand V. 54. Of Tartarus Book 2. V. 858. Hell the bottomless Pit that stands gaping wide to receive 'em into its Flaming Confusion V. 56. The Sovereign Voice God Almighty whose Omnipotent Word made all the World and makes it tremble and melt before him V. 58. In Duskie Wreaths reluctant Flames Now Clouds began To hide his Holy Hill and rowling Smoak Fraught with fierce Fire contending to get free The signal of his rising Wrath. Reluctant Flames Striving to break forth Of Reluctari Lat. to Struggle V. 62. In mighty Quadrate In a vast square Gross Of Quadratus Lat. Square whence Agmen Quadratum V. 66. Heroick Ardor Noble Courage like that of Heroes Book 1. vers 552. Ardor Lat. Courage Diine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt Euryale AEn 9. V. 69. Indissolubly firm So strongly Embattled and Embodied as not to be broken Indissolubilis Lat. not to be dissolv'd Ibid. Obvious Hill No Hill stood in their way or opposed their March Obvious Lat. what meets or stands in ones way V. 73. When the total Kind of Birds When the Generation of Birds when the whole species of Fowls appeared upon the Wing And Adam gave Names to all Cattel and to the Fowl of the Air Gen. 2. vers 20. V. 77. Manyâ—a Province wide Many a large Country Province Provincia Lat. for any Country not formerly part of Italy added by fair or foul means to the Roman Empire Sicilia Princeps se ad fidem amicitiamque populi Romani applicuit prima omnium Provincia appellata est Cice. pro Fla. V. 78. Of this Terrene Ten times the length of this Earth of this Terrene Globe Terrenus Lat. Earthly Of Terra Lat. the Earth Terreno ex aggere bustum AEn 11. V. 79 Far in th' Horizon to the North As far as Angels Eyes could see Northward The Horizon is a Circle dividing the Heavens into two half Circles and thereby determining our Sight By the Greeks styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the Lat. Finiens The Horizons are various according to the variety of Situations Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. To Terminate as they do our view Nec sidera tota Ostendit Lybicae finitor circulus Orae Luc. l. 9. V. 80. A fiery Region The North is call'd from the Clearness and Brightness of the many Stars in that Quarter though the South is better provided with them than Antiquity was aware of But fiery seems here to relate to the Bright Beams that darted from the flaming Arms of Satans innumerable Host marching from the North. AEraque fulgent Sole lacessita lucem sub nubila jactant AEn 7. V. 81. Stretcht in Battailous Aspect The whole North had the Face and Front of one great Battle set in orderly Array extended and stretcht from skirt to skirt from one side to the other Battalions Of Battailer Fr. to Fight to wage War to give Battle V. 82. Bristled with upright Beams The Beams that shot upright into the Air from Sphears and Helms and shining Shields made the flaming Region of the North appear as if quite full of fiery Bristles V. 84. With boastful Argument Portray'd Painted with Vain-Glorious Boastings of what they now design'd Portraid Of the Fr. Pourtraire to Paint Of the Lat. Protrahere as our English to Draw V. 86. They Ween'd They Thought they Foolishly imagined an old Word V. 93. In fierce Hostings meet Joyn in adverse Encounters charging each other in destructive Deeds such as Hosts and Armies shock one another with Of Hostis Lat. for an Enemy V. 105. A dreadful interval A dismal space Intervallum Lat. a space between properly that between the Stakes in a Roman Trench which being but small an Interval is put for any small space of Place or Time and thence a Rest in Musick which made Virgil add to it longâ— to express a great distance Longo sed Proximus intervallo AEn 5. V. 107. Before the Cloudy Van Before the black main gross Van Book 2. vers 537. V. 108. On the rough Edge of Battel On the bold brink of Battel Edge is a word not to be exprest by any other in our Language and in the Sense here meant it has a strange Relation to the Lat. Acies that signified both the sharp Edge of any Weapon and also an Army in Battel Array ready for the Charge in which it is expressive of this rough edge of Battel Haud aliter Trojanae Acies Aciesque Latinae Concurrunt AEn 10. V. 113. His own undaunted Heart explores Trys and Sounds his own Courage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Explores Of Explorare Lat. to Search Try and Consider well Non lupus insidias Explorat Ovilia circum Geo. 4. V. 115. Realty Truth Integrity Realitas Lat. V. 118. Or weakest prove where boldest Why should not Strength and Might there be wanting where Virtue wanting is Or weakest prove and most inferior where Impudently and Impiously rely'd on Where Boldest where most Audacious and Brutal V. 129. At this prevention more incens'd More enraged by Abdiel's being before-hand with him and preventing his bold Defiance by his Challenge Praeventio Lat. a getting the Stars of Praevenire Lat. to get before to gain ground of V. 134. His side Abandon'd His party Deserted and Forsaken Of Abandonner Fr. to leave to quit V. 138. Incessant Armies to defeat thy Folly The Almighty who Created all Things out of nothing could easily raise Armies Everlasting new and never ceasing Forces to disappoint and humble thy Ambition Defeat Defaire Fr. to destroy to unmake V. 139. With Solâ—â—ary Hand With his own single Arm without Second or Assistance Solitarius Lat. alone of Solus the same V. 146. Erroneous to Dissent When I alone among thy multitudes mistaken seem'd to disagree with all th' Etherial Host. Erroneous out of the way deceiv'd Of Errare Lat. to be deceived V. 147. My Sect thou seest Those that are of my Party and Opinion Secta Lat. for a Side Faction Family of Philosophers c. Philosophorum Sectae Familiae Disciplinae Cice. V. 149. Askance Book 4. Vers. 504. V. 152. Seditious Angel Thou that lovest Factious Broils Mutinous and Troublesome Seditiosus Lat. a maker of Mutinies Seditione potens AEn 11. V. 159. Omnipotence to none Who while they feel Divine Power and Strength within themselves
horrida coelo Tempestas telorum adamantaeaeque procellae Fulmineique globi ferratâ grandine nimbus Volvitur alatis animosa per agmina turmis Spirituum quas nulla valet vis sistere contra Montibus immotis quamvis vel Rupibus AEqua NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK VII Vers. 1. DEscend from Heav'n Urania Come down from Heav'n Urania if that Name well pleas'd thou hear'st Come down from Heav'n O Divine Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heavenly So horace Descende caelo dic age tibia Regina longum Calliope mclos Car. 1. 3. Od. 4. So Pindar styles his Muse Daughter of Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Urania was the name of one of the nine Muses of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Heaven Whence even the Heathen Poets acknowledged all their help Therefore ours invokes and calls upon the meaning not the Muse the empty Name V. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calli. Excipit Urania fecere silentia cunctae Ov. Fast. 1. 5. V. 4 Of Pegasean Wing O heavenly Spirit following thy divine Voice and Dictates I have raised my self above the lofty Hill Olympus the Abode and Heaven of the Heathen Gods above the reach of the Poetic Pegasus's Wings I call on thee for thy assistance not on that Name faintly resembling and expressing thee Pegasus was the Poets Winged Horse sprung out of the Blood of Medusa when her Head was cut off by Perseus Pennisque fugacem Pegason fatrem matris de sanguine natos Ovid. Met. 4. This Kephel was famous for opening the Muses beloved Fountain Hippocrene with a stroak of his Heels whence he was named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Fountain after many Exploits he flew up to Heaven where he is noted among the Stars in Jovis Praesepe Hence Perseus's Pegaseium melos Prolo Sat. 1. Dicite quae fontes Aganippidos Hippocrenes Grata Medufaei signa tenetis Equi Ov. Fast. 5. Olympian Book II. V. 531. Olympus Book I. V. 516. Of this famous Mountain the Muses were named Olympiades esteem'd the Daughter of Olympian Jove and Memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesid in Theog V. 9. Thou with eternal Wisdom c. His spirit garnish'd the heavens Job 26. 13. The Lord possest me Wisdom in the beginning of his way before his works of old when there were no depths I was brought forth when there were no Fountains abounding with water before the Mountains were setled before the Hills was I brought forth Prov. 8. 22 24 25. V. 12. Pleas'd with thy Celestial Song Then I was with him as one brought up with him And I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him Prov. 8. 