John Milton

This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.

Accustom

We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.

Achieve

Thou hast achieved our liberty.

acknowledge

They his gifts acknowledged none.

Adamant

Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.

Add

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

Adjudge

Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.

Admonish

I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy.

Adventure

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.

Adventurous

Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.

Advise

Advise if this be worth attempting.

Affect

As might affect the earth with cold heat.

Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty.

Affirm

Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth.

Afflict

That which was the worst now least afflicts me.

Affright

A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

Affront

I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront.

Agape

Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape.

Age

Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness.

Agedness

Custom without truth is but agedness of error.

Aim

Each at the head leveled his deadly aim.

Alchemy

Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy.

Alienate

O alienate from God.

All

Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee, Forever.

Allegiance

So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . . Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.

Alley

I know each lane and every alley green.

Alliteration

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness.

Allure

The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye.

Allurement

Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell.

Aloof

Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands.

Alp

Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp.

Alteration

Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me.

Always

Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts.

Amain

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.

Amaryllis

To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.

Amate

The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true.

Amazement

His words impression left Of much amazement.

Ambiguous

What have been thy answers? What but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding?

Ambition

[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.

ambrosia

His dewy locks distilled ambrosia.

Ambush

Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep.

Amerce

Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven.

Among

They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees.

Ancient

Witness those ancient empires of the earth.

And

At least to try and teach the erring soul.

Angel

O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings.

Angle

To search the tenderest angles of the heart.

Annul

Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled.

Answer

So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.

Answerable

This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians.

Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain.

Antagonist

Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King.

Antagony

Antagony that is between Christ and Belial.

Anticipate

Good with bad Expect to hear; supernal grace contending With sinfulness of men.

Antinomy

As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute.

Anxious

The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.

Apart

Others apart sat on a hill retired.

Apostate

So spake the apostate angel.

Apparent

The moon . . . apparent queen.

Appear

Of their vain contest appeared no end.

Appearance

And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report.

Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?

Apply

Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied.

Appoint

Appoint not heavenly disposition.

Apprehensive

Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.

Approve

Wouldst thou approve thy constancy? Approve First thy obedience.

Aptitude

That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman.

Arbitrator

Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure.

Arboret

Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank.

Arborous

From under shady, arborous roof.

Arc

Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs.

Architect

The architects of their own happiness.

Aread

But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt!

Argue

I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Argument

[Shields] with boastful argument portrayed.

Arise

The doubts that in his heart arose.

Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask.

Armory

Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears.

Arms

He lays down his arms, but not his wiles.

Arrive

If at great things thou wouldst arrive.

Ere he arrive the happy isle.

Arrowy

How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers.

Ascent

To him with swift ascent he up returned.

Ashes

Their martyred blood and ashes sow.

Asleep

By whispering winds soon lulled asleep.

Asphodel

Pansies, and violets, and asphodel.

Assassinate

Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.

Assault

Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound.

Assay

I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.

Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed.

Assemble

Thither he assembled all his train.

Assert

That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Assessor

Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began.

Assiduous

To weary him with my assiduous cries.

Assist

With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end.

Associate

While I descend . . . to my associate powers.

Assure

His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live.

Astonishment

Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

Astound

These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind.

Atlantean

With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies.

Atlantic

The seven Atlantic sisters.

Attempt

By his blindness maimed for high attempts.

Attendance

If your stray attendance by yet lodged.

Attendant

Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord.

Attire

Earth in her rich attire.

Attract

Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

Audacious

As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious.

Audience

Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend.

Fit audience find, though few.

Audit

He appeals to a high audit.

Augment

But their spite still serves His glory to augment.

Auricular

This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular.

Austerity

The austerity of John the Baptist.

Authentic

To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.

Author

Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.

Autumnal

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.

Avail

O, what avails me now that honor high !

Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names.

Avenge

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.

Avoid

What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ?

Avow

Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test.

Await

Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.

O Eve, some farther change awaits us night.

Awake

Before whom awake I stood.

Awful

Heaven's awful Monarch.

Awry

Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air.

Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved.

Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men.

Axle

Had from her axle torn The steadfast earth.

Aye

For his mercies aye endure.

Azure

Not like those steps On heaven's azure.

Azurn

Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green.

Back

[The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds.

Bait

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Baleful

Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams.

Bandit

No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.

Bane

The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.

Banquet

Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer.

Barb

But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.

Barbarism

A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage.

Barbarize

The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.

Bare

Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !

Bask

Basks at the fire his hairy strength.

Beat

A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms.

Become

That error now which is become my crime.

Bed

So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.

Beef

A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.

Befall

I have revealed . . . the discord which befell.

Befit

That name best befits thee.

Before

His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire.

The world was all before them where to choose.

Beforehand

Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger.

Beget

Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget.

Behoof

No mean recompense it brings To your behoof.

Belch

Within the gates that now Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame.

Believe

Our conqueror (whom I now Of force believe almighty).

Bellycheer

A pack of clergymen [assembled] by themselves to bellycheer in their presumptuous Sion.

Below

They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were.

Bend

The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend.

To whom our vows and wished bend.

Benediction

So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction.

benight

Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods.

Benign

Creator bounteous and benign.

Beseech

But Eve . . . besought his peace.

Best

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.

Had we best retire? I see a storm.

Bestial

Among the bestial herds to range.

Bestick

Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts.

Bestir

Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.

Betake

The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them.

Whither shall I betake me, where subsist?

Bethink

The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover.

Betide

What will betide the few ?

Betime

To measure life learn thou betimes.

Betoken

A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.

Better

Could make the worse appear The better reason.

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

Betwixt

From betwixt two aged oaks.

Beware

To wish them beware the son.

Bide

All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.

Bind

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.

Birthnight

The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy birthnight, that sung thee Savior born.

Bituminous

Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed.

Blain

Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss.

Blandish

Mustering all her wiles, With blandished parleys.

Blandishment

Cowering low with blandishment.

Blank

To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.

Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.

Blaspheme

So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

Blasphemous

Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous.

Blaze

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

Blear

Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.

Bless

To bless the doors from nightly harm.

Blessed

O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.

Cast out from God and blessed vision.

Blessing

Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed.

Bliss

An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is.

Blithe

A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.

Block

A city . . . besieged and blocked about.

Bloom

A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom.

Blow

How blows the citron grove.

The odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue.

There let the pealing organ blow.

Off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore.

Blush

To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn.

Bluster

And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round.

To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore.

Board

Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand.

Boast

Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds.

Body

By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire.

Boisterous

The brute and boisterous force of violent men.

Bold

Throngs of knights and barons bold.

Bolt

I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.

His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.

Book

A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Boon

Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.

Boorish

Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion.

Borrow

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Botch

Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.

Both

This said, they both betook them several ways.

To judge both quick and dead.

Bound

Where full measure only bounds excess.

Bout

In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Bow

We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness.

Brag

Beauty is Nature's brag.

Braid

Braid your locks with rosy twine.

Branching

Shaded with branching palm.

Brand

Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand.

Bravery

Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim.

Breast

Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest.

Breed

Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

Brew

Hence with thy brewed enchantments, foul deceiver!

Bridge

Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined.

Brief

Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief.

Brigandine

Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass.

Bright

Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.

Brood

Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.

Brother

For of whom such massacre Make they but of their brethren, men of men?

Brow

To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow.

He told them with a masterly brow.

Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade.

Brush

Brushed with the kiss of rustling wings.

And from the boughts brush off the evil dew.

Brute

A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason.

Budge

Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.

Build

Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers.

Bull

And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic.

Bullish

Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish.

Bur

Amongst rude burs and thistles.

