So awful, that with honor thou may'ft love Thy mate, who fees when thou art seen least wise. Is propagated feem fuch dear delight 4 580 585 1 In loving thou doft well, in paffion not, Fairy Queen, B. 3. Cant. 5. St. 2. See alfo B. 3. Cant. 3. St. 1. But Milton in particular in what he says H In rea'fon, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'ft afcend, To whom thus half abash'd Adam reply'd. 595 So much delights me, as thofe graceful acts, 600 Union " and the ceafelefs round of ftudy "and reading, led me to the fhady "fpaces of philofophy; but chiefly 66 to the divine volumes of Plato, "and his equal Xenophon: where "if I fhould tell ye what I learnt "of chastity and love, I mean that άλλο αγέθαι, αρχομένον απο των δε των καλων εκείνο ένεκα το καλό, αε επανιέναι ώσπερ επαναβαθμοίς χρωμένον από ενθ επι δυο, και απο δυαν επι παντα τα καλα στο ματα, και απο των καλων σωμα των επι τα καλα επιτήδευματα, nal ATO TWV narwy exitudeuμa" which is truly fo" &c. Apol. for TOVETi Ta naka panjata es Smectymn. p. 111. Vol. 1. Edit. αν απο των μαθημάτων επ' εκείνο 1738. Thyer. το μαθημα τελεύτηση, ὁ ἔςιν εκ αλλά η αυτό έκανε το καλό μας θημα, και γνω αυτο τελευτῶν ὁ esi xanov. Plat. Conviv. p. 211. tom. 3. Edit. Serrani. This is the more probable from what Milton fays in the account which he gives of himself." Thus from the laureat "fraternity of poets, riper years, 591. and is judicious,] To be judicious means here to choofe proper qualities in Eve for the object of love; to love her only for what is truly amiable: not for the fenfe of touch whereby mankind is propagated, ver. 579, &c; but for what Adam found higher in her fociety, human, and rational, ver. 586, &c. Pearce. Union of mind, or in us both one foul; More grateful than harmonious found to th' ear. What inward thence I feel, not therefore foil'd, approve. 605 610 To love thou blam'ft me not, for love thou fay'st Irra as it is in Milton does not better exprefs the fhame and modeft confufion of Adam. lis. 598. Though higher of the genial bed by far,] The genial bed, fo Horace, Ep. I. I. 87. ledus geniaAnd with myfterious reverence I deem. He had applied this epithet to marriage before in IV. 743. Nor Eve the rites Myfterious of connubial love refus'd: And again, ver. 750. Hail wedded love, mysterious law. He means by it fomething that was not proper to be divulg'd, but ought to be kept in religious filence and rever'd like the myfteries. 618. To H 2 Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch? To whom the Angel with a smile that glow'd Celestial rofy red, love's proper hue, Anfwer'd. Let it fuffice thee that thou know'st 620 Us happy', and without love no happiness. Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclufive bars 618. To whom the Angel with a fmile that glow'd Nel vifo s'arrofsì l' Angel beato, Orl. Fur. Cant. 27. St. 35. 625 As thefe verfes Dr. Bentley would throw out: he has feveral objections to them; but they will be all answer'd by confidering the fenfe of the paffage. Raphael had faid that Spirits mix total; that is one circumftance, in which they differ from men: here he adds another circumftance of their difference, viz. they are fo unreftrain'd that they need no conveyance, that is, need not move to meet one another, as our flesh does to mix another foul, mediante corpore. In with other flesh, and one foul with fewer words, Spirits (fays Raphael) not only mix total, but they mix at a distance, and without approaching each other. This is Milton's fenfe; and now that unintelligible ftuff (as the Doctor calls it) need conveyance, as foul to mix with foul, is become As flesh to mix with flesh, or foul with foul. Be ftrong, live happy', and love, but first of all 630 His great command; take heed left paffion fway 635 And all the Bleft: ftand faft; to stand or fall very eafy to be understood. Pearce, 630. But I can now no more; the parting fun &c.] The converfation was now become of fuch a nature that it was proper to put an end to it: And now the parting fun beyond the earth's green Cape, beyond Cape de Verd the most western point of Africa, and verdant Iles, the ilands of Cape de Verd, a knot of small ilands lying off Cape de Verd, fubject to the Portuguese, Hefperian fets, fets weftward, fram Hefperus the evening ftar appearing there, my fignal to depart, for he was only to flay till the evening, V. 376. - for these mid hours, till evening rife, I have at will. 640 Free which should make the most lafting impreffion on the mind of Adam, and to deliver which was the principal end and defign of the Angel's coming. 634. Him whom to love is to obey,] For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments. 1 John V.3. His great command every body will readily understand to be the com-, mand not to eat of the forbidden tree, which was to be the trial of Adam's obedience. 637. Would not admit ;] Admit is used in the Latin fenfe, as inTerence, Heaut. V. II. 3. Quid ego tantum fceleris admifi mifer? What great wickedness have I committed? 637.-thine and of all thy fons &c.] And he very properly clofes his dif- In te omnis domus inclinata recumcourfe with thofe moral inftructions, bit. Virg. En, XII. 59. H 3 644 whoan |