30. V. 15. Empyreal Air thy tempting By thee led up into the bighest Heavens I have presumed to soar an Earthly Guest and breath'd that pure Celestial Air temper'd by thee He alludes to the Air that on some very high Mountains is so extreamly thin and suttle that Humane Lungs are incapable of drawing it His Presumption is meant of the daring flights of his Fancy singing and describing this Angelic War c. in Heaven V. 16. To my native Element To this lower Region of the Air in which I had my Birth V. 17. From this flying Steed Lest by my flying and unruly Fancy thrown and dismounted as heretofore Bellerophon thô from less lofty height I fall distracted to wander all alone lost and undone He compares his swift and towring Fancy to a flying ungovernable Horse extreamly well considering with how much celerity Fancy finds her way through Heaven and Earth and Hell it self through all the Parts and Paths of Nature and how dangerous it is to lay the Reins loose on her Neck or not to have strength of Judgment enough to guide and curb her V. 18. Bellerophâ—n was a noble and chast Youth Son of Glaucus who refusing the amorous Applications of Antea as Homer Sthenobaea as others say the Queen of Praetus was by her false suggestions like those of Joseph's Mistress to her Husband sent into Lycia with Letters desiring his destruction where mounted upon Pegasus he kill'd the Chimaera and perform'd divers other notable Exploits but attempting vain-gloriously to mount up to Heaven on his Winged Steed Jupiter made his unruly unrein'd Horse so ungovernable that he threw his Rider on the Alean Plain where being struck blind he wandred finding no Relief till he died with Hunger 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quid profuit olim Hippolito grave propositum Quid Bellerophonti Erubuit nempe haec ceu fastidita repulsa Nec Sthenobaea minus quam cressa excanduit se Concussere ambae Juv. Sat. 10. Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte Hor. Carm. l. 3. Od. 12. V. 22. Visible diurnal Sphear Half my work is still unfinish'd Six only of these Twelve Books into which he digested it being compleated but the Remainder lies in narrower bounds within the compass of discerning day firm standing on the Earth not snatch'd above the Stars with daring slight more safe I sing with manly voice not changed by straining it to hoarsness or into dumbness wearied c. Diurnal Diurnus Lat. daily Rapt Lat. Raptus snatch'd up V. 28. Solitude Lat. Solitudo solitariness living alone of Solus Lat. alone V. 32. The barbarous Dissonance c. The harsh rude Noisefulness the disagreeable discord and disturbance of Sots and Songsters Barbarous Bo. I. V. 353. Dissonance Dissonantia Lat. a disagreeing in Tune Untunableness V. 33. Of Bacchus and his Revellers Bacchus was the God of Wine and Deity of Drunkards See Bo. IV. V. 279. Revellers are such as dance and drink all night of the Fr. Resveiller as of Revigilare to watch A word well suiting the Ciconian Maenades that ran madding up and down in their drunken Dances celebrating the Rites of Bacchus who were the Murderers of the Thracian Bard here styled the Wild Rout. V. 34. The Thracian Bard Orpheus Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope born in Thrace a noble Poet and Philosopher who after the loss of his much lamented Euridice not affecting second Nuptials as Virgil or as others for his divine Disswasives against Lust and Incontinâ—nce was torn in pieces by the Ciconian mad Women sacrificing to Bâ—cchus on Rhodope a Mountain of Thrace Spreto Ciconum quo munere matres Inter sacra Deûm nocturnique Orgia Bacchi Discerptum latos juvenem sparcere per agros Geo. 4. Non me carminibus vincet nec Thracius Orpheus Virg. Ecl. 4. Ovid to the former subjoyns a more scandalous cause of this Feminine Fury Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor amorem In teneros transferre mares Met. 10. But Horace gives us his true Character Sylvestres homines sacer interpresque deorum Caedibus victu faedo deterruit Orpheus Dictus ob hoc lenire Tigres rabidosque Leones De Arte Poet. Bard the Bardi were the
Poets and Philosophers of the ancient Gauls and Britains Bard is a Welsh word so signifying still Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi Luc. l. 1. V. 36. Till the savage Clamour drown'd Till the wild Uproar overcame both charming Voice and Harp Sauvage Fr. wild Clamour Clamor Lat. a shout a roaring This is well express'd by Ovid Cunctaque tela forent cantu mollita sed ingens Clamor inflato Berecynthia tibia cornu Tympanaque plaususque Bacchêi ululatus Obstrepuere sono citharae tum denique saxa Non exauditi rubuerunt sanguine vatâ—â— Met. l. 2. V. 37. Nor could the Muse c. Nor could the Muse Calliope defend Orpheus her Son Perque os prò Jupiter illud Auditum saxis intellectumque ferarum Sensibus in ventos anima exhalata recessit Ibid. V. 41. The affable Archangel The sociable Spirit as styled Bo. V. Vers. 221. Affabilis Lat. Courteous Nec visu facilis nec dictu affabilis ulli Part of Polyphemus's cruel Character AEn 3. V. 42. Apostasie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a defection a falling away from a quitting Apostates Bo. I. V. 125. V. 46. The interdicted Tree The forbidden Fruit. The Tree of the knowledge of the Good and Evil Gen. 2. 17. Interdicted Bo. V. Vers. 52. V. 50. With his consorted Eve With his espoused Eve Consorted of Consort Book IV. Vers. 447. V. 52. And deep Muse and much Thoughtfulness With strange Astonishment and deep Meditation Muse of the Fr. Muser silently and seriously to meditate on hard matters Donner la Muse à To put one into a brown study V. 57. Redounded Returned back fell back Of Redundare Lat. to return backward as Currents stop'd and opposed do V. 59. Soon repeal'd Quickly recall'd and dismiss'd the Doubts arisen in his Mind Recall'd and cancell'd c. as Orders sometimes are of Rappeller Fr. to recall V. 67. Yet scarce allay'd The desire of Knowledge is well compar'd to Thirst not easily satisfied So Virg. Tale tuum carmen nobis divine Poeta Quale sopor fessis in gramine quale per aestum Dulcis aquae saliente sitim restinguere rivo Ecl. 5. Allay'd Fr. Allegé of the Lat. Alleviare to lessen and diminish Excites stirs up of Excitare Lat. to provoke V. 88. Which yields or fills all space How first began the Air that encloses the fruitful Earth on all sides spread and stretch'd out so vastly wide that it affords or fills every place providing or possessing all space An excellent description of the fluid Air incircling the Terraqueous Globe V. 89. Ambient interfused Denotes the Air not only surrounding the Earth but flowing into and spurn out between all Bodies and is a fuller and finer Notation of its Liquid and Spiritual Texture leaving no Vacuum in Nature than that of Ovid Ncc circumfuso pendebat in aëre tellus Met. l. 1. Interfus'd Interfusus Lat. poured out between of Interfundere Lat. Florid Floridus Lat. floury gay V. 92. So late to build Why God was not pleased to create the World 100000 Years before he did and how he employed his infinite Power Wisdom and other unaccountable Perfections before the Creation are some of those vain and Atheistical Enquiries of impertinent and daring Men who little acquainted with the turns and motions of their own frail and unruly Wills would pry into the Secrets of the Eternal Mind and ask an account of that Almighty Will which created all Things how and when he pleas'd Such Doubts are unresolvable as not coming within the compass of Human comprehension for the Question will at last run up to Eternity it self and the Enquiry will come to this impious and absurd Demand Why God did not make the World co-eternal with himself Ad quem potius pertiâ—eret momentum Creationis indefinitum definire ad te qui dubitas an ad Deum qui fecit Val. V. 94. How soon absolv'd In what time perfected and compleated Absolv'd Absolutus Lat. Opus absolutum a work done and finish'd V. 103. From the unapparent Deep The Sun the great Light of Day has still much of his Race to run thô going down the Hill delay'd and with-held by thy Voice he will stop his Course to hear thee relate his glorious Birth and the Generation of Universal Nature rising out of the vast Womb of Waters dark and deep Unapparent Deep Where nothing was to be seen according to Gen. 1. 2. Darkness was upon the face of the Deep And longer will delay Seems an imitation of Virgil praising the Songs of his two Shepherds Immemor herbarum quos est mirata juvenca Certantes quorum stupefactae carmine lynces Et sua mutatos requierunt flumine cursus Ecl. 7. Which our Poet has outgone by adding Sleep listning to thee will watch Sleep shall forget his drowsie Dulness or we can bid his Absence or we can well want him and no wonder when giving ear and audience to an Angel V. 115. What thou canst attain As far as thy capacity will reach Attain of Attaindre Fr. Attingere Lat. to arrive or reach to Noscenda est mensura tui Juv. Sat. 11. V. 116. And infer thee also happier Which may best serve to encrease the Glory of thy Maker and to improve and evidence thy own happiness Inferr of Inferre Lat. to conclude V. 123. Hath supprest in Night Has concealed and hid as unsearchable Has hid in the dark Of Supprimere Lat. to conceal V. 124. To none communicable c. Discoverable to none neither Angels nor Men as the dreadful Day of Judgment of which our Saviour himself says Of that day and hour knoweth no Man nor the Angels of Heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. 36. Communicable of Communicare Lat. to make common to impart V. 127. Her Temporance over Appetite Knowledge is to the Mind what Food is to the Body and stands no less in need of Moderation to check our desires too eager often after it than our Stomach does to stint its craving and must be suited to our Capacities otherwise like Surfeits that turn what was intended for our Nourishment into Diseases and windy Fumes Knowledge in stead of making us wiser will degenerate into Folly Fantastickness and flatuous Pride Surfeit Bo. V. Vers. 639. V. 128. What the Mind may well contain What exceeds not our Capacities I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under Heaven This sore travel hath God given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith Eccles. 1. 13. Haâ—c occupationem pessimam Philosophandi dedit Deus filiis hominum ut occuparentur in eâ Vall. in Praeem V. 144. Whom their place knows here no more And the Place thereof shall know it no more Psal. 103. 16. V. 149. With Ministeries due With suitable service holy Rites and Attendance Ministerium Lat. Attendance Detriment Detrimentum Lat. loss Damage Dommage Fr. Damnum Lat. hurt V. 162. Inhabit laxe Dwell more at large
