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

[1079]. Men call me Harapha: 'No such giant is mentioned by name in Scripture; but see 2 Sam. xxi. 16-22. The four Philistine giants mentioned there are said to be sons of a certain giant in Gath called "the giant"; and the Hebrew word for "the giant" there is Rapha or Harapha. Milton has appropriated the name to his fictitious giant, whom he makes out in the sequel (1248, 1249) to be the actual father of that brood of giants.'—Masson.

[1080]. Og, or Anak: see Deut. iii. 11, ii. 10, and Gen. xiv. 5.

[1081]. Thou know'st me now: so in 'P. L.,' iv. 830:

'Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.'

[1090]. taste: to make trial of; Fr. tâter, OF. taster;

'he now began

To taste the bow, the sharp shaft took, tugg'd hard,' etc.

—Chapman's Homer's Od., xxi. 211.

[1092]. single me: challenge me to single combat.—Keightley.