Burdensome

The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome.

Burn

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Burst

From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young.

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

Bury

And all their confidence Under the weight of mountains buried deep.

Bushy

Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood.

But

Observe but how their own principles combat one another.

Buxom

A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair.

By

By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both.

Cadence

Now was the sun in western cadence low.

Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched.

Call

I rose as at thy call, but found thee not.

Can

The will of Him who all things can.

Capital

Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain.

To put to death a capital offender.

Captive

Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains.

A poor, miserable, captive thrall.

Car

The gilded car of day.

Care

Him thy care must be to find.

Careful

The careful plowman doubting stands.

Carol

The Shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness.

Cataphract

Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears.

Causeway

The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate.

Cease

But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace.

Cerberean

With wide Cerberean mouth.

Ceremony

[The heralds] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council.

Certain

However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom.

Chain

Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm.

Champaign

Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined.

Chance

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Chaplainship

The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship.

Character

The character or that dominion.

Charm

With charm of earliest birds.

The charm of beauty's powerful glance.

They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.

Charming

How charming is divine philosophy.

Chaste

Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.

Chastity

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her.

Checkered

Dancing in the checkered shade.

Cheerishness

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness.

Chiefly

Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge.

Chill

Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.

Chime

Instruments that made melodius chime.

Chimney

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

Choice

The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound.

Chorus

What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic.

Cimmerian

In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.

Circlet

Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet.

Circuit

A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.

Circumference

His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon.

Circumfuse

His army circumfused on either wing.

Circumspection

With silent circumspection, unespied.

Citation

This horse load of citations and fathers.

Cite

The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten.

Clamor

The people with a shout Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise.

Clear

Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents.

Now clear I understand What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain.

Cling

A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.

Cloister

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale.

Close

League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That I with you must dwell, or you with me.

Clothe

Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb.

Clothing

From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing.

Clotted

When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion.

Cloud

Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.

Cluster

As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters.

Coat

Let each His adamantine coat gird well.

Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.

Coeternal

Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam.

Cohort

With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim.

Collection

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

Colure

Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure.

Combat

To combat with a blind man I disdain.

And combated in silence all these reasons.

Combine

So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined.

Combust

Planets that are oft combust.

Comeliness

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit.

Comely

Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before.

Comfortless

When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly.

Command

Far and wide his eye commands.

Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose.

Commit

Committing short and long [quantities].

Commodiously

To pass commodiously this life.

Commonwealth

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Compact

A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor.

Companion

The companions of his fall.

Company

Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish.

Compare

The place he found beyond expression bright, Compared with aught on earth.

To compare great things with small.

His mighty champion, strong beyond compare.

Compass

With terrors and with clamors compassed round.

Compeer

And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.

Complain

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!

Complete

Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence.

Complexion

If his complexion incline him to melancholy.

Compliable

Another compliable mind.

Compliment

Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Comply

Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or forbidden in our law.

Compose

Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb.

How in safety best we may Compose our present evils.

Compulsion

With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low.

Compute

Two days, as we compute the days of heaven.

Concave

Up to the fiery concave towering hight.

Conceit

Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.

Concent

That undisturbed song of pure concent.

Concenter

In thee concentering all their precious beams.

Concerning

To mix with thy concernments I desist.

Concord

Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Condemn

Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.

Condense

In what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.

Condescend

Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands?

Condole

I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance.

Conduct

I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.

Cone

Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault.

Confer

The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me.

Confess

And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg.

Confidence

But confidence then bore thee on secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial.

Confine

Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven.

And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world.

Confirm

Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.

Conflux

To the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in.

Confound

So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say.

Confoundedness

Their witty descant of my confoundedness.

Confuse

A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.

Confute

Satan stood . . . confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing fallacious drift.

Conglobe

Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like.

Congratulant

With like joy Congratulant approached him.

Congregate

The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.

Conjector

A great conjector at other men by their writings.

Conjecture

Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.

Conjure

Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest.

Connatural

And mix with our connatural dust.

Connubial

Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused.

Conquer

By winning words to conquer hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

Conscious

With conscious terrors vex me round.

Consequence

Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence.

Such fatal consequence unites us three.

Consider

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible.

Considerate

Of dauntless courage and considerate pride.

Consist

For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Consistence

The church of God, as meaning the whole consistence of orders and members.

Consistorian

You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians.

Consistory

To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory.

Consolation

Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed.

Consort

He with his consorted Eve.

Conspicuous

It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far.

Consultation

Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.

Contagion

When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion.

Contain

What thy stores contain bring forth.

Contemn

Thy pompous delicacies I contemn.

Contemplate

To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton.

Contemplation

In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.

Continue

Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire.

A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frail world.

Contradiction

can he make deathless death? That were to make Strange contradiction.

Contrary

Fame, if not double-faced, is double mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds.

Contrite

Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.

Controversal

The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces.

Conversion

He oft Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached Conversion and repentance, as to souls In prison under judgments imminent.

Convert

That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy.

Convict

Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.

Conviction

For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.

Convincement

The fear of a convincement.

Convolve

Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved.

Convulsion

Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came.

Cool

Fanned with cool winds.

Copartner

the associates and copartners of our loss.

Copious

Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song.

Cordial

A rib with cordial spirits warm.

He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored.

Behold this cordial julep here That flames and dances in his crystal bounds.

Corn

In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn.

Corny

Up stood the cornu reed.

Coronal

The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon.

Corporal

Pillories and other corporal infections.

Corporeal

His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.

Cost

To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.

I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils.

Cote

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes.

Couch

A well-couched invective.

Council

Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council called by night.

Councilist

I will in three months be an expert counsilist.

Counsel

They who counsel war.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth.

Countenance

So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance.

Error supports custom, custom countenances error.

Counterpoise

The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In counterpoise.

Countersway

A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance.

Country

Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account

Couple

Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league.

Course

Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course.

Courtesy

And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended.

Cover

And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throne.

In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame.

Cowardice

The cowardice of doing wrong.

Crabbed

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.

Cram

Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.

Crank

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.

Craze

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels.

Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.

Creature

On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

Credulous

Eve, our credulous mother.

Creed

That part which is so creeded by the people.

Creep

Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.

Crescent

Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.

Cresset

Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus.

Crew

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?

Cringe

Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch?

Crisp

Along the crisped shades and bowers.

The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.

Crop

Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil.

Cross

Nailed to the cross By his own nation.

Crown

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

Crowned

With surpassing glory crowned.

Crude

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

The originals of Nature in their crude Conception.

Cruel

Cruel wars, wasting the earth.

Crumble

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews.

Culminate

As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator.

Cumbrance

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare.

Cup

Thence from cups to civil broils.

Curb

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

Curl

Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.

Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMegæra.

Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played.

Curse

All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse.

Cursed

Let us fly this cursed place.

Curtain

So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red.

Curtal

Essays and curtal aphorisms.

Custody

What pease will be given To us enslaved, but custody severe, And stripes and arbitrary punishment?

Cut

Loopholes cut through thickest shade.

Cynosure

Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

Dagon

This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol.

Daily

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.

Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere.

Dainty

These delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, Walks and the melody of birds.

Those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy.

Damask

On the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers.

Damnify

This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified.

Damp

Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.

All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp.

Dangerous

If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods.

Dank

Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.

Dapper

He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man.

Dark

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Left him at large to his own dark designs.

Darken

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill.

Darkling

As the wakeful bird Sings darkling.

Darkness

Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds.

Dash

To perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

day-star

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

Dazzle

Those heavenly shapes Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze Insufferably bright.

Debar

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labor, as to debar us when we need Refreshment.

