Kevrici val with servle punishment! THE SUPET, Mi that indess worse than this, Ka. I zucie prase thy marriage-choices, son, Cher score mi the ph; thou the sooner Mit de siered as of sence Cesta v dre; which to have kept TAX By ever: ; and thou bear'st Imre, the burden of that fault; her is to put and start paying, Tanism. A wire thing yet remains: 1- the Philistines a popular feast" ~ ZETI I Gama ; and proclaim YOR, Li sráce, and prises kud, Is the pad wine hach deliver'd Sasa Nani mi bind into their hands, ància, vir sew st them many a slain. Jess visa på raped with idols, a xerad the mast vid shame that ever PA PAS JAT Fist of mégance and passionate self-reproach upon is gming suit yet se huse, JC-THYER. 47,0 mm & pupular feast, ke. vees jf the Pilates gathered them together, for to offer Yet ther you and to regione : for they said, Our god hath delivered This laciant the poet bas finely improved, and as reach of Susa into the mouth of his father, Of idolists and atheists; have brought scandal Mine eye to harbour sleep, or thoughts to rest. He, be sure, 455 460 465 470 And with confusion blank his worshippers ". Man. With cause this hope relieves thee, and these words I as a prophecy receive; for God, Nothing more certain, will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name Against all competition, nor will long To some Philistian lords, with whom to treat By pains and slaveries, worse than death, inflicted Sam. Spare that proposal, father; spare the trouble Of that solicitation; let me here, As I deserve, pay on my punishment; 475 480 485 And expiate, if possible, my crime, n Blank his worshippers. That is, confound. So, in "Hamlet," a. iii. s. 2. Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Milton often uses the adjective "blank" also in the sense of confounded.—TODD. o And these words I as a prophecy receive. 490 This method of one person's taking an omen from the words of another, was frequently practised among the ancients; and in these words the downfall of Dagon's worshippers is artfully presignified, as the death of Samson is in other places; but Manoah, as it was natural, accepts the good omen, without thinking of the evil that is to follow.-NEWTON. reg the secrets of the gods was Tue. Dec. 16. Poete impendere apad 10 essen, de mentiam, et superbiloquentiam." sane Mlsiner, and he the same reas, n. 4 Orestes," v. 8. IN KORT" ATSes tanght, that the gods puZNOT NID IN WALL ID Ta on if the mysteries. Milton had here in his eye LIL. BE TO T TBOL ZANJE. Nerua fom the - Tusculan Questions” does not explain the JE'S A HOT TImei a: nether does the passage from Euripides without its where mared it is said that Tantalus was punished for revealing ¤ Suns a te pas. Br de cassical authority in Milton's mind I suppose to have ! PILTI CINSKT ascribes the punishment of Tantalus to his shameful viac a su i be a gravoos crime, De Art. Amandi,” ii. 601, &c.— A these mais, Vind wie kamus but God hath set before us: "what" for "those The expressum is a little hard, but to this effect: Reject not these means of sursa, which, fie any thing one can tell, God may have set before us, or suggested to us, All mortals I excell'd, and great in hopes, With youthful courage, and magnanimous thoughts Of acts indeed heroic, far beyond The sons of Anak, famous now and blazed; I walk'd about admired of all, and dreaded Cho. Desire of wine, and all delicious drinks, Into the snare I fell of fair fallacious looks, venereal trains. 525 530 535 540 545 See Fairfax's translation of Tasso, b. iv. 26, where Hedroart, sending Armida to seduce the Christian host, and, if possible, its leader, bids her Frame snares of looks, trains of alluring speech.-DUNSTER. At length to lay my head, &c. Compare Spenser's "Faerie Queene," ii. vi. 14. Thus when shee had his eyes and sences fed With false delights, and fill'd with pleasures vayn, Into a shady vale she soft him led, And layd him downe upon a grassy playn: She sett beside, laying his head disarm'd In her loose lap.-TODD. The dancing ruby, &c. Dr. Newton and Mr. Thyer remark, that the poet probably alludes to Prov. xxiii. 31. "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright." Milton has also "rubied nectar,' "Par. Lost," b. v. 633. And dancing he has transferred hither from his "Comus," v. 673. And first behold this cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.-TODD. Or taste that cheers the heart of gods and men. a god Judges ix. 13, "Wine which cheereth God and man." Milton says 66 gods," which is a just paraphrase, meaning the hero gods of the heathen. Jotham is here speaking to an idolatrous city, that " ran a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god; sprung from among men, as may be partly collected from his name, as well as from divers other circumstances of the story. Hesiod, in a similar expression, says that "the vengeance of the Fates pursued the crimes of gods and men," Theog. v. 220.-WARBURTON. ▾ Cool crystalline stream. Borrowed by Mason, in his additions to Gray's fragment of an "Ode to Vicissitude." Sam. Wherever fountain or fresh current f. w'i Cho. O, madness, to think use of strongest wines Sam. But what avail'd this temperance, not complete What boots it at one gate to make defence, Effeminately vanquisl.'d? by which means, Now blind, dishearten'd, shamed, dishonour'd, queli'd, Here rather let me drudge and earn my bread; * Wherever fountain or fresh current flow”d Against the eastern ray, &c. This circumstance was very probably suggested to our author by Tasso's poem Del Mondo creato," giorna iii. st. 8.-THYER. Mr. Geddes, in his learned and entertaining " Essay on the Composition, &c. of Plato," considers these lines of Milton as possessing much of the same spirit, though applied to another thing, with a passage in the philosopher's "Io," p. 533, 534, tom. i. edit. Serian. where, speaking of the poets, he says, "As soon as they enter the winding mazes of harmony, they become lymphatic, and rove like the furious Bacchanals, who in their frenzy draw honey and milk out of the rivers. The poets tell us the same thing of themselves," &c. Essay, 1748, p. 184.-TODD. With touch ethereal of Heaven's fiery rod. This description of the first ray of light at the moment of sunrise, is eminently bold and beautiful. We might trace it to Euripides, "Suppl." 652, to which Dr. Hurd refers Milton's "long-level'd rule of streaming light," Comus, v. 340.-DUNSTER. 7 Whose drink, &c. Samson was a Nazarite, Judges xiii. 7; therefore to drink no wine, nor shave his head. See Numb. vi. Amos ii. 12.-RICHARDSON. But to sit idle on the household hearth, &c. It is supposed, with probability enough, that Milton chose Samson for his subject, because he was a fellow-sufferer with him in the loss of his eyes: however, one may venture to say. that the similitude of their circumstances has enriched the poem with several very pathetic descriptions of the misery of blindness.-THYER. a Craze my limbs. He uses the word "craze" much in the same manner as in the "Par. Lost," b. xii. 210--NEWTON, |