An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

[156]. false presentments: representations which deceive the eye.

[157]. quaint habits: strange garments.

[165]. virtue: peculiar power. See v. 621; 'Il Pens.,' 113.

[167]. country gear: rural affairs.

[168]. fairly: softly.

[175]. granges: used in its original sense—barns. (Fr. grange.)

[178]. swilled: drunken.

[180]. inform my unacquainted feet: where else shall I learn my way than from these revellers.

[203]. perfect: perfectly distinct, sure, certain, unmistakable. There is a similar use of the word in Shakespeare: 'Thou art perfect, then, our ship hath touched upon the deserts of Bohemia?'—Winter's Tale, III. iii. 1; 'I am perfect that the Pannonians and Dalmatians for their liberties are now in arms.'—Cymb., III. i. 73; 'What hast thou done? I am

perfect what' ('I know full well, I am fully aware.' Schmidt).—Cymb., IV. ii. 118.