Debate

Statutes and edicts concerning this debate.

Debatement

A serious question and debatement with myself.

Deceit

Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.

Deceivable

The fraud of deceivable traditions.

Blind, and thereby deceivable.

Deceive

What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart?

Decency

Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.

decent

Before his decent steps.

A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn.

Deck

To deck with clouds the uncolored sky.

Declare

This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son.

Decree

Father eternal! thine is to decree; Mine, both in heaven and earth to do thy will.

Deed

To be, both will and deed, created free.

Deep

Shadowing squadrons deep.

Speculations high or deep.

The bass of heaven's deep organ.

Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself.

The hollow deep of hell resounded.

Default

What they have defaulted towards him as no king.

Defend

Leave not the faithful side That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects.

Defer

God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name.

Deficience

Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee Is no deficience found.

deflower

If a man had deflowered a virgin.

Deform

Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyed behold?

Deformity

Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.

defy

I once again Defy thee to the trial of mortal fight.

Degenerate

A degenerate and degraded state.

Degrade

O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!

Deity

To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt.

Dejection

What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring.

Delay

Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.

Delectable

Delectable both to behold and taste.

Delicacy

What choice to choose for delicacy best.

And to those dainty limbs which Nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy?

Delicious

Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury.

Delight

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight.

Deliver

Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver.

Deluge

A fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.

Demean

[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.

Demeanor

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man.

Demogorgon

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon.

Demur

The latter I demur, for in their looks Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.

Demure

Sober, steadfast, and demure.

Denounce

Denouncing wrath to come.

His look denounced desperate.

Depart

Ere thou from hence depart.

Departure

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure.

Departure from this happy place.

Deplore

To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss.

Deprecation

Humble deprecation.

Deride

Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides.

Derision

Satan beheld their plight, And to his mates thus in derision called.

Descant

She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung.

Descend

[He] with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended.

Descent

If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe.

Descry

And now their way to earth they had descried.

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Desire

Unspeakable desire to see and know.

Desist

Desist (thou art discern'd, And toil'st in vain).

Despair

I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.

Despite

A despite done against the Most High.

Despoil

Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.

Destine

We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe.

Destroy

If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, By some false guile pervert.

Detriment

I can repair That detriment, if such it be.

Dewy

A dewy mist Went and watered all the ground.

Diagonial

Sin can have no tenure by law at all, but is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere.

Diapason

The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason.

Difference

Kings, in receiving justice and undergoing trial, are not differenced from the meanest subject.

Diffuse

Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite.

A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things.

Dight

The clouds in thousand liveries dight.

Diminish

O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.

Ding

To ding the book a coit's distance from him.

Dip

A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er.

Dire

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.

Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire.

disability

Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.

Disable

And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me.

Disallow

That the edicts of Cæsar we may at all times disallow, but the statutes of God for no reason we may reject.

Disastrous

The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.

Disband

And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded.

Discharge

Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see.

Too secure of our discharge From penalty.

Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge.

Discomfit

Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him.

Disconformity

Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves.

Discountenance

How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised!

Discover

Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world.

Discursive

Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive.

Disengage

To disengage him and the kingdom, great sums were to be borrowed.

Disesteem

Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs.

Disexercise

By disexercising and blunting our abilities.

Disfigure

Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.

Disglorify

Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

Disgorge

See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea.

Dishonor

Nothing . . . that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.

Disinherit

And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here.

Disinure

We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge.

Disjoin

That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins.

Dislodge

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns.

Disoblige

Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause.

Disparage

Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.

Dispatch

To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.

Dispel

[Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears.

Dispeople

A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers.

Displeasure

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure.

Displode

In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.

Disposal

The execution leave to high disposal.

Dispreader

Dispreaders both of vice and error.

Dispute

The rest I reserve it be disputed how the magistrate is to do herein.

Addicted more To contemplation and profound dispute.

Disquietous

So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men.

Dissolution

We expected Immediate dissolution.

Dissonance

Filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

Dissuade

War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades.

Distance

On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.

Distaste

On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.

Distasteful

Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions.

Distend

But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased?

Distinct

Wherever thus created -- for no place Is yet distinct by name.

Relation more particular and distinct.

Distract

Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts.

Disturb

And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim.

Disunite

Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise . . . of all posterity!

Dittied

Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song.

Divert

That crude apple that diverted Eve.

Divider

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider.

Divine

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him.

Divulge

God . . . marks The just man, and divulges him through heaven.

Which would not be To them [animals] made common and divulged.

do

Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned.

Dodge

Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity.

Doleful

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades.

Domination

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

Dotage

The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.

Doubtful

With doubtful feet and wavering resolution.

We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight.

Dough-kneaded

He demeans himself . . . like a dough-kneaded thing.

Downward

And downward fell into a groveling swine.

Dram

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.

Drama

A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon.

Drop

With minute drops from off the eaves.

Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.

Drouth

One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream.

Drug

Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs.

Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.

Duck

Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod.

Due

The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep.

Dulcet

She tempers dulcet creams.

Dusk

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

Dwelling

God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men.

Each

Let each His adamantine coat gird well.

I know each lane and every alley green.

Earn

The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.

Earth

In heaven, or earth, or under earth, in hell.

Earthborn

Some earthborn giant.

Earthly

This earthly load Of death, called life.

Ease

Eased [from] the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear.

East

The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

Eat

With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat.

Eavesdrop

To eavesdrop in disguises.

Echo

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell.

Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch.

Eclipse

That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.

While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms.

Ecstasy

He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy.

Edge

In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle.

Effect

Shun the bitter consequence, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.

Effluence

Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

Effulgence

The effulgence of his glory abides.

Effuse

With gushing blood effused.

Egregious

His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected.

Egress

Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

Either

His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played.

Element

Of elements The grosser feeds the purer: Earth the Sea; Earth and the Sea feed Air; the Air those Fires Ethereal.

Elocution

[Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise.

Embalm

With fresh dews embalmed the earth.

Emblaze

The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed.

Emboss

Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.

In the Arabian woods embossed.

Emergent

The mountains huge appear emergent.

Empire

Over hell extend His empire, and with iron scepter rule.

Emprise

I love thy courage yet and bolt emprise; But here thy sword can do thee little stead.

Empyrean

The empyrean rung With hallelujahs.

Enamel

Oft he [the serpent]bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck.

Encounter

To join their dark encounter in mid-air.

Endamage

The trial hath endamaged thee no way.

Enforce

A petty enterprise of small enforce.

Engagement

Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league.

Enginery

Training his devilish enginery.

English

Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation.

Enjoin

High matter thou enjoin'st me.

Enmity

No ground of enmity between us known.

Enormous

Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait.

Enroll

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.

Enslave

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Enter

I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent.

No evil thing approach nor enter in.

Entire

With strength entire and free will armed.

Entitle

The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself.

Envenom

Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe.

Envy

No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more.

Epanodos

O more exceeding love, or law more just? Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love!

Episcopate

Feeding the flock episcopating.

Epitaphial

The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech.

Equal

Nor think it equal to answer deliberate reason with sudden heat and noise.

Equinoctial

Thrice the equinoctial line He circled.

Erect

Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.

Erelong

The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep.

Essence

And uncompounded is their essence pure.

As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish.

Esteem

We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force.

Eternize

This other [gift] served but to eternize woe.

Ethereal

Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger.

Ethereous

This ethereous mold whereon we stand.

Ethnic

No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs.

euphrasy

Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.

Evade

Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove.

evangelize

His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations.

evasion

Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more.

Evening

In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.

Evidence

O glorious trial of exceeding love Illustrious evidence, example high.

