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

[948]. gloss: comment, construe.

[950]. To thine: compared to thine.

[988, 989]. in mount Ephraim Jael: Judges iv. 5.

[990]. Smote Sisera: Judges v. 26.

[1016]. thy riddle: Judges xiv. 12-19; in one day or seven: connect with 'harder to hit.'

[1018]. If any of these, or all: if it be any or all of these qualities, virtue, wisdom, valor, etc., that can win or long inherit (possess) woman's love, the Timnian bride had not so soon preferred thy paranymph (bridesman). Judges xiv., xv.

[1022]. Nor both: nor both wives; disallied: severed.

[1025]. for that: because.

[1025-1060]. Is it for that such outward ornament: the ideas expressed in these verses, it must be admitted, were too much Milton's own, in regard to woman, as his Divorce pamphlets show.

[1030]. affect: like.