of the changes of the Weather Winds Plenty Health and their Contraries Others of those Preternatural Signs and Miracles that appeared in the days of Joshua Hezekiah and at the Passion of our Saviour and that shall be before the Last Day And there shall be signs in the Sun and in the Moon and in the Stars Luke 21. 25. The vain Asserters of Judicial Astrology would have 'em meant of the Signs placed in the Heavens whereon to ground their Presumptuous Predictions The best and genuine is That God appointed them for Signs of the Seasons of Time of Days and Years for the motion of the Stars and chiefly of the Sun and Moon is the measure of Time A Day is the time of the Sun's circuit about the Earth an Hour the 24th part of it a Year his compleat Journey through the Zodiac a Month his motion through one Sign of it while the Moon travels quite through it Now Celestial Motion and that chiefly of the Sun being the most regular unalterable and communicable to all Mankind is the best and most common Calculation of Times and Seasons and of circling Years compleating their radiant Rounds V. 346. Great for their use to Man Because the Moon excepting Mercury is less than any of the fixt or erratic Stars though her Neighbourhood to the Earth deceive our sight therefore she is said to be one of the two Great Lights in regard of her illustrious Office in chearing and illuminating the Night more effectually than all the innumerable Stars are able to do with their vaster but far more distant Lights V. 355. A mighty Sphear Of all the Heavenly Bodies first he made the Sun a vast round Circle void of Light though of the same substance with the Heavens Ad sidera rursus AEtheria AEn 7. V. 357. The Moon Globose The Moon round also Globose as Globous Bo. V. Vers. 649. Ibid. And every Magnitude of Stars And all the Stars in their different Magnitudes and distinctions of Size V. 358. The Heaven thick as a Field is said to be sown with Stars to express their vast number Astra tenent Caeleste solum Met. 1. V. 360. Transplanted from her cloudy Shrine In which as in a cloudy Tabernacle she had sojourned three days as at V. 248. Shrine Bo. I. Vers. 388. V. 361. Made Porous to receive c. Made spungy to suck in the streaming Light and solid to retain her congregated Rays Porous of Pori Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pass through those small and unsensible Passages in Human and other Bodies by which any thing is received into or cast out of them V. 364. As to their Fountain other Stars repairing c. 'T is the received Opinion that the Fixed Stars shine and appear by their own Native Light but the Planets are Opaque Bodies illustrated and made bright by the Sun 's borrowed Light and are the other Stars here said to draw Light in their Golden Urns from that great Fountain The reason why our Author did not affirm it of all the Stars as also why many imagine that even our Opacâ—us Earth shines as gloriously on most of the Planets and their Inhabitants if any such there be as they in their turns do on it and us Urns of Urna Lat. a Pitcher V. 366. Guilds her Horns The Morning Planet is Venus which according to the most exact Observations moves round the Sun sometimes above at other times below him bor owing all her Light of him and like the Moon having the same threefold appearance Encreasing Full and Decreasing therefore said to Guild her Horns as being at some distances from that Great Luminary Corniculata Lat. horned When this Star appears above the Horizon proceeding the Sun it is called Lucifer and when it sinks beneath it after him Hesperus V. 367. By Tincture or Reflexion c. The Stars better their Complexion by Tincture by their Approaches towards the Sun new-colouring their Countenances Tinctura Lat. Colour or Dye Or by Reflexion or by his Light reflected on them heighten and enhance the little which may properly be thought their own at such vast distances to human sight appearing much diminish'd Peculiaris Lat. Particular Diminutio Lat. a lessening V. 373. Jocond to run his Longitude c. Brisk and chearful in his vast Diurnal Race from East to West the length of Heaven's High-way He rejoyceth as a Giant to run his course Psal. 19. 5. Jâ—â—â—nd of Giocondo Ital. the depravation of Jucundus Lat. merry Horizon Bo. VI. V. 79. V. 374. The gray Dawn and the Pleiades c. Day-break or the first approach of the doubtful Light is of a gray Colour whence the Morn is styled Gray-eyed by the Poets The Pleiades are seven Stars in the Neck of the Bull one of the twelve Celestial Signs so named of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Sail because they rise about the Verna Equinox thence called Vergiliae the usual time of venturing to Sea among the unexperienced Ancients They as well as the early Dawn are said to dance before the Sun because they constantly rise before him for one half of the Year commencing it by their auspicious Influence Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades Job 38. 31. Taygete simul os terris ostendit honestum Pletias Geor. 4. V. 379. In that Aspect The regard the Stars and Heavenly Lights have to one another by reason of their Places and Positions are called their Aspects Aspectus Lat. of Aspicere Lat. to look on Therefore the Moon placed in the West just opposite against the Sun like his Looking-glass is said to need no other Light in that Situation V. 381. Revolv'd on Heaven's great Axle Turn'd to the East on the World 's mighty Poles by the First Mover Revolv'd of Revolvere Lat. to turn round Axle Bo. II. V. 926. V. 382. Dividual Holds And maintains her Empire o'er the Night assisted by thousand lesser Light as to appearance not like the Sun sole Sovereign and Regent of Day the universal Lord of Light by all unrivall'd V. 387. Generate Reptil Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life Gen. 1. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly Reptile Lat. creeping a word denoting the motion of Creatures without Legs Jam maris immensi prolem genus omne natantum Geo. 2. V. 389. And let Fowl fly above the Earth According to the Hebrew and Chaldee Text for the vulgar Latin and our Version of Gen. 1. 20. And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth c. has given occasion to the Controversie That Fowl as well as Fish were originally made of Water contradicting the plain declaration of Moses Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air Gen. 2. 19. yet the greatest Philosophers and Schoolmen too affirm the former Opinion
mole corporis quatuor decim globos terrestres adaequat circa quem quatuor Lunae nostrae huic Lunae non absimiles circumcurrant Kepl. in Praef. Diopt. Coâ—stare potest esse Planetas quosdam primarios ac veluti Principes Mâ—rcurium Venerem quosdam secundarios â—c veluti pedissequos Lunas nimirum tam terrestres quam Joviales quam caeter as quae reliquis globis possunt circumduci Gal. l. 3. c. 2. Zenophanes the Colophonian was long ago of this Opinion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there were innumerable Suns and Moons not unlike those that shine on us V. 150. Communicating Male and Female Light The Sun 's Light being the most pure and powerful is reputed the Masculine as full of its own innate Vigour and that of the Moon being but derivative and borrowed of him weak and imperfect to be of the Feminine Sex which two great Sexes fill the World with Living Creatures nor do these Sexes manifest their Power among the Viventia only but the Virentia too for Trees and Plants afford Instances of the same distinction Male of Masle Fr. Mas Lat. a He-Creature Female of Faemella Lat. a She Creature V. 152. Stor'd in each Orb c. Of the Probability of a Plurality of Worlds hear what another of our Country-men and a Poet excellent in his time said What if within the Moon 's fair shining Sphear What if in ev'ry other Star unseen Of other Worlds he happily should hear He wonder would much more yet they to some appear Spenc. F. Q. Bo. 2. c. 1. St. 3. Habitari ait Zenophanes in Lâ—nâ eamque