Evident

And in our faces evident the signs Of foul concupiscence.

Evil

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.

Evince

Error by his own arms is best evinced.

Exaltation

Wondering at my flight, and change To this high exaltation.

Exalted

Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind.

Example

I gave, thou sayest, the example; I led the way.

Excel

She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.

Excellence

Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence.

Excellent

To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair.

Except

Who never touched The excepted tree.

God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned.

Exceptive

A particular and exceptive law.

Excess

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame.

Exclude

And none but such, from mercy I exclude.

Exclusion

His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss.

Excommunion

Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature.

Excursion

Far on excursion toward the gates of hell.

Excuse

Hence with denial vain and coy excuse.

Execute

Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day?

Exempt

Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay.

Exercise

Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth.

Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end.

Exhalation

Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake.

Exorbitant

Foul exorbitant desires.

Expand

Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.

Expanse

Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven.

Expectation

Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman.

Expedite

To expedite your glorious march.

Experiment

Adam, by sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find.

Expiate

To expiate his treason, hath naught left.

Expiation

Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats.

Explode

Him old and young Exploded, and seized with violent hands.

Express

Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods.

Expulse

If charity be thus excluded and expulsed.

Extenuate

Who can extenuate thee?

Exterior

Without exterior help sustained.

External

Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.

Extinct

Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct.

Extract

The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

Extraction

They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Extraordinary

Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.

Extremity

Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view.

Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament.

Eye

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength.

Eyrie

The eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build.

Fable

The hell thou fablest.

Fabric

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation.

Face

To set a face upon their own malignant design.

He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.

Facile

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.

Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me.

Fact

He who most excels in fact of arms.

Faculty

But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief.

Fadge

They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together.

Fail

When earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.

Our envious foe hath failed.

Which ofttimes may succeed, so as perhaps Shall grieve him, if I fail not.

Though that seat of earthly bliss be failed.

Fair-world

They think it was never fair-world with them since.

Fairy

No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity.

Faith

Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal.

Faithful

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Fall

Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves.

Fallacy

Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised.

False

I to myself was false, ere thou to me.

Falsehood

No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

Falter

With faltering speech and visage incomposed.

Fame

The field where thou art famed To have wrought such wonders.

Those Hesperian gardens famed of old.

Famish

And famish him of breath, if not of bread.

Fan

The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes.

Fancy

In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds.

Fangle

To control and new fangle the Scripture.

Fantasy

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory.

Fare

So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.

So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

Farewell

So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear.

Fast

Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.

He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by.

Fate

Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate.

Father

Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye.

Fathomless

The fathomless absurdity.

Faulty

Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since.

Faun

Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan.

favor

All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor.

Favorite

Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares.

Fawn

Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.

Fear

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.

Feature

It is for homely features to keep home.

So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air.

Feed

For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain never had I found.

Feeling

Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?

Fellow

The fellows of his crime.

Fellowship

Fellowship in pain divides not smart.

Felonious

O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?

Feminine

Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.

Fence

Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzing fence.

To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

Fennel

Smell of sweetest fennel.

Ferment

But finding no redress, ferment and rage.

Ferry

They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro.

It can pass the ferry backward into light.

Fertile

Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches.

Fervent

So spake the fervent angel.

Fervid

The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays.

Fescue

To come under the fescue of an imprimatur.

Fester

Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.

Festi-val

The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.

Fetch

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.

Fetter

My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.

Feverish

Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being.

Feverous

All maladies . . . all feverous kinds.

Field

What though the field be lost?

fiend

Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while.

Fierce

His fierce thunder drove us to the deep.

The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear.

Fight

To fight with thee no man of arms will deign.

Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.

Filial

And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke.

Final

Yet despair not of his final pardon.

Finally

Whom patience finally must crown.

Finding

When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage.

Finesse

This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery.

Finish

And heroically hath finished A life heroic.

Finisher

O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope!

Fire

As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.

Firm

Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion.

By one man's firm obediency fully tried.

First

See, Father, what first fruits on earth are sprung From thy implanted grace in man!

Fit

Fit audience find, though few.

Fix

And fix far deeper in his head their stings.

Flail

His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn.

Flamen

Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

Flank

When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired.

Flaring

His [the sun's] flaring beams.

Flash

The chariot of paternal Deity, Flashing thick flames.

Flashy

Lean and flashy songs.

Flat

Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.

What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!

I feel . . . my hopes all flat.

Flatter

If it may stand him more in stead to lie, Say and unsay, feign, flatter, or adjure.

Flaw

Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw.

Fledge

His shoulders, fledge with wings.

Fleece

Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece.

fleet

All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither.

In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.

Fleshly

Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms.

Flight

Swift flights of angels ministrant.

Fling

The sun begins to fling His flaring beams.

And crop-full, out of doors he flings.

Float

The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground.

Flood

A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood.

Flow

Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions.

Flower

Observations which have flowered off.

Flown

Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Flush

In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.

Fly

Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race.

Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.

Fold

Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.

The star that bids the shepherd fold.

Follow

Approve the best, and follow what I approve.

Foment

Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm.

Fool

Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools.

Can they think me . . . their fool or jester?

Foot

And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet.

Forage

One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.

Forbearance

He soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.

Forbiddance

How hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance.

Forbidden

I know no spells, use no forbidden arts.

Force

Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of despair.

I should have forced thee soon wish other arms.

Ford

His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted.

Forecast

If it happen as I did forecast.

Forego

All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.

Forehead

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

Foreign

Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed.

Foreknowledge

If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.

Forelock

On occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Foresight

This seems an unseasonable foresight.

Forestall

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?

Forfeit

Once more I will renew His lapsèd powers, though forfeite.

Forgery

Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear.

Form

And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.

Formality

It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality.

Fortitude

Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.

Foul

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Found

There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose.

Foundation

Against the canon laws of our foundation.

Fountain

Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible.

Fountainless

Barren desert, fountainless and dry.

Fragrance

Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance.

Fragrant

Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers.

Frame

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame.

Framework

A staunch and solid piece of framework.

Fraternal

An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war.

Fraud

To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud.

Fraudulent

He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began.

Free

Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.

Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.

Freedom

Made captive, yet deserving freedom more.

I emboldened spake and freedom used.

Freely

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

Freely we serve Because we freely love.

Frequent

With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

Frieze

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.

Frolic

The frolic wind that breathes the spring.

Frore

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Frounce

Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont.

Frugal

I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.

Fruitage

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear.

Fruitful

[Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful.

Fruitless

They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours.

Frustrate

Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine ?

Fry

To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.

Fulfill

Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.

Fume

Where the golden altar fumed.

Fury

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

Gabble

Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders.

Gain

To gain dominion, or to keep it gained.

Gale

And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings.

Gay

A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress!

Gaze

And gazed a while the ample sky.

With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.

Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.

Gehenna

The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.

Genial

So much I feel my genial spirits droop.

Genius

The unseen genius of the wood.

Gentle

The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time.

Gesture

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

Ghastly

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Giant

Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.

Giantship

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen.

Gift

Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command ?

Gird

That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.

The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.

Glad

He, glad of her attention gained.

Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.

Glance

Swift as the lightning glance.

On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.

Glare

Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

Gleam

At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps.

Glebe

Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine.

Glimpse

LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.

Globe

Him round A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed.

Glorious

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good !

Gloze

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.

Gluttony

Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts.

Gnash

There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame.

Goal

Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels.

Goblin

To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied.

God

The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down To bestial gods.

Godhead

The imperial throne Of Godhead, fixed for ever.

Gonfalon

Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air.

