[93] E.g. debel, disglorified, conglobe, illaudable, etc., date from the sixteenth century; Battailous goes back to Wycliff (N.E.D.).
[94] Cf.“Milton,” by Walter Raleigh (1915), pp. 247 foll.
[95] Vide Masson, “Milton’s Poetical Works,” Vol. III, pp. 77-78 (1890-).
[96] Similarly the “Virgil” translation has, e.g., in a round error for “wandering round and round,” etc.
[97] That it could easily become absurd was not unperceived in the eighteenth century. Vide Leonard Welsted: “Epistle to Mr. Pope,” May, 1730 (“Works in Verse and Prose,” London, 1787, p. 141).
[98] Vide “Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea,” ed. Myra Reynolds, pp. 210-213 (Chicago, 1903).
[99] Vide “Complete Poetical Works,” edited J. L. Robertson (Oxford, 1908), which includes a variorum edition of “The Seasons.”
[100] “Poetical Epistle to Mr. Thomson on the First Edition of his ‘Seasons’” (P.G.B., Vol. VIII, p. 504).
[101] “Letter to Mallett,” August 11, 1726.
[102] Cp. Morel, op. cit., pp. 419-424.