esse terram mult arum urbium atque montium Cicer. Quast Acad. V. 158. Is obvious to Dispute 'T is doubtful and disputable that so vast a Space as that of the Heavens where so many millions of glorious and mighty Bodies are should be quite empty and unpossess'd by any living Creatures as if made only to dart each a ray of Light from so vast a distance down to this Habitable Earth which in her turn sends back her Light to them Is obvious lies fairly in the way of Doubt and Disputation Obvius Lat. easie V. 160. Whether the Sun Predominant c. Whether the shining Sovereign of Heaven Great Regent of the Day Bo. VII V. 371 rise on the Earth and from the East begin his glorious Walk round her Predominant Praedominans Lording it over her of Praedominari Lat. to Rule over Ad cujus numeros dii moveantur orbis Accipiat leges praescriptaqae faedera servet V. 161. Or Earth rise on the Sun c. Or whether the errant Earth rowl round the Sun and from the West proceed in her course unperceived silent and still Advance Book VI. Vers. 233. V. 164. That spinning sleeps on her soft Axle The Earth's easie and imperceptible motion round her small Axis is compared to a Top spinning and turning round with so swist but easie and even motion so unperceivable that it is said to sleep on her soft Axle By the same Simile is her third Motion or rather the modification of her other Motions of Inclination explained by Gasseâ—dus Potest autem eodem modo intelligi fieri quo dum puerorum Turbo super planum convolvitur circellosque varios cuspide describit ipse illius axis tum continet se sibi parallelum seu in situ semper perpendiculari tum continet quoque basin turbinis Horizonti semper parallelum Just. Astro. l. 3. c. 3. Ceu quondam terto volitans sub verbere turbo Quem pueri magno in gyro vacua atria circum Intenti ludo exercent Ille actus habenâ Curvatis fertur spatiis AEn 7. V. 166. Soft with the smooth Air along Is an Answer to an Objection made against the Earth's motion that if she wheel'd about with such extraordinary swiftness as necessarily she must to return to the same Point in 24 hours Mankind would be sensible of the hurry by a continual and mighty Wind which the constant breaking and concussion of the Air would cause therefore the Copernicans tell us that the Air at least the grosser part of it encloseth the Earth's Globe and sticks to it as the Down on a Peach floating along with it and the more pure and yielding part of it gives way so as not to be perceived except near and under the AEquator where the Earth moving most swiftly towards the East the Air seems to resist and occasions that constant and pleasing Gale of Wind the Seamen experience breathing towards the West Ut nautae illum quasi ventum indesinentem aequabilem experiantur Gass. l. 3. c. 9. V. 167. Sollicite not thy Thoughts Disturb not thy self trouble not thy head Of Sollicitare Lat. to vex to disquiet Ea cura quietos Sollicitat AEn 4. V. 172. Heaven is for thee too high God to remove his ways from Human Sense Placed Heav'n from Earth so far that Earthly Sight If it presume might err in Things too high And no Advantage gain V. 119 of this Book According to the Verdict of Salomon Then I beheld all the works of God that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun because thô a man labour to seek it out yea further thô a wise man think to know it yet shall he not be able to find it Eccl. 8. 17. Be lowly wise Noli altum sapere is therefore the most instructive Inference V. 181. Intelligence of Heaven Clear Heavenly Understanding The best description of an Angel which being of a purer make than Mankind must needs have more sublime and illuminated Intellects Intelligentia Lat. Understanding Angel serene gentle and kind of Serenus Lat. calm applicable both to the Countenance and Conditions Quae causa serenos Faedavit vultus AEn 2. V. 193. What before us lies in daily Life Useful in the daily Duties of Life Seeing there be many things that increase Vanity what is Man the better For who knoweth what is good for Man in this Life Which the Latin Version renders more to our purpose Verba sunt plurima multamque in disputando habentia vanitatem Quid necesse est homini majora se quaerere cum ignoret quid conducat sibi in vitâ suâ Eccles. 6. 11 12. Neither make thy self over-wise why should'st thou destroy thy self Neque p'â—s sapias quam necesse est ne obstupescas Eccles. 7. 16. Concerning which St. Paul has cautioned us Colos. 2. 8. V. 194. Is Fume Fumus Lat. Smoke Emptiness and Vanity V. 212. Of Palm-tree pleasantest to Thirst The Palm-tree bears a Fruit called a Date full of sweet Juice a great Restorative to dry and exhausted Bodies by augmenting the Radical Moisture there is one kind of it called Palma AEgyptiaca which from its Virtue against Drought was named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sitim sedans Palm Bo. IV. Vers. 139. V. 216. With Grace Divine imbu'd Thy Words full of Divine Sweetness Imbu'd Imbutus Lat. filled full of
Wâ—en thou art seen least wise Whose greatest Wisdom is to observe thy weakness who sees most clearly her Advantages in thy fits of Folly V. 585. To subdue the Soul To conquer or overcome of Subdere Lat. to subdue V. 587. Attractive c. Whatever in her Conversation thou findest noble and reasonable and thence charming cherish still Attractive Attrabere Lat. to draw to to entice V. 591. In reason and is judicious Noble manly Love is guided by Reasonâ— not giddy and blind as that the Poets feign but rational and judicious adviseable able to choose and distinguish 'T is carnal and low Love of which Ovid said Nec in â—nâ sede morantur Majestâ—â— Amor. The Angelic Reason well advises Adam not to subject himself to his Desires nor to suffer Transported Passion to degrade the Majesty of Man Judicious of Judicium Lat. Judgment The Sealâ— the way up of Sealâ— Lat. a Laddâ—r V. 595. Half Abash'd Almost out of Countenance Abash'd of Esbahir Fr. to affright or Abbaisser Fr. to humble to render dejected shame disordering the Face and as it were casting down the Countenance V. 597. In Procreation Procreatio Lat. the begetting of Children or by Beasts their like of Procreare Lat. to beget V. 598. Of the Genial Bed Thô I have higher thoughts of the Propagation of Mankind and conceive there is something more Mysterious and Awful in it because thereby God's Image first on me imprinted is to be multiplied by my Posterity Genial Bed the Marriage Bed Genialis à Gignendo Lat. V. 601. Those Decencies Those many Graces that so wonderfully set off all her Actions and become her very words Decens Lat. comely becoming V. 605. Harmony to behold An Agreement more Musical and pleasant in a Wedded Couple than any Consort can be to the Ear. Harmony 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an accord and consent of Voices in Singing of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to agree V. 617. Mix Irradiance virtual or immediate Touch. Mix they their pure Emanations like Streams of liquid Light twisting their bright Celestial Rays like the Sun 's subtil Beams darted at distance or by close Conjunction and mutual touch A curious Enquiry long since determined by our Saviour For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage But are as the Angels which are in heaven Mar. 12. 25. 'T is an Opinion of the School-men that one End thô less principal of God's creating Man was to repeople Heaven emptied by the Fall of the wicked Angels of many of its Glorious Inhabitants by Creatures of another Mould the more to enhance the loss of those Rebellious Nimirum diminutio Angelorum ob ruinam malorum spirituum supplemento hominum erat resarcienda Perer. in Gen. c. 2. v. 18. At which our Poet hints Into our Room of Bliss thus high advanc'd Creatures of other Mould Earth born perhaps Not Spirits c. Bo. IV. Vers. 359. And further But lest his Heart exalt him in the harm Already done to have dispeopl'd Heav'n My Damage fondly deem'd I can repair That Detriment c. Bo. VII Vers. 150. Mirari licet cur Deus cum posset ruinas Angelorum novis à se creatis Angelis reaedificare c. Cur inquam homines alterius naturae conditionis fecerit quos reponeret pro Angelis Rupert From all which 't is obvious to infer that the Angels are reputed to be of one Sex otherwise they might have repaired their decrease by Propagation as our Author remarks in Adam's Complaint O why did GOD Creator wise that Peopl'd highest Heav'n With Spirits Masculine Not fill the World With Men as Angels without Feminine Bo. X. Vers. 888. Irradiance Irradiatio Lat. a darting or shining forth A word well chosen to express our little knowledge of Angelic Beings Virtual Virtualis Lat. powerful as things are said to be that act and are efficacious at a distance as the Sun is said to be Virtually in the Earth by the activity and force of his Light and Heat V. 624. In Eminence and Obstacle c. We enjoy to the heighth without any hindrance In Eminence Eminenter Lat. in the highest degree Bo. II. V. 6. Obstacle Obstaculum Lat. hindrance lett of Obstando Lat. to stand in the way of Membrane a thin Skin Membrana Lat. Parchment Exclusive Bars Bars that hinder and shut out the longing carnal Lover of Excludere Lat. to shut out V. 627. Total they mix Entirely they embrace and mix with one another without any opposition not as Flesh with Flesh and Soul with Soul Mediantibus corporibus but fully and freely as Air doth with Air. V. 632. Hesperean Sets But I can now discourse no longer the Setting Sun beyond Cape Verd and the Islands ever Green draws near the Western Ocean the time of my departure as before For these mid-hours till Evening rise I have at will Bo. V. Vers. 376. The Earths green Cape Cape de Verde Caput Viride the most Western Point of Affrica called anciently Hesperium Cornu Cape Capo Cabo Cap all of the Lat Caput the Head A Cape is the utmost End of a high Headland or Promontory which shoots it self far into the Sea Verdant Green Bo. VII Vers. 310. Hesperean Sets is setting in the West Hesperean of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Occidentalis the Western part of Heaven or Earth Hesperus the Evening Star rising there V. 637. Thine and of all thy Sons the Weal or Woe in thee is plac'd Weal of the Sax Well The Welfare the Happiness or Misery of thy Posterity depends on thee Prolis spes una futurae Exemplo est firmanda tuo sunt fata tuorum Te penes in te omnis domus instaurata recumbit AEn 12. V. 641. In thine own Arbitriment c. 