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

The tawny lion, pawing to get free

His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds,

And rampant shakes his brinded mane.'

[144]. foreskins: uncircumcised Philistines.

[145]. Ramath-lechi: see Judges xv. 17.

[147]. Azza: Gaza. See Judges xvi. 3. The form Azzah is used Deut. ii. 23.

[148]. Hebron, seat of giants old: for Hebron was the city of Arba,

the father of Anak, and the seat of the Anakims.—Josh. xv. 13, 14. 'And the Anakims were giants, which come of the giants.'—Num. xiii. 33. Newton.

[149]. No journey of a sabbath-day: Hebron was about thirty miles distant from Gaza; a sabbath-day's journey was but three-quarters of a mile.

[150]. Like whom: Atlas.