The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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6648 think evil of
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6649 as good = they might/just as well not have known at all
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6650 flee
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6651 superintending
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6652 tiny point
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6653 whining
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6654 cut short
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6655 [verb]
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6656 heathen
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6657 “at least, if you are inquired for, it shall be”
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6658 indignation
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6659 volition [noun]
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6660 wrung, extorted
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6661 someone who is
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6662 profit, advantage
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6663 renounce, recant, disclaim
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6664 (1) restraint, (2) rebuff
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6665 free
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6666 spoken, uttered
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6667 sweet-sounding
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6668 characteristic of/belonging to forests or woods
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6669 flute
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6670 authoritative direction/admonition
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6671 marvel at
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6672 courtyards, grounds
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6673 help, serve
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6674 see Numbers 22:5 through 24:25
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6675 corrupt
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6676 still
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6677 scorn
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6678 purpose
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6679 feigned semblance
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6680 earthy
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6681 lying down, resting
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6682 recently
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6683 clearly, distinctly
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6684 lived in lodgings
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6685 see John 1:40
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6686 see John 1:41
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6687 afterward
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6688 displayed, exhibited
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6689 caught up = taken
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6690 Elijah: see 2 Kings 2:1–12
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6691 Bet ha-Arabah, north of the Dead Sea: see John 1:28
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6692 north of the Dead Sea: see Deuteronomy 34:3
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6693 in Samaria: see John 3:23
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6694 Salim, in Samaria: see John 3:23
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6695 stronghold east of the Dead Sea, earlier destroyed but rebuilt by Herod
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6696 the Sea of Galilee
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6697 region east of the Jordan River, between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea
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6698 willows
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6699 laments, complaints
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6700 carried/swept away
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6701 withdraw, disappear
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6702 uphold, maintain, justify
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6703 completed, brought about, done
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6704 consecrated
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6705 (1) foreknowledge, beneficent care, (2) divine intervention
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6706 Christ
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6707 strength
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6708 greeting
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6709 raised
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6710 remarkable
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6711 cold
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6712 Herod
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6713 not found
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6714 acknowledged
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6715 see Luke 2:34
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6716 murmur, complain
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6717 pondered
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6718 hides, keeps dark
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6719 extraordinarily
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6720 heavenly greeting
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6721 completion
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6722 traversing, traveling, treading
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6723 alone
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6724 purpose, aim
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6725 statement made in a preliminary way, hint
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6726 undisturbed
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6727 resourceless
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6728 assembly
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6729 examined, tested
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6730 enticement
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6731 similar
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6732 a “womanizing” demon: Asmodeus in Paradise Lost, Book 4, line 146, and Asmodai, in Paradise Lost, Book 6, line 365
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6733 demonic womanizer/seducer, who usually descended upon sleeping women
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6734 surpassing
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6735 well-spoken
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6736 mixed
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6737 dreadful, frightful
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6738 temperament
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6739 enervate, weaken
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6740 bring to nought, destroy
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6741 magnet
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6742 irregular
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6743 dote on = be infatuated with
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6744 complexion
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6745 dalliance
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6746 narration
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6747 nymph, attendant on Artemis, twin sister of Apollo [trisyllabic, second accented]
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6748 daughter of Oceanus, mother of Atlas [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6749 nymph-huntress who fled from all would-be lovers [bisyllabic, first accented]
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6750 mother of Dionysus, by Zeus [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6751 Antiopé, seduced and impregnated by Zeus [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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6752 rescued from a satyr by Poseidon, who then seduced her [four syllables, first and third accented]
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6753 nymph pursued by Pan and transformed into a reed to escape him [bisyllabic, first accented]
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6754 transgressions, escapades
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6755 god of the wild woods
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6756 habits, practices
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6757 Alexander the Great [trisyllabic, second accented]
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6758 carelessly
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6759 Scipio Africanus, 236–183 B. C., who triumphed in Spain and in the Second Punic War
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6760 sent away
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6761 a young Spanish captive to whom, it was said, he had been attracted; she loved someone else
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6762 food
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6763 intention, plan
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6764 (1) condition, (2) greatness, power
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6765 deliberation
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6766 foolish, insipid
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6767 encompassed
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6768 girdle/belt
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6769 see Homer’s Iliad, 14:214–18
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6770 i.e., “how one look from his majestic brow (seated as on the top of virtue’s hill) would….
