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The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems

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by John Milton; Burton Raffel


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  5813 hundred-eyed spy for Jove/Jupiter/Zeus

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  5814 messenger of Jove

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  5815 opiate rod = sleep-inducing staff

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  5816 goddess of dawn [trisyllabic, second accented, “-thea” elided]

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  5817 anointed

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  5818 prayers

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  5819 Adam’s

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  5820 efficaciously, powerfully

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  5821 will do

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  5822 sinned against

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  5823 gentle, forgiving

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  5824 smash, crush, destroy

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  5825 thought of, remembered

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  5826 (1) sad, (2) sober

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  5827 pleasing, gracious

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  5828 to thou

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  5829 so high, thus high

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  5830 title

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  5831 granted, deigned, condescended

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  5832 “now the labor is….

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  5833 imposed

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  5834 tired, laborious

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  5835 assented, agreed

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  5836 produced on, communicated through

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  5837 darkened, obscured

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  5838 rosy gleam

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  5839 the eagle

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  5840 swiftly descended

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  5841 circuit

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  5842 the lion

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  5843 pair

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  5844 hart and hind = stag and doe (male and female deer)

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  5845 perhaps

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  5846 confident

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  5847 because of

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  5848 liberation

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  5849 more bright = brighter

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  5850 filled

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  5851 this time

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  5852 jasper is a highly variegated colored form of quartz

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  5853 manifestation, appearance

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  5854 bodily

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  5855 “that ‘apparition’ was not more glorious when….

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  5856 “tents of angels”

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  5857 pavilioned = covered with the tents of

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  5858 “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host”—Genesis 32:1–2

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  5859 see 2 Kings 6

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  5860 the prophet Elisha

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  5861 treacherously

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  5862 made, commenced

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  5863 Michael

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  5864 the formation in which the Cherubim had halted

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  5865 decide, resolve, end

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  5866 lowest rank

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  5867 clothes

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  5868 [four syllables, first and third accented]

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  5869 trust, have confidence in

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  5870 lofty, exalted

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  5871 luminous, bright

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  5872 armor

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  5873 loose robe

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  5874 more brilliant/vivid

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  5875 Thessalian town famous for its bright purple dye

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  5876 dyed cloth

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  5877 Tyre, Phoenician seaport, now in Lebanon

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  5878 goddess of the rainbow

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  5879 thread

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  5880 helmet

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  5881 belt of stars

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  5882 see Book 6, lines 320–27, above

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  5883 i.e., the archangel Michael

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  5884 high rank, dignity

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  5885 command

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  5886 compensate for

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  5887 completely

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  5888 greedy, grasping

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  5889 cultivate

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  5890 held fast, tied up

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  5891 disclosed, revealed

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  5892 quickly

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  5893 withdrawal

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  5894 delay, temporary extension of time

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  5895 fatal

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  5896 stop, visit

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  5897 gentle

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  5898 arrange

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  5899 water you

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  5900 compared to

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  5901 dark

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  5902 accustomed as we are

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  5903 over-fond = over-affectionate

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  5904 daze, stupor, depression

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  5905 carrying out, executing

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  5906 secluded place

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  5907 persistent

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  5908 smothering

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  5909 visit often [verb, second syllable accented]

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  5910 (1) pleasing, (2) feeling gratitude

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  5911 lower

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  5912 offspring, descendants

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  5913 outermost

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  5914 (1) bottom part of God’s robe, (2) outlying boundaries of His kingdom

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  5915 species

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  5916 bathed with warm lotions, cherished/roused/stirred up

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  5917 nourishing

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  5918 [four syllables, first and third accented]

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  5919 flat, level

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  5920 exact, unmistakable

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  5921 lofty, exalted

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  5922 disputing, struggling, fighting

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  5923 alloy

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  5924 fatal

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  5925
steeped (drugged)

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  5926 sight of the future

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  5927 [verb]

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  5928 open, visible

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  5929 “…the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. In the visions of God brought He me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain….—Ezekiel 40:1–2

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  5930 range of vision

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  5931 [the full verb is “lay stretched out”]

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  5932 view

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  5933 Christ

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  5934 Adam’s

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  5935 Peiping (Beijing), capital of Cathay/China

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  5936 khan, emperor

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  5937 capital of Temir/Tamerlane’s Tatar empire

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  5938 Asian river, flowing from Turkey/Afghanistan to the Aral Sea in Siberia

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  5939 Peiping (Beijing)

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  5940 Chinese

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  5941 a Mogul capital in southern India

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  5942 a Mogul capital in northern India

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  5943 Malacca

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  5944 Hamadan, ancient summer capital of Persian kings

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  5945 Isfahan, city in what is now Malaysia

