goats was regorged by them who had eaten too much.' This, along with the
preceding and the following verse, gives a Miltonic sublimity of the
disgusting to the passage. But the prefix 're-' is, perhaps, simply
intensive, and 'regorged' may mean gorged, or swallowed, voraciously.
The construction is, 'And (while they, 'they' being implied in 'their,'
above) fat regorged of bulls and goats, . . . Among them he (our living
Dread) a spirit of phrenzy sent.'
1674. _Silo_: Shiloh. Joshua xviii. 1, Judges xxi. 19. 'He probably
terms it _bright_, on account of the Shekinah which was supposed to rest
on the ark.'—_Keightley._
1688. _and thought extinguished quite_: this phrase is understood by
some as a nominative absolute (the Latin ablative absolute), thought
having been quite extinguished; but 'thought' is rather a past
participle referring to 'he': thought to be entirely extinguished.
1692. _as an evening dragon came_: 'he' (Samson) is the subject of
'came'; he came among the Philistines as an evening dragon comes on tame
farmhouse fowl, but afterward bolted his cloudless thunder on their
heads, as an eagle.
1699. _that self-begotten bird_: the phœnix.
1700. _embost_: enclosed in a wood.
1702. _erewhile_: for some time before; _holocaust_: a whole burnt
offering.
1703. _teemed_: brought forth.
1704. _revives_: the subject is 'Virtue,' 1697.
1707. _A secular bird_: a bird living for generations. Lat. _sæcula_.
1713. _sons of Caphtor_: the Philistines, 'originally of the island
Caphtor or Crete. A colony of them settled in Palestine and there went
by the name of Philistim.'—_Meadowcourt, in Todd's Var. Ed. of Milton._
1733. _Home to his father's house_: see Judges xvi. 31.
1753. _band them_: unite themselves.
1755. _acquist_: acquisition.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the
original. Words with and without accents appear as in the original.
The following corrections have been made to the original text:
Page xxix: lessen the value of my panegyric[original has
"pangeyric"] upon them
Page 136: ([parenthesis missing in original]For so I can
distinguish by mine art)
Page 175: '[quotation mark missing in original]But not the
praise,' Phœbus replied
Page 251: situated on the Dee (Lat. _Deva_[original has
extraneous period]).
Page 255: specified neighborhood, or perhaps a special
house.'[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 269: the mud of their own making (Ovid, _Met._, vi.
335-381).[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 273: ([quotation mark missing in original]'I know full
well, I am fully aware.' _Schmidt_).
Page 274: 'And every one did swincke, and every one did
sweat.'[quotation mark missing in original]—2. 7, 36