Good

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.

They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

Goodly

The goodliest man of men since born.

Goosery

The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

Gorgonian

The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.

Govern

Govern well thy appetite.

Government

That free government which we have so dearly purchased, free commonwealth.

Grace

To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.

Gradual

Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.

Grain

I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved.

All in a robe of darkest grain.

Grand

What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator.

Grandeur

Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.

Grant

Wherefore did God grant me my request.

Grate

On their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

Grateful

A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays.

Gratitude

The debt immense of endless gratitude.

Grave

A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity.

Green

O'er the smooth enameled green.

Grievance

The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked.

Grim

The ridges of grim war.

Grin

Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.

Grind

Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind.

Gross

A gross body of horse under the Duke.

Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

ground

From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground.

Growth

Nature multiplies her fertile growth.

Grudge

Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling against the grudges of more dreaded calamities.

Guess

We may then guess how far it was from his design.

This is the place, as well as I may guess.

Guile

To wage by force or guile eternal war.

Guilt

Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin.

Guiltless

Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed.

Gulf

He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between.

Gummy

Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine.

Gurge

The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground.

Gust

Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

Guzzle

Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

Gymnic

Have they not swordplayers, and every sort Of gymnic artists, wrestlers, riders, runners?

Habit

He who reigns . . . upheld by old repute, Consent, or custom

Hail

Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky.

And such a son as all men hailed me happy.

The angel hail bestowed.

Hairy

His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge.

Hale

Easier both to freight, and to hale ashore.

Half

Not half his riches known, and yet despised.

Half-moon

See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Halleluiah

So sung they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs.

Halloo

List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air.

Hallow

His secret altar touched with hallowed fire.

Hamstring

So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.

Hand

The Protestants were then on the winning hand.

Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the government of Britain.

Handed

Into their inmost bower, Handed they went.

Handle

About his altar, handling holy things.

Handy

To draw up and come to handy strokes.

Hang

Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head.

To decide which way hung the victory.

A noble stroke he lifted high, Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan.

Happiness

Others in virtue place felicity, But virtue joined with riches and long life; In corporal pleasures he, and careless ease.

Harangue

Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard.

Harden

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim.

Hardly

The House of Peers gave so hardly their consent.

Harm

No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.

Harmony

Ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelic harmonies.

Harpy

Both table and provisions vanished quite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.

Hart

Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind.

Hasty

The hasty multitude Admiring entered.

Haughty

Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering.

Havoc

To waste and havoc yonder world.

Haycock

The tanned haycock in the mead.

Hazardous

To enterprise so hazardous and high!

Head

Your head I him appoint.

Hear

So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not.

Heart

Eve, recovering heart, replied.

Heat

Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!

Heath

Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.

Heaven

The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.

Heavenly

Out heavenly guided soul shall climb.

Hedge

Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north.

Hedgerow

By hedgerow elms and hillocks green.

Heed

With wanton heed and giddy cunning.

Heinous

How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt!

Helmed

The helmed cherubim Are seen in glittering ranks.

Helpless

Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.

Hence

Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

Henceforth

I never from thy side henceforth to stray.

Herb

And flocks Grazing the tender herb.

Hesperus

The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus.

Hidden

My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.

By what best way, Whether of open war, or covert guile, We now debate.

Hierarchy

Standards and gonfalons . . . for distinction serve Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees.

Hinge

The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning.

Nor slept the winds . . . but rushed abroad.

Hiss

A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.

But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue.

Hit

Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight.

Hold

We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or empire.

Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course.

While our obedience holds.

Holiday

And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

Homage

Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven.

Honor

Godlike erect, with native honor clad.

Hope

He wished, but not with hope.

Horizon

All the horizon round Invested with bright rays.

Horn

Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx.

Horrent

With bright emblazonry and horrent arms.

Horrible

A dungeon horrible on all sides round.

Horror

How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?

Hover

Agricola having sent his navy to hover on the coast.

Hucksterage

Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes.

Humid

Evening cloud, or humid bow.

Hurt

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt.

Hydra

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

Hyperbaton

With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text.

Icy-pearled

Mounting up in icy-pearled car.

Idea

Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea.

Idle

Down their idle weapons dropped.

The idle spear and shield were high uphing.

Idolatry

His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.

Ignominious

Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious.

Illusion

To cheat the eye with blear illusions.

Illustrate

To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.

Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates.

Imagine

My sister is not so defenseless left As you imagine.

Imbathe

And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel.

Imbody

The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes.

Imbosom

The Father infinite, By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son.

Imbrue

While Darwen stream, will blood of Scots imbrued.

Imbrute

And mixed with bestial slime, THis essence to incarnate and imbrute.

The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

Imbue

Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.

Immanacle

Although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled.

Immeasurable

Of depth immeasurable.

Immediate

Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke.

Immense

O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!

Imminent

Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters.

Fierce faces threatening war.

Immorality

Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them.

Immovable

Immovable, infixed, and frozen round.

Immure

This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round.

Immutable

Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal King.

Impale

Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire.

Impearl

Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

Impendent

Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall.

Impenetrable

Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight.

Imperfect

Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created.

Impervious

This gulf impassable, impervious.

Impetuous

The people, on their holidays, Impetuous, insolent, unquenchable.

Implacable

I see thou art implacable.

Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan.

Implant

Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding.

Importunity

O'ercome with importunity and tears.

Impose

Death is the penalty imposed.

Impotence

O, impotence of mind in body strong!

Impregn

His pernicious words, impregned With reason.

Impress

To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint.

Impression

Portentous blaze of comets and impressions in the air.

His words impression left.

Which must be read with an impression.

Improbable

He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover.

Impurple

Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled.

Impute

They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.

Inbreed

To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.

Incarnate

Here shalt thou sit incarnate.

This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired.

Incentive

Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.

Incident

All chances incident to man's frail life.

Inclement

Teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!

Inclose

How many evils have inclosed me round!

Include

The whole included race, his purposed prey.

Incomplete

A most imperfect and incomplete divine.

Incomprehensible

And all her numbered stars that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible.

Incontinence

From the rash hand of bold incontinence.

Incorporeal

Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced their shapes immense.

Incorruptly

To demean themselves incorruptly.

Increate

Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

Incursion

The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana.

Indebted

By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged.

Indefatigable

Upborne with indefatigable wings.

Indissolubly

On they move, indissolubly firm.

Individual

United as one individual soul.

Indorse

Elephants indorsed with towers.

Inductive

A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

Inelegant

What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant.

Ineloquent

Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent.

Inevitably

Inevitably thou shalt die.

Inexpressible

In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood.

Infamous

Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds.

Infancy

The babe yet lies in smiling infancy.

Infant

This worthy motto, “No bishop, no king,” is . . . infanted out of the same fears.

Infect

Infected Ston's daughters with like heat.

Infinite

Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life.

Inflame

Though more, it seems, Inflamed with lust than rage.

Ingrateful

He gives . . . no ingrateful food.

Ingulf

A river large . . . Passed underneath ingulfed.

Inheritor

Born inheritors of the dignity.

Inject

Cæsar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

Injunction

For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction, not to taste that fruit.

Injury

Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage.

Inlay

But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story.

Crocus and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground.

Inmate

So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad.

Inner

This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part.

Innocence

Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence!

Innocent

The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey.

Innumerable

Innumerable as the stars of night.

Inquire

Having thus at length inquired the truth concerning law and dispense.

Inquisitional

All the inquisitional rigor . . . executed upon books.

Inquisitive

[We] curious are to hear, What happens new.

Inroad

With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne.

Insatiable

“Insatiable of glory.”