'T is free and left to thy choice to stand upright of fall offending Arbitriment Arbitrium Lat. judgment choice Repell reject disdain of Repellere Lat. to resist V. 645. Benediction Benedictio Lat. Blessing Ibid. Since to part Since you must go Part of Partir Fr. to depart V. 649. Thy Condescention Thy Humility to discourse with me and answer my Enquiries has been free and familiar and shall be kept for ever in thankful Remembrance Condescention Condescentio Lat. a yielding to of Condescendere Lat. to stoop to as the Angel is here supposed to Man's inferior Understanding NOTES On MILTON's PARADISE Lost. BOOK IX Verse 5. VEnial Discourse unblam'd No more I shall relate where GOD or Angel his Messenger Guest-like was pleased to visit Man familiar as a Friend and with him share a homely Meal allowing him mean-while freedom of Speech without Reproof Venial Discourse Pardonable such as thô faulty yet might be pass'd by Venialis Lat. Pardonable of Venia Lat. Pardon V. 6. Those Notes to Tragic I now must change those softer Notes in which I sung the Angels good and gracious Admonitions to Enquiring Adam to others more dire and dismal such as suit the Tragedies
Scalc Ger. a Servant Familiae Praefectus V. 39. The Skill of Artifice c. Profession of mean Trade and poor low Employment Artificium Lat. a Trade Officium Lat. any Employment V. 42. Nor Studious To me unskilful in these low mean Arts and willing to be so A nobler Subject is left untouch'd able of it self to raise that Name Heroic higher unless the World's old Age or my own or my Northern Countries chill Climate damp my Wings and hinder me from rising to the heighth of so sublime a Subject and much all these may do if what I write were only mine not dictated by my Celestial Patroness my Heavenly Urania who every night whispers it in my Ear. Studious Studiosus Lat. desirous to learn Climate see Clime Bo. I. Vers. 242. Damp moisten of Dampf Ger. a Mist a Vapour Deprest Depressus Lat. born down V. 50. Short Arbiter 'twixt Day and Night Venus one of the Seven Planets always waiting on the Sun in the Morning called Lucifer Posphorus and Eous when seen at Evening Vesper Hesperus and Vesperugo well styled The quick nimble Umpire between Day and Night by turns fore-running both and uncertain to which most enclining Fairest of Stars last in the Train of Night If better thou belong not to the Dawn Bo. V. Vers. 166. Short Arbiter Because when he follows the Setting Sun he soon declares for the Night as when he precedes him he is on the side of Day Arbiter Bo. II. Vers. 910. Twilight Bo. I. V. 597. V. 52. Nights Hemisphere c. An exact description of Midnight when Night had veil'd and darken'd the Horizon quite round half the Sphere Night who commands o'er half the Globe had stretch'd her Empire to its utmost Bounds round half the World from end to end Ends in a Circle seems contradictory but if we conceive the East and West Points of the Earth's Diameter as its ends thô meerly imaginary it will not sound so harsh Hemisphere Bo. III. V. 725. Horizon Bo. VI. V. 79. V. 54. Of Gabriel out of Eden Bo. IV. V. 1014. V. 60. Since Uriel Regent of the Sun c. Bo. IV. V. 561 and 575. Bo. III. V. 622. V. 64. Thrice the Equinoctial Line c. Satan travell'd three times round the Equator in the company of Night The Equinoctial Line or Equator is that Circle which being equally distant from the Poles of the World divides it into two Hemispheres named AEquinoctialis Lat. of equal Night because the Sun cutting this Circle twice in a Year in the beginning of Aries and Libra makes the Days and Nights of even length V. 65. Four times cross'd the Ear of Night Four times he cross'd the Night's dark Road not wheeling directly round with her but crossing over sometimes to the Northern and sometimes to the Southern Pole Carr of Currus Lat. a Chariot Pole Bo. I. V. 74. V. 66. Traversing each Colure Crossing each Colure The Coluri are two great Circles cutting themselves at Right-Angles from the Poles of the World and intersecting other moving Circles in such sort that they describe the Four Cardinal Points of the Zodiac One in the beginning of Aries when the Days and Nights are of equal length and the Spring begins another in the entrance of Cancer when the Summer enters and the Days are at full length a third in Libra when Autumn commenceth and the Days and Nights again keep the same size and the fourth in the beginning of Capricorn when Winter begins and the Days are at shortest Whence one is called AEquinoctiorum and the other Solstitiorum Colurus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Lame Maimed because in an Oblique Position of the Sphear they never intirely appear above the Horizon but seem dock'd lame and lop'd off Traversing Traversant Fr. crossing V. 70. Thô Sin not Time first wrought the change That the Face and Prospect of Paradise was not so changed in the time of Moses but that it was well known to him and described by him 850 Years after the Flood is the Opinion of Sir Walter Rawley Probable it is that Man's first Offence which brought into the World a general Alteration whereby all Sublunary Things were put into a Tendency and Motion towards Mortality did affect Paradise from which perhaps Adam never departed far But most certainly the Flood that over-ran the Peopled World gave it a most absolute Defacing yet not so entire an oâ—â— but by the Rivers of Tigris and Euphrates we may well conclude in what Longitude it lay V. 71. Tigris into a Gulf shot under ground Tigris now called Tigil a famous River of Asia one of the most rapid in the World whence so named of Tigris the Armenian word for an Arrow has its Rise from the Gordian Mountains in the Greater Armenia where after some space it diveth into the Earth whence mounting more large it divides Mesopotamia from Assyria and falling in with Euphrates waits on him into the Persian Gulf. Quaque caput rapido tollit cum Tigride magnus Euphrates quos non diversis fontibus edit Persis incertum tellus si misceat amnes Quod potius sit nomen aquis Luc. l. 3. V. 77. Over Pontus Properly called Euxinus now the Black Sea leading to Constantinople called also Mare majore by those who know no bigger it being the biggest thereabouts which gave Pontus so large a signification as to be expressive of the Deluge Omnia Pontus erant deerant quoque littora Ponto Met. 1. V. 78. The Pool Maeotis Palus Maeotis a vast Bay or as some imagine the Source of the Euxine Sea on the Coast of Crim Tartary known by the Names of Mar de Bianco Delle Zabacchee De Tana because the River Tanais feeds it Pool of the Lat. Palus Maeotis of the ancient Inhabitants the Maecotae or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. as Eustat of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. a Nurse as being such to the Euxine Sea Pigra palus Scythici patiens Maeotica plaustri Luc. l. 2. Quaque fretum torrens Maeotidos egerit undas Pontus Luc. l. 3. Quos operit glacies Maeotica ruptaque tandem Solibus effundit torpentis ad Ostia Ponti Juv. Sat. 4. Ibid. Up beyond the River Ob Satan is described roving up towards the North Pole crossing the Carr of Night V. 66. Ob Oby is a vast River in Tartarian Muscovy near the Pole rising out of the Lake Kiâ—aisko and with a mighty Current empties it self at six vast outlets into the frozen Sea between Obdora and Samojeda V. 79. Downwards as far Antartic Southwards as far beneath according to common apprehension for to those that live under the South Pole our Northern Hemisphere seems below as Virgil Hic Vertex nobis semper sublimis at illum Sub pedibus Styx atra videt manesque profundi Geo. 1. Antartic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Southern of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Bear the most conspicuous Star near the North Pole V.