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  5946 Byzantium/Istanbul

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  5947 Turkestan is a country in central Asia

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  5948 see

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  5949 name of Abyssinian king

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  5950 now Archico, port city on the Red Sea

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  5951 Mombasa, in modern Kenya

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  5952 Kilwa, in modern Tanzania

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  5953 Malindi, in modern Kenya

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  5954 port city in what is now Mozambique

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  5955 thought to be

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  5956 biblical land from which King Solomon obtained gold for the building of the Temple

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  5957 river

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  5958 in modern Mauritania

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  5959 d. 1002, Muslim ruler in Spain and northern Africa

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  5960 Fez and Sus are both in Morocco

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  5961 modern Tlemcen, in Algeria

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  5962 Montezuma, Aztec emperor of Mexico

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  5963 capital of the Inca empire; now Cuzco, in modern Peru

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  5964 Atahuallpa, Inca ruler [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]

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  5965 the Spanish: Geryon = monster, native to Cadiz, in Spain, who was killed by Hercules

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  5966 herb used for treatment of eye diseases

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  5967 medicinal herb

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  5968 obliged, forced

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  5969 forbidden

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  5970 obtain by descent

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  5971 ploughland

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  5972 under cultivation

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  5973 sward, turf

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  5974 to the altar

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  5975 at once

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  5976 Cain

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  5977 unselected, a random choice

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  5978 such as first “came to hand”

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  5979 courteous

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  5980 internal organs, entrails

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  5981 favorable, gracious

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  5982 quick, sudden

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  5983 flash/movement

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  5984 other’s (Cain’s) = other’s offering

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  5985 Abel

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  5986 poured out freely

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  5987 harm, evil, misfortune

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  5988 (1) action, deed, (2) crime

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  5989 attested, confirmed

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  5990 thickened blood

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  5991 (1) natural, (2) of his birthplace

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  5992 [here, though usually bisyllabic, trisyllabic, first and third accented]

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  5993 “but there are many shapes”

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  5994 failure to abstain

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  5995 noxious, ill-smelling, offensive

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  5996 leper

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  5997 violent stretching/straining

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  5998 fits

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  5999 nasal discharge

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  6000 belly

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  6001 deranged, lunatic

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  6002 languishing, wasting

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  6003 wasting, emaciation

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  6004 a wasting disease

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  6005 bubonic plague

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  6006 swelling up of body parts

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  6007 hideous

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  6008 overcame

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  6009 dragged, wrenched

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  6010 thrust

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  6011 beautiful, graceful

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  6012 likeness

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  6013 degraded

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  6014 animal-like

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  6015 due

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  6016 transitions, journeys

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  6017 natural, congenital

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  6018 come, go

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  6019 blunted

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  6020 go/leave first

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  6021 now has (in old age)

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  6022 depression, stupor

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  6023 finally

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  6024 concerned, intending

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  6025 released, freed

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  6026 oppressive

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  6027 duty, responsibility

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  6028 rendering up = giving back

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  6029 wait for

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  6030 [trisyllabic]

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  6031 neither

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  6032 submit, allow

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  6033 “near some of the tents”<
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  6034 harmony, accord

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  6035 he who

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  6036 rapid, flying

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  6037 imbued

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  6038 accidental

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  6039 worked

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  6040 fused, cast

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  6041 carved

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  6042 other

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  6043 appearance

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  6044 upright, righteous

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  6045 final

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  6046 company

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  6047 frivolous, lewd, unchaste

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  6048 songs

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  6049 came on = advanced, came forward

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  6050 serious, weighty, somber

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  6051 negotiate, deal

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  6052 Venus

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  6053 forerunner

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  6054 offered to

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  6055 summon

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  6056 god of marriage

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  6057 before anything else?

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  6058 fortunate

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  6059 meeting

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  6060 outcome

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  6061 pieces of music

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  6062 seized sympathetically

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  6063 confess, acknowledge

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  6064 propensity

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  6065 foreshadows

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  6066 goals, purposes

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  6067 proper, fitting

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  6068 compliance

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  6069 smoothen

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  6070 unusual, uncommon

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  6071 merry

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  6072 perfected

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  6073 wag

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  6074 snares, tricks

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  6075 at large = fully, when God sends down the Flood

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  6076 robbed, deprived

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  6077 began

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  6078 crooked, devious

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  6079 spiritless, oppressive

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  6080 course

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  6081 man’s woe = wo-man

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  6082 country, rustic

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  6083 assembled

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  6084 prowess, fame

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  6085 assembling

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  6086 choice [adjective]

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  6087 oxen

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  6088 cattle

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  6089 with life = alive

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  6090 [bisyllabic]

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