137 and found Strength Added from Above, new Hope to out of Difpaire, Joy, but with Fear yet linkt ; 'tis Delightful to fee how Finely Milton obferves all the Growth of the New Man. Creation was all at Once, Regeneration is like the Natural Progreffion, we are Babes, and come by Degrees to be Strong Men in Chrift. Or, to compare it to what was juft Now Defcrib'd, there is the Dawn of Leucothea, the Brightening Aurora, then the Rifing Sun, and then the Meridian Glory. Now the Morn Purples the Eaft in the Hemisphere of these Penitents, as Pf. II. 11. Serve the Lord with Fear, and Rejoice with Trembling. 140 Which Thus to Eve His welcome Words renew'd. His, Adam's words Renew'd, kept up, and Improv'd thofe Good and Compofing Thoughts the found in her Breaft after Prayer. 149 by Prayer th' Offended Deitie to appease, Kneel'd and before him Humbl'd all my Heart, True Spiritual Prayer, not for Supply of Temporal Wants, but for Pardon and Acceptance. and 'twas Immediately Answer'd. P. xxxviii. 15. lxxxvi. 7. 153 Peace return'd Home to my Breast, Home, before the Lofs of Innocence, his Breast was the Dwelling of Peace (IX. 1125) Sin drove it Thence, 'tis Now return'd to its Home. 168 the Sourfe of Life; am Grac't That Honour is Vouchfaft to Me. 185 the Bird of Jove, Stoopt from his Aerie tour, the Eagle. Stoop is a term in Falconry, it means coming down towards the Prey. bis Aerie Tour, his Whirling about Aloft in Search of it, Cinxere polum, Æn. I. 402. 196 baply too Secure of our Difcharge baply as IV. 8. Perhaps too little Apprehending Danger, too Prefuming. 200 and be no more the Souls Immortality was not yet Reveal'd to Adam, tho' he, as the Ancient Heathens, had fome Glimerings of it, as X. 782. 204 more Orient in Orient is here for yon and Morning Light Bright, as V. 2. I. 546. There's a Brighter Morning in That Weftern White Cloud than what was before the Darknefs Now rifen ere Mid-day. a Sweet Defcription, and how properly Different from that Other Angelic Appearance, V. 310! C 209 Down from a Skie of Jasper Rev. xxi. II. — her Light was like unto a Stone moft Precious, even like a Jafper Stone, Clear as Chryftal. of Fafpers there are divers Colours, the Green is Moft efteem'd. • Now the Azure of the Sky, mix'd with the Glory of the Angel makes a Greenish Tinct, a Jajper Brightness; This with the Radient white Cloud gives an Idea of Colours most Delightful: Add the Angel, as Defcrib'd Prefently after, in his Lucid Arms, a Flowing Purple Drapery; his Angelick Face, Limbs, and Gait, Solemn and Sublime; Imagine too ⚫ our First Parents, Beautiful Still though in Sorrow and Fear; with the Paradifaical Landscape, and what a Picture! 210 made Alt pure Italian. far Alto, a Military term to Stop, to Halt, to make Halt is Non-fenfe. See the Vocab. Crufc. where far Alto is explain'd by fermarfi (Ital) Confiftere (Lat.) Some Editions have made Halt; in Milton's Own 'tis as Here. 211 and Carnal Fear kad net Doubt Uncertain Uncertain of their State, and what it was to be, and Fearing accordingly; Such Fear as that of v. 139. Carnal, Oppos'd to Filial Fear. IX. 1082. XII. 305. Still the Bruifed Reed; but He will Send forth Judgment unto Victory. Matt. xii. 20. 214 Jacob in Mahanaim Gen. xxxii. 1, 2. 217 in Dothan 11. Kin. VI. 13, 14. 229 from yonder Blazing Cloud that Veils the Hill One of the Heav'nly Hoft, that Veils the Hill as the Cloud did Mount 0reb when God defcended to give the Law; whence, (among Other Reasons) 'tis call'd the Secret top, as i. 6. the Picture begun Here and continu'd in the following eighteen Lines is Exquifite. the Cloud on the Hill, hiding the Top of it with its Blaze, the Angel defcending from it, Solemnly Sublime, &c.' Compare This of Michael with the Appearance of Raphael in the beginning of the Vt Book, Both are Admirable in their Kinds, Adam Himfelf does it, v. 234. 242 Melibaan Melibaa was a Sea-port Town of Theffaly, famous for a Fish whence they had a Rich PurI i 4 ple. Ibid Ibid. of Sarra, the Grain the Die of Sarra. See the Note on V. 285. This was Another Bright Purple and very Durable. Sarra is the Ancient Name of Tyre. the Word Grain belongs to Both, the Melibaan and the Tyrian Purple. 244 Iris had dipt the Wooff; the Rainbow had given its Colours e'er 'twas Wove. One of the Colours of the Rainbow is Purple. 245 His Starry Helm it hon as a Star. This Epithet is frequently given by the Ancient Poets to Any thing very Glittering; 'tis even given to Youth because of the Gaiety of That Sweet Season of Life. Siderea Juventas. Val. Flacc. of Jajon, VIII. 26. The Idea Milton gives Here of Michael's Helmet, is like That given of the Countenance of Sathan e'er he Fell (whatever his Name was Then) V. 708. 247 as in a Gliftering Zodiac the Zodiac is a Circle in the Heavens, in which are the Signs through which the Sun paffes in his Annual Courfe; Thefe Signs are the Ram, Bull, Twinns, &c. and This Circle is Oblique from one Tropick to the Other, fomthing in the |