Blows them transverse ten thousand leagues away
Into the devious air.'
[212]. pretend they ne'er so wise: claim they to be never so wise; the idea of falseness is not in the word 'pretend' as in its present use.
[219]. The first I saw at Timna: Judges xiv.
[221]. The daughter of an infidel: Milton probably had his first wife, Mary Powell, in his mind, whose family was infidel to his own political creed.
[222]. motioned: proposed.
[223]. intimate: inward, inmost.
[228]. fond: foolish.
[229]. vale of Sorec: a valley (and stream) between Askelon and Gaza, not far from Zorah.—Judges xvi. 4.
[230]. specious: good appearing.