Insight

Quickest insight In all things that to greatest actions lead.

Insolence

Flown with insolence and wine.

Insolent

If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.

Inspection

With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature.

Insphere

Bright aërial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air.

installment

Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law.

Instance

I shall not instance an abstruse author.

Instill

How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands.

Instinct

The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes.

Insulsity

The insulsity of mortal tongues.

Insurrection

Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life.

Intellective

Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics.

Intellectual

Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?

Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun.

Intelligencing

That sad intelligencing tyrant.

Intelligent

Intelligent of seasons.

Intelligential

Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require.

Intemperance

Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks.

Intemperate

Most do taste through fond intemperate thirst.

Intercede

I to the lords will intercede, not doubting Their favorable ear.

Interchange

Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.

Intercourse

This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles.

Interdict

Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.

These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure.

Interfuse

The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth.

Intermission

Rest or intermission none I find.

Intermix

In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.

Interval

'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval.

interweave

Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven.

Words interwove with sighs found out their way.

Intestine

Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers.

Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.

Intoxicate

With new wine inoxicated both.

Intrench

His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched.

Intricacy

Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way.

Intuitive

Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive.

Invade

Such an enemy Is risen to invade us.

Inveigh

All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposed him.

Inveigle

Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the unwary sense.

Invent

Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.

Invincible

Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible.

Inviolable

For thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm.

Invisible

To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works.

Invite

To inveigle and invite the unwary sense.

Invocate

If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid.

Involve

Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds.

And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke.

He knows His end with mine involved.

Earth with hell To mingle and involve.

Invulnerable

Neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright arms.

Inward

Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat.

So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward.

Inweave

Down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold.

Inwreathe

Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams.

Inwrought

His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim.

Irksome

For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us.

Irregular

Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem.

Irrevoluble

The dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity.

Irriguous

The flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spreads her store.

Irruption

Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep.

Isle

Imperial rule of all the seagirt isles.

Iterate

Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared.

Ivy

Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.

Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere.

Jaculation

Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire.

Jail

This jail I count the house of liberty.

Jar

For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.

Jaunt

Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.

Jog

So hung his destiny, never to rot, While he might still jog on and keep his trot.

Joint

To tear thee joint by joint.

Jollity

All now was turned to jollity and game.

Journey

We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey.

Joust

Gorgeous knights at joust and tournament.

Joy

In whose sight all things joy.

Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.

Jubilant

While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.

Judaize

The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus.

Judge

Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right!

Judicature

Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce.

Judicial

Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.

Junket

How Faery Mab the junkets eat.

Jurisdiction

To live exempt From Heaven's high jurisdiction.

Justifiable

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men.

Justification

In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find Justification toward God, and peace Of conscience.

Justify

That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Keep

His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.

Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.

Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command.

Keeping

The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.

Killing

Nothing could be more killingly spoken.

Kindle

Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Kine

A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine.

Knee-deep

Grass knee-deep within a month.

Knot

Flowers worthy of paradise, which, not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.

Know

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Labor

God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive.

Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.

Labyrinth

The serpent . . . fast sleeping soon he found, In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled.

Lackey

A thousand liveried angels lackey her.

Laic

An unprincipled, unedified, and laic rabble.

Lament

Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.

Landskip

Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures.

Lank

Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head.

Lapsed

Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit.

Lar

The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

Large

We have yet large day.

Last

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.

Laureate

To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

Law

As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.

Lay

Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid.

Lead

In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. Content, though blind, had I no better guide.

Lean

Their lean and flashy songs.

Least

He who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonor.

Leaven

With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.

Leer

With jealous leer malign Eyed them askance.

Legitimate

To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice.

Lemures

The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

Levant

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Level

Ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement.

Liable

Proudly secure, yet liable to fall.

Liberal

Infinitely good, and of his good As liberal and free as infinite.

License

License they mean when they cry liberty.

Lictor

Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power.

Life

That which before us lies in daily life.

Light

On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.

Lightly

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly.

Lilied

By sandy Ladon's lilied banks.

Limbed

Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown.

Limbo

A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools.

Line

Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia.

Lineament

Man he seems In all his lineaments.

Linger

Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained.

List

Listed among the upper serving men.

Little

By sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can find.

Livelong

Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.

Lively

But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps ? Much livelier than erewhile He seems.

Livery

It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.

Lodge

Something holy lodges in that breast.

Lofty

Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Lonely

To the misled and lonely traveler.

Look

Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue.

Loose

With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.

Lord

Man over men He made not lord.

And lorded over them whom now they serve.

Lordly

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

Lore

His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore.

Lot

O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's Enough to bear.

Love

He on his side Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored.

Smit with the love of sacred song.

Lovelorn

The lovelorn nightingale.

Low

Why but to keep ye low and ignorant ?

Lull

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity.

Luminary

Where the great luminary . . . Dispenses light from far.

Lurry

To turn prayer into a kind of lurry.

Lust

The lust of reigning.

Lusty

Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home.

Mace

Death with his mace petrific . . . smote.

Machination

Devilish machinations come to naught.

Madding

The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged.

Madrigal

Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.

Magnanimous

To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to lay down Far more magnanimous than to assume.

Magnetic

As the magnetic hardest iron draws.

Magnificence

And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious.

Main

That which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring.

Maker

The universal Maker we may praise.

Mangle

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Manifest

Entertained with solitude, Where obvious duty erewhile appeared unsought.

Mantle

The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Mar

Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage.

marasmus

Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence.

Mask

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.

Massacre

Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable!

Mast

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Match

Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.

Mate

Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.

Matter

Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song.

And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.

No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.

Mean

According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly.

Meanly

While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Measure

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

Meet

O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined !

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

Memory

And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining.

Merriment

Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment.

Mess

At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes.

Messiah

And told them the Messiah now was born.

Midriff

Smote him into the midriff with a stone.

Midway

Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.

Militant

At which command the powers militant . . . Moved on in silence.

Mimic

Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her.

Misdeed

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.

Misdo

Afford me place to show what recompense Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone.

Misgive

Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved.

Mislead

To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler.

Miss

What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.

Missing

For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

Mission

How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high.

Misuse

The sweet poison of misused wine.

Mock

He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

Mode

A table richly spread in regal mode.

Mold

The etherial mold, Incapable of stain.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man?

Moment

Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will.

Monarch

He who reigns Monarch in heaven, . . . upheld by old repute.

Monarchal

Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised Above his fellows, with monarchal pride.

Monstrous

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

Morn

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.

Mortal

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful.

Most

Those nearest to this king, and most his favorites, were courtiers and prelates.

Motion

Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms.

Devoid of sense and motion.

In our proper motion we ascend.

Mountaineer

No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.

Mourn

The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Much

And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.

Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much.

Mummer

Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers.

Muster

See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Mute

All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence was in heaven.

All sat mute, Pondering the danger with deep thoughts.

Mutual

Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love.

Mysterious

God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms.

Mystic

Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body.

Naked

Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked.

Name

Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named.

Namely

The solitariness of man . . . God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage.

Narrow

But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.

Nativity

These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.

Nature

I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.

Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man among men on earth.

Navel

Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells.

Near

My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me.

Necessity

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

Need

Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest.

Negative

If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then . . . his negative is as good as nothing.

Neglect

This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.

Neither

Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent, Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.

nerve

he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm.

Nether

'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires.

All my nether shape thus grew transformed.

News

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Nice

And to taste Think not I shall be nice.

A nice and subtile happiness.

Niggard

A penurious niggard of his wealth.

Nigh

He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned.

None

Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.

Nook

How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook?

Note

The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.

Nothing

Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.

Numerous

Such and so numerous was their chivalry.

Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse.