Make Or to make 'em perishable and less lasting to put 'em into the condition of Decay and Mortality and to mature 'em for Destruction make 'em ready and ripe for Ruine Maturare Lat. to ripen Transcendent Bo. 1. v. 86. Havoc Bo. 2. v. 1009. V. 624. Conniving seem to gratifie c. Winking at their Wickedness seem to oblige my proud Enemies Connivere Lat. to take no notice of Gratificari Lat. to oblige Adherents Bo. 6. v. 266. V. 630. To lick up the Draff To drink up the Dregs to lap up the Lees. Draff of Drabbe Sax. Dregs Random Bo. 4. v. 930. V. 633. With suck'd and glutted Offal Almost burst with indrawn Swill and gorging Filth Suck'd of the Lat. Sugere Glutted of Glutire Lat. to swallow in Offal the Refuse of Beasts thrown to Dogs and Swine Taint Bo. 5. v. 704. V. 636. Obstruct the mouth of Hell Dam up the mouth of Hell Obstruct of Obstruere Lat. to stop up V. 645. Who can extenuate thee Who can diminish thee Who can do any thing to impair thy Power Glory or Goodness Extenuare Lat. to lessen to undervalue V. 651. As sorted best c. As best agreed as suited best with the present state of Things Of Sortire Lat. to suit with Precept Preceptum Lat. a Command V. 654. Scarce tolerable Hardly to be endured Tolerabilis Lat. sufferable V. 655. Decrepit Winter Old wither'd Winter called from the North because the Sun is at that Season farthest from it Decrepitus Lat. very old V. 656. Solstitial Summer's Heat Midsummer's roasting Heat Solstitialis of Solstitium Lat. à Sole stante because the Sun is then at his greatest height and utmost journey in the Crab called Circulus Solstitialis proceeding from his most Southern Elevation the Days neither increasing nor decreasing for some time seem to be at a stand Solstitium pecori defendite Jam venit AEstas Torrida Ecl. 7. Ibid. The Blanc Moon The Pale-faced Moon Blanc Fr. white Moon Mona Sax. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. V. 658. Their Planetary Motions The various Wandrings Planetaris Lat. of a Planet from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. wandring Ibid. Aspects Of Aspectus Lat. the Countenance The Aspects of the Stars among Astronomers are those different Positions in which they variously behold one another at divers Distances V. 659. In Sextile Square and Trine and Opposite If a Planet in one part of the Zodiac be distant from another by a sixth part of Twelve that is by two Signs their Aspect is called Sextile Sextilis Lat. a sixth If by a fourth a Square Carré Fr. Quadrare Lat. By a third Trine of Trinus Lat. a third the Aliquot Parts of Twelve by which the Zodiac is divided And if by one half Opposite Oppositus Lat. over-against which last is said to be of Noxious Efficacy of Evil Effect because the Planets so opposed are thought to strive and like Engageing Enemies to fight debilitate and overcome one another deemed of evil Consequence to those born under or subject to the Influence of the distressed Star Noxious Noxius Lat. hurtful Efficacy Efficacia Lat. power strength force V. 661. In Synod unbenign In unkind Conjunctions in hurtful and severe Assemblies Synod of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. an Assembly a Senate a General Meeting of the Stars in consultation for the Good or Ill of miserable Mankind Unbenign Inbenignus Lat. unlucky disastrous V. 662. The Fix'd their Influence malignant c. And instructed the Fix'd Stars how to dispose themselves so as to dart down upon us their unlucky Rays Influence Bo. 2. v. 1034. Malignant Malignans Lat. hateful malicious V. 664. Should prove Tempestuous Which of 'em attending on the Rising or Setting Sun should raise Storms and Tempests Tempestuosus Lat. stormy Ipse Pater statuit quid Menstrua Luna moneret Quo signo caderent Austri Frigida Saturni sese quo stella receptet Quos ignis caeli Cyllenius erret in Orbes Geor. l. 1. V. 665. With bluster to confound Sea Air and Shoar When with blustring Storms to toss Water and Air and Earth into a common Confusion Bluster seems coyn'd of the Noise the high blowing Winds make Confound of Confundere Lat. to mix together to toss and tumble into Confusion So Juvenal Mare caelo confundas Sat. 6. V. 668. His Angels turn ascanse He commanded his Angels to turn the Poles of the Earth above 20 Degrees aside from the Sun 's Orb. The Poles of the Earth are two Imaginary Points directly opposite North and South Ascanse Bo. 4. v. 504. Poles Bo. 1. v. 74. Axle Bo. 2. v. 926. The Heavenly Orbs are divided into 360 equal Parts called Degrees of Gradus Lat. V. 671. Oblique the Centric Globe They with much difficulty moved awry Earth on her Center seated Oblique Obliquus Lat. crooked awry Centric Bo. 8. v. 83. Globe Bo. 2. v. 513. V. 673. Like distant breadth to Taurus c. Others say the Sun was order'd to turn out of the Equinoctial Road driving the same distance in breadth up to Taurus Pleiades and Gemini Northern Signs up to the Tropic of Cancer as he does down again apace by Leo Virgo and Libra the descending Signs as low as Capricorn thereby to introduce the various Seasons over all the World Taurus Lat. the Bull placed among the Stars by Jupiter in memory of the Trick he played Europa in the shape of one Hinc quâ tepenti vere laxatur dies Tyriae per undas vector Europae nitet Sen. Her Fur. Vacca sit an Taurus non est cognoscere prâ—mptum Pars prior apparet posteriora latent Seu tamen est Taurus sive est hoc faemina signum Junone invitâ munus amoris habet Ov. Fast. l. 4. Candidus Auratis aperit cum cornibus annum Taurus Geor. l. 1. Equinoctial Bo. 9. v. 64. V. 674. The seven Atlantick Sisters Are seven bright Stars in the Bull 's Neck Fabled to have been the Daughters of Atlas King of Mauritania and Pleione Daughter of Oceanus whence called also Pleiades Duxerat Oceanus quondam Titanida Tethyn Qui terram liquidis qua patet ambit aquis Hinc sata Pleione cum stellifero Atlante Jungitur ut fama est Pleïadâ—sque parit Ov. Fast. l. 5. Six of 'em had Gods for their Gallants which makes 'em appear so conspicuous but Merope being forced to take up with a Mortal ashamed to shew her self is out of Countenance Septima mortali Merope tibi Sisyphe nupsit Paenitet facti sola pudore latet Fast. l. 4. Ante tibi Eoae Atlandites abscondantur Geo. 1. Ibid. The Spartan Twins The Sign Gemini Castor and Pollux Brothers by Leda their Mother Wife of Tyndarus King of Sparta Jupiter was the Father of Pollux and Tyndarus of Castor whence the first was Heir to his Father's Immortality unpleasant to him without the company of his belov'd Brother and therefore shared between 'em by turns The Fable took its Rise from the nature of the Stars called still Tyndaridae
v. 749. Express Expressus Lat. manifest apparent V. 359. Supernal Grace Grace sent from God above Supernus Lat. high Enured Bo. 2. v. 216. V. 367. For I have drencht her Eyes For I have shed dewie Sleep into her Eyes which the Latin Translator mistaking has render'd For I have made her weep Ast Eva interea quoniam nunc ejus ocellos Vox mea compuler at Lachrymarum fundere rivum Dormiat hic placidam capiens per membra quietem Rather thus Ast Evae interea medicata papavere multo Lumina cujus hebent placidum sine serpere somnum Drencht wet moisten'd Of the Sax. Drencan to water A Drench is a Medicinal Potion Foresight the seeing of things yet to come the seeing them before they are V. 373. However Chastning How ere it please to punish me Chastning Fr. Chastier Lat. Castigare to correct V. 374. Arming to overcome by Suffering Putting on a Resolution to bear with Patience and with my Constancy to overcome all my Afflictions Quiâ—quid erit superanda est omnis fortuna ferendo AEn 5. V. 377. In the Visions of God As in Scripture the preternatural Revelations of Futurity are call'd And the Spirit brought me in the Visions of God to Jerusalem Ezek. 8. 3. In the Visions of God brought he me into the Land of Israel Ibid. 40. 2. V. 379. The Hemisphere of Earth It was the highest Hill of Paradise from whose lofty Head half the Globe of Earth plain to be seen lay spread out wide in open prospect round Hemisphere Bo. 3. v. 725. Ken Bo. 1. v. 59. Prospect Bo. 3. v. 77. V. 383. Our second Adam Jesus Christ. The second Man is the Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. The last Adam was a quickning Spirit Ibid. v. 45. In the Wilderness and the Devil taking him up into a high Mountain shewed unto him all the Kingdoms of the World Luk. 4. 