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6771 shame, disapprove
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6772 dejected
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6773 ostentatious ornament not necessarily composed of, but resembling, feathers
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6774 whim, caprice
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6775 display of disregard
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6776 confused, destroyed
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6777 is starving
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6778 consent
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6779 signal
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6780 “if there were reason (cause)”
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6781 energetic
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6782 for the first time
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6783 ascribe/attribute to
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6784 as long as
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6785 extreme hunger, starvation
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6786 held intimate mental intercourse
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6787 where God directed Elijah to hide from King Ahab: see 1 Kings 17:2–3
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6788 i.e., in his dream
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6789 lentils, peas, beans (“plain/simple food”)
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6790 at once
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6791 lifted (went up)
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6792 have knowledge of
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6793 view, landscape
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6794 shed, stall
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6795 hollow, valley
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6796 singing
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6797 walks, passageways
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6798 spread out
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6799 of a
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6800 having been taught
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6801 more decorously
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6802 dutifully
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6803 remain, wait, continue
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6804 Hagar: see Genesis 21:14–19
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6805 her son was Ishmael, whose son was Nebaioth: see Genesis 25:12–13
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6806 would have
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6807 Elijah
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6808 thereafter as = according to how
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6809 approve of
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6810 offer, present
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6811 vigor, energy, capacity
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6812 see Daniel 1:8–16
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6813 hesitate, be reluctant
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6814 need
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6815 supplied, furnished
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6816 taste, quality
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6817 framed (contained)
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6818 ambergris, at one time used in cooking
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6819 small freshwater stream
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6820 flowing
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6821 reputation
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6822 the Black Sea
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6823 near Naples
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6824 plain, low
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6825 dainties
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6826 deflected, turned aside
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6827 splendid, magnificent
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6828 tablelike board
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6829 spread abroad, poured out
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6830 slender
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6831 Trojan youth taken by Zeus as his cupbearer
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6832 handsome prince carried off by Hercules
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6833 now…now = first this, then that
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6834 danced
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6835 stood as if they were
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6836 horn of plenty (corum copiae): Amalthea was the all-bountiful goat that suckled infant Zeus
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6837 daughters of Night and guardians of the tree that bore golden apples
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6838 told, related
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6839 middle region of Britain: see Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot
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6840 mythical region west of Cornwall, in Britain
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6841 knights of King Arthur’s court
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6842 concordant, harmonizing
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6843 a gentle wind, but not so soft as a breeze
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6844 goddess of flowers
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6845 hesitates, fears [verb]
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6846 act of prohibition
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6847 prohibits (under Jewish law)
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6848 food, sustenance, victuals
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6849 courteous, excellent, noble
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6850 attendants, servants
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6851 moderately, restrainedly
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6852 push forward
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6853 careful attention
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6854 splendid, pretentious
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6855 [four syllables, first and third accented]
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6856 scorn, disdain
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6857 showy
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6858 dissatisfied
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6859 instead
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6860 appropriately
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6861 obvious
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6862 fetched-from-afar
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6863 completely, entirely
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6864 troublesome, persistent
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6865 (1) temperament, (2) moderation
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6866 management
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6867 poor circumstances
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6868 draw, obtain
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6869 suite, train, company of servants
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6870 or keep
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6871 foolish, stupid, giddy
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6872 at
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6873 ruler of Judea, 63–43 B.C., and Herod’s father [four syllables, second and fourth accented?]
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6874 Semitic tribe located south of the Dead Sea; traditionally, descendants of Esau, son of Isaac and elder twin of Jacob
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6875 heap up [verb]
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6876 exceedingly
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6877 virtue, valor, wisdom
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6878 once gained
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6879 virtue, valor, wisdom
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6880 see Judges 6–8
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6881 see Judges 11–12
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6882 David
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6883 Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, legendary hero, called from farming in 458 B.C. and, for urgent military reasons, made dictator; sixteen days later, having won the war, he resigned as dictator and went back to his farm
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6884 Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, consul in the early third century B.C., who refused all bribes, gifts, and favors; after his death, since he left nothing for his daughter’s dowry, it was provided by the Senate
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6885 Manius Curius Dentatus, also early third centuryB.C., was a successful general who gave all booty to the Roman republic and then, like Cincinnatus, retired to his farm
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6886 Marcus Atilius Regulus, captured in the First Punic War (with Carthage) was paroled on condition he present Carthage’s demands to Rome and then return; he advised rejection of Carthage’s terms, then returned as he had agreed, and was tortured to death: see Horace, Odes3:5
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6887 lacking, missing
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6888 snare, trap
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6889 diminish
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6890 sharpness
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6891 anything that
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6892 similar
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6893 “yet not for that reason is”
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6894 crown
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6895 every
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6896 shows, remains
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6897 governs, controls
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6898 [adjective, accent on first syllable]
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6899 protecting, guarding
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6900 noble
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6901 i.e., to give up a kingdom
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6902 high-souled, nobly valiant
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6903 receive, lay claim to: i.e., nobler to give or refuse than to take a kingdom