Nuptial

Then, all in heat, They light the nuptial torch.

Nurse

Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.

Nursling

I was his nursling once, and choice delight.

Nurture

A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

Nuzzle

The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.

nymph

Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?

Obdure

This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured.

Obey

Was she the God, that her thou didst obey?

obligement

I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me.

Obnoxious

Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse.

Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things

Obsequy

I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train.

Observe

With solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will.

Obtain

His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven.

Obtrusive

Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired.

Obtund

They . . . have filled all our law books with the obtunding story of their suits and trials.

Obvious

To the evil turn My obvious breast.

Ode

O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.

Offerture

More offertures and advantages to his crown.

Office

Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth.

Officiate

Merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth.

Officious

Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious.

Old

Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old.

Omen

Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name.

Omnipresence

His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives.

Omniscient

For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient?

Open

Through the gate, Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed.

That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.

Opinion

This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises.

Opinioned

His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious.

Opportunity

Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs.

Opposition

Virtue which breaks through all opposition.

Oppress

Behold the kings of the earth; how they oppress Thy chosen!

Oppression

There gentle Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense.

Opprobrious

This dark, opprobrious den of shame.

Optic

The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.

Oracle

The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.

Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God.

God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will.

Orator

Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome.

Orb

Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.

In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb.

A drop serene hath quenched their orbs.

The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled.

Order

Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.

Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.

Oread

Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad.

Organic

Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously.

Orient

Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun.

Original

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness.

The Scriptures may be now read in their own original.

Orison

Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid.

Ornate

A graceful and ornate rhetoric.

Ought

To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.

Outshine

A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.

Overact

The hope of inheritance overacts them.

Overhead

While overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

Overlay

Framed of cedar overlaid with gold.

And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss.

Overpass

All the beauties of the East He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.

Overtop

If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order.

Overween

They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen.

Overwhelm

Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are fallen, All in a moment overwhelmed and fallen.

Pale

Speechless he stood and pale.

Palpable

Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.

Parable

Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.

Paradise

The earth Shall be all paradise.

Parasite

Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st.

Pardon

But infinite in pardon was my judge.

Parentage

Though men esteem thee low of parentage.

Parle

Finding himself too weak, began to parle.

They ended parle, and both addressed for fight.

Part

Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Powerful hands . . . will not part Easily from possession won with arms.

Participate

Mine may come when men With angels may participate.

Fit to participate all rational delight.

Particular

If the particulars of each person be considered.

Partner

My other self, the partner of my life.

Pass

On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent.

Father, thy word is passed.

Passive

The passive air Upbore their nimble tread.

Pathless

Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way.

Patroness

Night, best patroness of grief.

Pause

Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.

Pavement

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

Pavilion

The field pavilioned with his guardians bright.

Peal

There let the pealing organ blow.

Nor was his ear less pealed.

Pearl

And those pearls of dew she wears.

Pebble

As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

Peculiar

While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat.

Beauty, which, either walking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

Pedigree

His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.

Peel

But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.

Peep

From her cabined loophole peep.

Peer

A noble peer of mickle trust and power.

Peerage

When Charlemain with all his peerage fell.

Peerless

Unvailed her peerless light.

Pen

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

Penalty

Death is the penalty imposed.

Penetration

And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep.

Penitent

Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.

Pensioner

The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.

Pensive

The pensive secrecy of desert cell.

People

As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.

Perfect

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

Peril

Adventure hard With peril great achieved.

Perilous

Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds.

Period

So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period.

Perish

Grow up and perish, as the summer fly.

Permission

High permission of all-ruling Heaven.

Perpetual

Perpetual feast of nectared sweets.

Perplexity

By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more.

Perseverance

Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.

Persevere

Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright.

Person

To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright.

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.

Personate

In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous.

Peruse

Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed.

Perverse

The only righteous in a world perverse.

Pervert

He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.

Petrific

Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry.

Petty

Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.

Philosophy

Of good and evil much they argued then, . . . Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Phlegethon

Fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.

Phonography

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Piddling

The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes.

Piety

Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was judged to have shown.

Pile

The labor of an age in piled stones.

Pillar

By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire.

Pillow

Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.

With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast.

Pinnacle

Some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles around.

Pit

Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.

Pitch

Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep.

To lowest pitch of abject fortune.

Placable

Methought I saw him placable and mild.

Place

What place can be for us Within heaven's bound?

Plague

Thus were they plagued And worn with famine.

Plain

Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain.

Plat

This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.

Plate

Mangled . . . through plate and mail.

Platform

Church discipline is platformed in the Bible.

Play

Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies.

Please

What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.

What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.

Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties.

Plight

A plighted garment of divers colors.

Plot

And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

Pluck

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

Plume

Wings . . . of many a colored plume.

Ply

Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily).

Point

Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ?

Pole

Shoots against the dusky pole.

Poll

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.

Ponent

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Pontifical

Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss.

Pop

He popped a paper into his hand.

Populous

Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms.

Port

Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing.

Began to hem him round with ported spears.

Portal

Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone.

Portcullis

She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew.

Portray

Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed.

Possess

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed.

Possibly

Can we . . . possibly his love desert?

Post

Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.

And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

Potent

Moses once more his potent rod extends.

Potentate

Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones.

Pour

Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ?

Powder

A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.

Practice

They shall practice how to live secure.

Pragmatic

We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions.

Precise

For the hour precise Exacts our parting hence.

Predestination

Predestination had overruled their will.

Preface

Heaven's high behest no preface needs.

Prelatize

An episcopacy that began then to prelatize.

Preëminent

In goodness and in power preëminent.

Presage

If there be aught of presage in the mind.

Presbyter

New presbyter is but old priest writ large.

Presence

Wrath shell be no more Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire.

The Sovran Presence thus replied.

Presentment

Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment.

President

His angels president In every province.

Press

From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams.

Presume

Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.

What rests but that the mortal sentence pass, . . . Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted?

Pretend

Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them.

This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal.

Prevent

Perhaps forestalling night prevented them.

Prime

She was not the prime cause, but I myself.

His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime In manhood where youth ended.

Prince

Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince.

Princedom

Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce.

Principle

A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Private

Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.

Privation

Privation mere of light and absent day.

Proclaim

Throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held.

Procure

If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

Prodigy

So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign.

Produce

[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind.

Product

There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages.

Profess

The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Profuse

A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers.

Progenitor

And reverence thee their great progenitor.

Prohibit

Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

Project

Vented much policy, and projects deep.

What sit then projecting peace and war?

Prone

Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone.

Pronounce

Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction.

Proof

I . . . have found thee Proof against all temptation.

Propagate

No need that thou Should'st propagate, already infinite.

Propound

And darest thou to the Son of God propound To worship thee, accursed?

Prose

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter.

Prosecute

To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.

Prospect

His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land.

Him God beholding from his prospect high.

Prospective

Time's long and dark prospective glass.

Prosper

They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper.

Prosperous

By moderation either state to bear Prosperous or adverse.

Prostrate

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.

Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults.

Protest

Fiercely [they] opposed My journey strange, with clamorous uproar Protesting fate supreme.

Proud

Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek.

Proverb

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool ?

Provide

Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide.

Providence

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

Provident

And of our good and of our dignity, How provident he is.

Province

Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide.

Provision

And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast.

Provoke

Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live.

Prow

The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves.

Prudent

Moses established a grave and prudent law.

Prune

Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.

Psalm

Humus devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly.

Public

To the public good Private respects must yield.

Pulpited

Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine.

Pulse

If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse.

Punish

A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.

Punishable

That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor.

Purchase

A world who would not purchase with a bruise?