6. V. 386. Or Modern Fame Of old or late Renown Modern Modernus Lat. new latter V. 388. From the Destin'd Walls of Cambalu From the design'd Walls of Cambalu a great City in Cathaie a Province of Tartary seated on the River Polâ—sanga numerous in Inhabitants and rich in Merchandize the ancient Seat of the Tartarian Chams thence of Cham Lord and Balu a City named in the Tartarian Tongue Kambalu as Paulus Venetus affirms City of the Lord thence Seat of Cathajan Can. Cathaie was anciently known by Scythia extrà montem Imaum It s old Inhabitants the Cathei of Strabo giving it this new Name Destin'd Destinatus Lat. appointed as not being then built V. 389. Sarmacand by Oxus Temir's Throne Sarmacand is a City of Zagathaian Tartary famous for having been the Birth and Burial-place of the mighty Tamerlain where he kept his Royal Residence thence called Temir's Throne Temir Iron of his hardy Courage and Temir-Cutlu happy Iron c. Tamerlain was the Son of Ogg and by the Marriage of the Daughter of Ginocham obtain'd the Tartarian Empire which he so vastly enlarged that he alone subdued more Provinces than all the Romans had done in 800 years when most flourishing at one time he inriched this City with 8000 Camels laden with the Spoils of Damascus only Oxus a River in Zagathaie famous for the overthrow of Cyrus by the Scythians and Sabacham of Zagathaian Tartary by Ismael Sophie of Persia It riseth out of Mount Taurus and falls into the Caspian Sea V. 390. To Paquin of Sinaean Kings As far as Paquin the Royal Seat of the Chinese Kings Paquin Paquina Lat. Pequin Pechinum Lat. is a vast and populous City of China Capital of the Province of Pekin to which their Emperor removed from Naquin in the year 1404 to reside nearer the Tartars their perpetual Enemies and now their Conquerors Sinaean Kings Emperors of China called to this day Sinarum Regio Lat. where Ptolomy the old Geographer placed the Sinae of which China V. 391. To Agra and Lahor of Great Mogul Agra Lat. Capital of the Mogul's Empire is an Indian modern City rich and populous situated in Agra a Province of India beyond the River Ganges Lahor Lahorium Lat. a great City of East-India in a Province of the same Name 360 miles from Agra where the Moguls formerly had their Residence Mogul so called says Heylin as descended from the Mogul Tartars there being others called Sumoguls Jecomoguls c. V. 392. Down to the Golden Chersonese Down as far as to the Golden Peninsula now called the Promontory of Malaca from its chief City is the most Southern Headland of the East-Indies between Sumatra and Borneo two of the Oriental Islands it was known anciently by the name of Aurea Chersonesus Lat. Chersonese 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. is a Peninsula a Place almost quite surrounded by the Sea of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Island being almost an Island only tied to the Land by a small Isthmus or Neck of Land This of four others very considerable was named the Golden being very rich by a vast and universal Trade V. 393. The Persian in Ecbatan Ecbatana now Tauris and Tebris by the Inhabitants the ancient Capital of the Kingdom of Persia founded anno 786 once ruined by an Earthquake often sack'd by the Turks and ever since 1603 recover'd and kept by the Persians V. 394. Hispahan Or Hispaham Aspahamum Lat. the Royal City of Persia where the Sophies have resided near 100 years extreamly rich and populous seated in the Province of Hierach part of the ancient Parthia Ibid. Or Rassian Ksar in Mcsco Or the Russian Emperour in Mosco Russia is a vast Country in the North-East part of Europe formerly Sarmatia Europaea Ksar or Czar in the Slavonian Tongue is the Title of their Great Duke now Emperor of Muscovy so called of his Capital City Mosco or Mosqua a Wooden City seated on a River of the same name denominating the whole Nation and Empire V. 395. Or Sultan in Bizance Or the Grand Signior in Constantinople of Tartarian Original Byzantium Lat. now Constantinople is a City of Thrace and Capital of the Turkish Empire so named by Constantine the Great who Rebuilt it and made it the Eastern Seat of the Empire taken by Mahomet the Second The Sultan has his Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. Dominion which no Monarch exerciseth more absolutely Turchestan is a Province of Zagathaian Tartary so styled because inhabited by the Turks before their inrode into Armenia V. 396. The Empire of Negus to Ercoco The Empire of Negus is that of the Abâ—ssines whose Emperor is by the Europeans styled Prester John by the Moors Aticlabassi and by his own Subjects Acegue and Neguz that is Emperour and King His mighty Territory stretcheth from the Red Sea to Niger ending in the Ethiopic Ocean and almost from one Tropic to the other anciently called AEthiopia sub AEgypto c. Ibid. Ercoco Erquico Erquicium and by Heylin and others Erroco a Sea-port Town of Ethiopia in Africa having a
are 1 Cor. 3. 16. 17. Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost that is in you 1 Cor. 6. 19. Now that these living Temples stand founded on their own Faith not that of the Church of Rome as St. Paul Thou standest by Faith Rom. 9. 20. By Faith ye stand 2 Cor. 1. 24. is manifest in that Glorious Catalogue of the Faithful Patriarchs Heb. 11. Manifested by their Works By Works a Man is justified and not by Faith only Faith by Works being made perfect Jam. 2. 24. 22. V. 530. Who against Faith and Conscience can be Infallible Who can pretend to Infallibility over the Belief and Consciences of Christians Their Consciences bearing witness and their Thoughts accusing or else excusing one another for which reason they are charged by the Apostle To hold the Mystery of the Faith in a pure Conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. Independent of Rome's Infallible Chair Infallibilis Lat. unerring undeceivable V. 534. In outward Rites and specious Forms In Ceremonies Rituals gaudy Processions and fair shews Rites Bo. 10. v. 994. Specious Speciosus Lat. beautiful goodly V. 536. Truth bestuck with Slandrous Darts Truth shall be hardly to be found on Earth loaded with Lies and foul Aspersions disgraced with the Reproaches of Heretic and Schismatic Puritane c. Malignant Bo. 10. v 602. Benigne Bo. 8. v. 492. Slandrous Reproachful of Esclandre Fr. Lat. Scandalum disrepute V. 540. The day of Respiration to the just The day of ease and comfort to Gods People in which the Righteous shall take Breath releast both from the Persecutions of Sin and Wicked Men When God shall wipe away all Tears from their Eyes Revel 7. 17. Respiratio Lat. a breathing refreshing comfort V. 547. To dissolve Satan with his perverted world To destroy the Kingdom of Satan When the judgment of this world shall be and the Prince of this world shall be cast out John 12. 31. When the Prince of this world shall be judged John 16. 11. V. 543. From the Conflagrant Mass c. Then from the flaming Globe of all the World on Fire at once Kept in store and reserv'd unto Fire against the day of Judgment and Perdition of Ungodly Men 2 Pet. 3. 7. Shall raise new Heavens and a new Earth in which dwelleth Righteousness v. 7. of which before V. 553. Seer blest measur'd this Tranfient World How soon has thy Prophesie happy Foreseer of all things to come run through this fading world The Prophets were called Seers as Gad David's Seer 2 Sam. 24. 11. from their foresight of Futurity The Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. to see because God revealed to them things afar of in dark Futurity Prediction Praedictio Lat. foretelling Prophesie Transient Transiens Lat. passing away as the world does 1 John 2. 17. V. 555. Till time stand fixt Till time have finisht his Race and stand still Till time always in motion and the measure of it stand fixt and move no more firm and fixt in unalterable Eternity V. 567. By weak subverting worldly strong c. God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the weak things to confound the things which are mighty 1 Cor. 1. 27. Subverting over-turning Subvertere Lat. V. 570. Is fortitude to highest victory That to suffer for Christ and his Truth is the noblest Courage and the most considerable Conquest Such as manifested it self in St. Stephen the Protomartyr Acts 6. 8. Full of Faith and Power V. 571. Death the Gate of Life The entrance by which we are admitted into Everlasting Life Death being swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 54. V. 584. Charity the Soul of all the rest Add to your Faith Virtue and to Virtue Knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance to Temperance Patience and Charity 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. Charity by name to come so to be named when the world encreased found objects for it Charitas Lat. is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. good-will whose excellencies are set forth 1 Cor. 13. Now abideth Faith Hope Charity these three but the greatest of these is Charity v. the last V. 589. From this top of Speculation From this visionary heighth from this high Hill of Prophesie and Prediction from which I have given thee a clear prospect of what most considerable to Mankind shall come to pass to the Worlds end Speculation Speculatio Lat. a watching on a Tower or high place thence a discovery therefore applied to the Prophets in the sacred Page who are call'd Seers and Watchmen Speulatores of Specula Lat. a Watch Tower Son of Man I have made the a Watchman to the House of Israel Ezek. 3. 17. more exactly described chap. 33. 3 4 5 6 7. V. 590. The hour precise exacts our parting hence The appointed hour is come that requires and presses our departure from Paradise Precise Praecisus Lat. cut of ended and determined of Praecidere Lat. to cut of Exacts of Exigere Lat. to require to command strictly V. 595. With gentle Dreams have calm'd For I with pleasing Dreams betokening Happiness have quieted her troubled Breast have tuned her Spirits and inclined her will to meek submission and surrender of her self and this her Paradise Calm'd Calmer Fr. to appease to quiet Compos'd setled of Componere Lat to order to settle Vix Defessa senem passus componere membra Geor. 4. Of Proteus setling himself to sleep Portending Bo. 6. v. 578. Unanimous Bo. 4. v. 736. V. 611. Dreams Advise Inform instruct of Aviser Fr. to Counsel give advise to That God often revealed his Will and signified his pleasure to his Prophets and others in Dreams and Visions of the Night is remarkable through the whole Tract of Holy Writ If there be a Prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a Vision and will speak unto him in a Dream Numb 12. 