there was a Beauty in Hazarding Themselves for the Common Good though Really they Acted upon a Selfish Principle. Such with Us are no Better How Specious foever their Pretences are. 496 O Shame to Men! Devil with Devil damn'd Firm Concord bolds. An Inftance of Another Vertue Really PraЄtic'd in Hell; we hear of no Diffenfion among Themselves. 498 though under Hope of Heavenly Grace: and God proclaiming Peace, yet live in Hatred, Men Difagree, are Enemies to Each Other, are Un-forgiving though they all Hope for Forgiveness from God, whom they Offend More than One Man can Offend Another; and though God Proclaims, Commands Peace, Men live in Hatred, &c. 511 Him round a Globe of Fiery Seraphim inclos'd, As they were Spirits, Aloft in the Air, or on Firm Ground was alike to them. Globe here may be therefore Properly Understood, and the Seraphim may be Conceiv'd Above, Below, on Each Side, Around their Mighty Paramount; but as the Antients have call'd the Circle of Soldiers round the Suggeftum from whence whence the Emperor Harrangu'd them a Globe, Milton might probably intend that Idea only. Septus Armatarum Cobertium Globis. Amm. Marcell. Lib. xx. C. v. 513 Horrent This Word fometimes means Terrible; but Here, as Rightly and much more Poetically Briftled; their Spears feem'd as the Briftles of an Enrag d Wild Boar. VI. 82. 516 Speedy Cherubim Speedy in Executing the Orders they receiv'd; tis as if 'twas faid they Inftantly Obey'd. 517 Alchymie. the Name of that Art which is the Sublimer part of Chymistry, the Tranfmutation of Metals. Milton names no particular Metal but leaves the Imagination at Large, Any Metal poffible to be produc'd by that Mysterious Art; 'tis a Metanomy, the Efficient for the Effect; Vaftly Poetical! 518 by Haralds Voice Harald Thus fpelt in the Two firft Editions, Different from Ufual practice Herald or Herauld. the Word is from Araldo. (Ital.) One of the many proofs of the Exactness of Milton in Those his Own Editions. 530-th Olympian Games, or Pythian Fields; the Olympian or Olympic Games were celebrat ed ed in Greece every Four Years; they were Inftituted by Hercules in Honour of his Father Jupiter Olympius. These were Martial Exercifes in which Whoever had the Victory were Greatly Honour'd all their Lives after. the Pythian Games were Inftituted by Apollo in Memory of his having Slain the SerpentPython, and Return'd every Ninth year at first and afterward every Fifth. 536 Pric forth Spur forward ibid. Couch their Spears fix them in their Refts. Couch from Coucher (Fr.) to place. a Reft was made in the Breast of the Armour; and was call'd a Reft from Arrefter (Fr.) to Stay. 538 the Welkin the Sky. 539 Typhoan Rage more fell Typhæus, or Typhon was one of the Gyants that • Invaded Heaven. Fell, Wicked, Cruel, Fierce. 542 Alcides. Hercules. 550 and Complain that Fate FreeVertue fhould Enthral to Force or Chance. Vertue Here fignifies Courage and Military Prowels, Prowess, 'tis the Latin Signification not a Rectitude of Mind and Manners as v. 482. they complain that, being Originally Free and Valiant, Fate fhould Subject them to Superior Force (in Comparison of Which they were Therefore Weak) or to pure Hap-Hazard, in all Cafes if they are Subdu'd 'tis no Fault of Theirs, Fate must bear the Blame. 557 Others Apart fate on a Hill retir'd in Thoughts more Elevate the Thoughts of these on the Hill were on Much the Same Subject, That of Fate or Neceffity and Liberty of Will; only the Former entred not into the Dispute but took the point for Granted and Complain'd of it. These Reafon and Enquire Philofophically; This cannot be done but by a greater Elevation of Mind than was Neceffary to the Complainers. or to Mufitians, for they are not Here confider'd as Poets and on Sublime Subjects. 558 and Reafon'd high of Providence, Fore knowledge,Will, and Fate, Fix'd Fate, Free Will, Fore-knowledge Abfolute, and found no End, in Wandring Mazes loft. Homer and Virgil, and after them the Best Poets have endeavour'd, befides the Words, to Express what they Conceiv'd, by the Order of them: This is done Here to a Degree per haps haps beyond what is to be found Elsewhere; 'tis a Maze indeed! a Wandring Maze! Here is Another Remarkable, what belongs to the Perfon in the Maze (Wandering) is apply'd to the Maze it self. So I. 266. III. 652. There seems however to be an Inaccuracy, there is a Beautiful Repetition, but 'tis with the Omiffion of One of the particulars, Providence; but Providence is included in Foreknowledge Abfolute; Abfolutus in Latin fignifies Compleat; See VIII. 421. Now there is a Prescience which does not Influence the Event, (III. 117.) and a Prescience which alfo Fore-Ordains, This isBothUnited, Providence andSimple Fore-knowledge; 'tis Fore-knowledge Abfolute. Though the Text does not Say it, the Reader will from the Words naturally be led to imagine Some were Retir'd, in Thought, as well as from the Company, and Reason'd and Debated, Difcours'd within Themselves, on these Perplexing, but Important Suttleties: This gives a very Proper Image here, a very Melancholly and Touching One. as meer Prescience and Providence are Diftinct Things fo are Providence and Fate, though their Effects on Those under their Influence are Alike; the Firft is the Wife Direction of the Supream Being; the Other does not Neceffarily imply any Such. Some have. thought that Fate or Neceffity Governs All, that every Event in all the Worlds, Every Action of every Creature is the Effect of a Cause, |