...where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers. And injury and outrage: and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (1.49o-5o2) Denoting both ignorance and unchastity, his "lewd" demeanor anticipates attack on Satan...

...sort' (Lieb 147), until in Paradise Lost he recalls her as a victim of the foulest sons of Belial: 'Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night / In...hospitable door / Exposed a matron to avoid worse rape' (1.503-5). Milton makes a clear distinction in his work between a wife and a concubine, but he calls...

...('vagabond lust') to the highest echelons: In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns . . .And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Milton's acoustic portrait of a city terrorized by drunken aristocrats fits Restoration London far...

...where the noise Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Tow'rs, And injury and outrage: And when Night SOP Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of...and that night In Gibeah, when the hospitable door Expos'da Matron to avoid worse rape. 50? These were the prime in order and in might; The rest were...

...where the noise Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Tow'rs, And injury and outrage: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of...insolence and wine. Witness the Streets of Sodom. (1.497-5o3) In this passage, the abusive behavior spills outside of the court and into the city streets...

...Cities, where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs, And injury and outrage: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (PL 1.490-505) he is, as Flannagan puts it, "the epitome of everything a good Puritan should despise,"...

...where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage: and when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.0 Wimess the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeah, when the hospitable door Exposed a matron...

...LATIN PROVERB Wine on beer brings good cheer; beer on wine is not so fine. AMERICAN PROVERB When night darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons. Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST Some of the most dreadful mischiefs that afflict mankind proceed from wine;...

...had written angrily about what he regarded as the dissoluteness of Restoration London: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth the Sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (1.500-502) Bethel, sheriff of London, who had the distinction of plotting against both Cromwell and...

...and fists to keep the person at bay until a referee arrives. The Place Where You Park And when night darkens the streets, Then wander forth the sons of Belial, Flown with insolence and wine,"8 John Milton The night is a different world. What appears safe and crowded in the daytime will...