6. Propitious Bo. 5. v. 507. Presaging Bo. 1. v. 627. V. 616. With thee to go is to stay here c. To go along with thee is as pleasant as to stay here But to stay here without thee would be as sad as to go hence against my will Thou and where ere thou art is Paradise to me V. 625. Now to nigh th' Archangel stood Our Poet observes the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Decorum to the last degree making our first Parents such perfect Patterns of Modesty as to forbear their Endearments though but in Words at the Angels approach V. 629. Gliding Meteorous as Evening Mist Sliding ore the Surface as a Mist at Evening that rises from a Fuming River slides ore the moist Marshy Ground its Nursery Meteorous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. high quick sliding along insensibly silent and swift as a Mist does over the Ground aloft as Homer useth the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gliding of Glisser Fr. to slide or slip swifty along Marish or Marsh. Marais Fr. a moist moorish Ground of Mariscus Lat. Rushes commonly growing there Brandisht Shaken Waved round Bo. 2. v. 786. Blazed Bo. 6. 18. V. 634. Which with Torrid heat c. Which with roasting heat and fiery vapour like the scorching Air of Sun Burnt Afric began to inflame that moderate Climate Torrid Torridus Lat. burnt scorched whence the Torrid Zone so named of its suppos'd insupportable heat Quarum una corusco Semper sole rubens torrida semper ab igni Geor. 1. V. 635. The Libyan Air adust The burning Air of scorching Africa Libya so named of Libya the Daughter of Epaphus was by the Antients used to express Africa and was the most Southern part of the World known to them though properly it is but a part of it now known by the Name of the Kingdom and Desert of Barca Mundus premitur Libyae devexus in austros Geor. 1. Adust Adustus Lat. scorcht burnt V. 637. In either hand c. The Angel led our Parents loath to depart from their beloved Seat in each hand which the Designer of the Copper Plate has not well exprest representing him shoving them out as we say by Head and Shoulders Lingering staying delaying of the Ger. Leangern to delay and protract the time V. 640. To the subjected Plain To the Valley that lay below it Subjected of Subjicere Lat. to put under V. 643. Wav'd over by that flaming Brand O're which God's flaming Sword made many fiery Circles Brand of the Fr. Brandon or Belg. Brand a Torch a Fire-Brand of Brande Belg. to burn Wav'd Bo. 5. v. 193. FINIS
Night to be such as those that bound the enraged Ocean's proud swelling Waves whose Briny Billows rising much higher than the shelving Shore cannot be imagined to be stopt by the yielding Sand but by that Almighty Power that says Thus far shalt thou come and no farther Whose Voice the tumultuous Waves and stormy Winds obey Matth. 8. Vers. 24. 26 and 27. Mar. 4. Vers. 37. Luk. 8. Vers. 23. Attend the Boundaries appointed to that Proud Element always in Motion and so easily puft up Who shut up the Sea with Doors when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the Womb When I made the Cloud the Garment thereof and thick Darkness its Swadling Bands and established my Decree upon it and set Bars and Doors and said Hitherto shalt thâ—u come but no farther and here shall the Pride of thy Waves be stayed Job 38. Vers. 8 9 10 and 11. The same Command establish'd the Limits and Barriers of Night and Day V. 543. As when a Scout As when one sent through dark and dismal Night wandring through dangerous and unknown ways at break of comfortable Day has gain'd the top of some vast Hill Scout of the Fr. Esecuté a Harkener of Escouter to listen as it behoves a Scout to do when stealing through the Night Dawn of the Sax. Doegian to grow Day Brow of the Belg. Brauwe the Top or Height of any thing Peril of Periculum Lat. danger V. 549. Metropolis The chief City of a Kingdom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. the Mother-City Pinacles Ornaments on the Tops of Towers of the Barbarous Lat. Pinnaculum of Pinna V. 553. The Spirit Malign The wicked malicious Spirit Satan Malignus Lat. bearing ill-will to malicious This word is used in the Translation of many places of the first Epist. Gene. of St. John Chap. 2. Vers. 13 and 14. Chap. 3. Vers. 12. Not as Cain who was of that wicked one which the Vulgar Lat. renders Qui ex Maligno erat the Greek expressing it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so Chap. 5. Vers. 18 and 19. V. 557. Above the Circling Canopy of Nights Extended Shade So high above the darken'd Hemisphere the dark half of the World over which Night stretches her Shade Satan standing on one of those Golden Stairs leading to Heav'ns high Palace and thereby raised above the compass of Nights dark Veil that encloseth half the Globe while the enlightning Sun visits and enlivens with his chearful Rays the other half from so exalted a Station well might he look round and survey the whole World Canopy Fr. Canopée Lat. Conopeum all of the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly a Net hung about Beds against the Inconvenience and Importunities of Flyes and Gnats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. The Alexandrians were forced to this Invention by Multitudes of these buzzing and biting Insects that arose from the Nile and its Neighbourhood It was reckoned among the Effeminacies of the Romans Interque signa Turpe Militaria Sol aspicit Conopeum Ut testudines tibi Lentule Conopeo Juv. Sat. 6. It is since understood of the Tester of a Bed and of a State hanging over the Seats of Kings and Princes in Publiek call'd Canopies of Estate V. 558. Of Libra to the Fieecy Star c. He takes a view of the World from the most Eastern Point of Libra to the Constellaâ—ion call'd Andromeda carried by the Ram wide of the Western Ocean beyond the Horizon then from North to South and without more delay c. Libra is one of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack represented by the Balance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which has occasioned it to be mistaken for Virgo It took its Name à Libranâ—o because when the Sun enters into this Sign Nâ—ctes Dies librantâ—r the Days and Nights being equal are in a Counterpoâ—se I â—bâ—a die 〈◊〉 que 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Georg. 1. V. 559. Andromeda Was the Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopoea the Beautiful Off-spring of a vain-glorious Mother who having despised the Beauties of Juno or as others say of the Sea-Nymphs Neptune punish'd her Arrogance by sending a strange Sea-Monster who depopulating the Country the Oracle was consulted and by it her Daughter doomed to be devoured by it Perseus came to her relief kill'd the Destroyer releas'd the Lady and Married her for his reward Illic Immeritam Maternae pendere Linguae Andromedam poenas injustus jusser at Ammon Quam simul ad duras religatam brachia Cautes c. Metam Lib. 4. By the favour of Minerva they were all placed among the Stars Jam clarus Occultum Andromeda Pater Ostendit ignem Hor. Carm. Lib. 3. Od. 29. The Fleecy Star that bears Andromeda Is meant of Aries the Phrixean Ram advanced among the Constellations in memory of the Golden Fleece just over whose back Andromeda is placed Ibid. Atlantick Seas The Western Ocean taking this Name of Atlas the greatest Mountain in all Affrica heaving it self up in Mauritania near this Sea Ovid makes him a mighty King turn'd into Stone for his rudeness to Perseus Constitit Hesperio Regnis Atlantis in Orbe Metam Lib. 4. V. 561. Without longer pause Immediately without delay Pause Fr. stop stay Pausement leisurely V. 563. Precipitant Headlong as before Down-right Praecipitans Lat. to fall headlong of Praeceps V. 564. The pure Marble Air Marble Marmoreus Lat. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. white shining of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shine to glister is often used to express clearness or whiteness without any reflection on its hardness So Virg. Marmoreâ Caput à cervice revulsum Geo. 4. Winds his oblique way Turns and winds up and down Obliquus Lat. sidewise crooked away Obliquatque sinus in ventum AEn 5. V. 565. Amongst Innumerable Stars That the Stars are Numberless the Holy Scriptures seem to assert Look now towards Heaven and tell the Stars if thou be able to number them Gen. 15. Vers. 5. The Lord thy God hath made thee as the Stars of Heaven for Multitude Deut. 10. Vers. 32. Of God it is said He telleth the Number of the Stars He calleth them all by their Names Psal. 147. Vers. 4. As if their Number were Incomprehensible to any Creature Stellae dinumerari non possint quia nec omnes eas videri posse credendum est c. August de Civi Dei Lib. 16. Cap. 23. That the Number of the Fixt Stars is unknown to Mankind Aristotle in his Book De Mundo and his second Book De Coelo as also Plato in Timaeo and Seneca in his Natural Quest. Lib. 6. Cap. 16. do all affirm But the most conspicuous and considerable and all that at so vast a distance can be discerned are by the best Astronomers reckoned 1022 and distributed into 48 Constellations according to their various Magnitudes and Sizes those of the sixth Magnitude being bigger than the Earth 18 times insomuch that they undertake Mathematically to prove That if the whole Cavity of Heaven were as full