Newton, in his edition of Milton, is silent. Bentley says in a note:
"Foolish ostentation, in a thing that a child may be taught in a map of these imaginary spheres. Talk'd, not good English, for called, styled, named."
Paterson, in his Commentary on Paradise Lost, 1744, for the sight of which I am indebted to the courtesy of the librarian of the Chetham Library, says:
"Trepidation, Lat., an astronomical T., a trembling, a passing. Here, two imagined motions of those spheres. Therefore Milton justly ridicules those wild notions."
Granting that trepidation and whose balance weighs are understood, can any of your readers explain the phrase trepidation talk'd?
W. B. H.
Manchester.
Lines on the Temple.
—Can any of your readers inform me if these lines, said to be the impromptu production of some passer-by struck with the horse and lamb over the Temple gates, have ever been in print, and where?
"As by the Templars holds you go,