Purify

And fit them so Purified to receive him pure.

Purlieu

Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play.

Purloin

Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold.

Purple

Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend.

When morn Purples the east.

Purpose

As my eternal purpose hath decreed.

Push

Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat.

Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push.

Put

When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might.

These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.

Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.

Quadrate

At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.

Quaff

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

Quarter

Scouts each coast light-armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe.

Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements.

This isle . . . He quarters to his blue-haired deities.

Quaternion

Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run.

Quest

There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.

Question

But this question asked Puts me in doubt. Lives there who loves his pain ?

questionless

What it was in the apostles' time, that, questionless, it must be still.

Quick

Oft he to her his charge of quick return Repeated.

Quiet

That son, who on the quiet state of man Such trouble brought.

And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet.

Quill

He touched the tender stops of various quills.

Quintessence

Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep.

Quip

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.

Quit

God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.

Samson hath quit himself Like Samson.

Quite

Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will.

Quiver

Beside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.

Quotationist

The narrow intellectuals of quotationists.

Rabbinic

We will not buy your rabbinical fumes.

Race

My race of glory run, and race of shame.

Rack

Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.

Radiance

Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.

Radiant

Mark what radiant state she spreads.

Rafter

[Courtesy] oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls.

Rag

Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags.

Rage

torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.

The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.

Rain

Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain.

Raise

God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.

Ramp

The bold Ascalonite Fled from his lion ramp.

Rampant

[The] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane.

Ransom

Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.

Rapacious

[Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim

Rapid

Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.

Rare

Those rare and solitary, these in flocks.

Rash

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.

Rath

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.

Rational

What higher in her society thou find'st Attractive, human, rational, love still.

Ravel

Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved.

Ravishment

In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

Reach

Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs.

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame.

Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!

And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed.

Readmit

Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to readmit the suppliant.

Ready

If need be, I am ready to forego And quit.

Real

Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowed.

Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity.

Reality

And to realities yield all her shows.

Reap

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?

Rear

Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost.

When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear.

In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me.

Reason

But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law.

Rebel

Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.

Rebuff

The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud.

Recant

How soon . . . ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void!

Receive

Against his will he can receive no harm.

Who, if we knew What we receive, would either not accept Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down.

Recess

Departure from this happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left.

Reck

What recks it them?

Reckon

For him I reckon not in high estate.

Reclaim

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy.

Recline

They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers.

Recoil

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

Recompense

To recompense My rash, but more unfortunate, misdeed.

Recount

To all his angels, who, with true applause, Recount his praises.

Recreant

Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false.

Redeem

Which of ye will be mortal, to redeem Man's mortal crime?

Redound

The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung.

Redress

In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.

Reduce

Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears.

It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust.

Reed

Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes.

Reek

I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.

Refine

Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges.

Reflux

All from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound.

Refuge

Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge.

Refusal

Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more?

Regal

He made a scorn of his regal oath.

Regard

But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled.

Regardless

Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat.

Region

If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region.

Register

Such follow him as shall be registered.

Reiterate

That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation.

Reject

That golden scepter which thou didst reject.

Relapse

Alas! from what high hope to what relapse Unlooked for are we fallen!

Relation

Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.

Relax

Horror . . . all his joints relaxed.

Nor served it to relax their serried files.

Religious

Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence.

Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God.

Relish

Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained From this delightful fruit, nor known till now True relish, tasting.

Reluctant

Reluctant, but in vain.

Rely

Go in thy native innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue.

Remain

Childless thou art; childless remain.

The easier conquest now remains thee.

Remark

His manacles remark him; there he sits.

Remediless

Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless.

Remedy

What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us.

Remember

Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste.

Remembrance

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.

Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance.

Remiss

Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.

Remission

That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission.

Remit

So willingly doth God remit his ire.

Remitment

Disavowing the remitment of Claudius.

Remove

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

Renew

The birds-their notes renew.

Renounce

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Repair

Secret refreshings that repair his strength.

Sunk down and sought repair Of sleep, which instantly fell on me.

Repast

From dance to sweet repast they turn.

He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

Repeal

Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose.

Repeat

Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.

Replenish

The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl.

Repose

After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue.

Represent

Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires.

Among these. Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things Which he five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes.

Repress

Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress.

Reproach

That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.

Reprobate

And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate.

Reprove

What if thy son Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, “Wherefore didst thou beget me?”

Repulse

Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend.

Repute

He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute.

Requisite

All truth requisite for men to know.

Requite

He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these.

Residence

But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Resign

Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost.

Resist

That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist.

Contrary to his high will Whom we resist.

Resistless

Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection.

Resolve

To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile.

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

Resort

Far from all resort of mirth.

Respect

To the publik good Private respects must yield.

Respiration

Till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked.

Respire

Here leave me to respire.

Resplendence

Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might.

Responsory

Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy.

Rest

In dust our final rest, and native home.

There rest, if any rest can harbor there.

Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests.

Restorative

Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.

Restore

Loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.

Restraint

For one restraint, lords of the world besides.

Resty

Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers.

Result

If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.

Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet's regal sound the great result.

Resurrection

Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth.

Retain

Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire.

Retinue

What followers, what retinue canst thou gain?

Retire

[Eve] discover'd soon the place of her retire.

Retort

And with retorted scorn his back he turned.

Retreat

The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furious tide.

Retrench

But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched.

Retribution

All who have their reward on earth, . . . Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Return

On their embattled ranks the waves return.

With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn.

Revelry

And pomp and feast and revelry.

Reverend

A reverend sire among them came.

Revile

The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.

Revive

Your coming, friends, revives me.

Revolt

But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Revolution

That fear Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution, On my defenseless head.

Revolve

Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile.

This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets.

Reward

Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward.

Rhyme

He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime.

Rhymer

This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be.

Rich

As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher.

The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

Like to rich and various gems.

Riches

The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

Riddle

To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed.

Ride

[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind.

Ridge

Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.

Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars.

Ridiculous

Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to handy strokes.

Rife

Even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and perfect in may listening ear.

Right

In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.

Hast thou not right to all created things?

Righteous

Fearless in his righteous cause.

Rightly

Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind.

Rigid

Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears.

Rigor

The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.

Rind

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled.

Ring

And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's alter sing.

Ringlet

[Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved.

Rip

For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely.

Ripe

So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

Ripen

When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God.

Rise

At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection.

Rivulet

By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them.

Roam

And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam.

Roar

The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar.

Rob

Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish?

Robber

Some roving robber calling to his fellows.

Robustious

In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner.

Roof

The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired.

Rosary

His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers.

Rosy

A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue.

Rot

His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

Rough

On the rough edge of battle.

Round

Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world.

In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.

Round he throws his baleful eyes.

They . . . nightly rounding walk.

Rouse

Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea.

Rousing

I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me.

Rout

Nor do I name of men the common rout.

Row

The bright seraphim in burning row.

Royalty

Wherefore do I assume These royalties, and not refuse to reign?

Rub

The smoothed plank, . . . New rubbed with balm.

Rude

Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed.

The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.

Rudiment

but I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes The monarchies of the earth.

There he shall first lay down the rudiments Of his great warfare.

Rue

Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.

Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues.

Ruffler

Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers.

Rugged

The rugged bark of some broad elm.

Ruin

By thee raised, I ruin all my foes.

Ruinous

After a night of storm so ruinous.

Rumor

Rumor next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled.

Rupture

Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young.

Sacred

Smit with the love of sacred song.

But, to destruction sacred and devote.

Sacrifice

Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon.

Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice.

Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid.

O teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed.

Sad

The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.

Sadly

To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.

Sadness

Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.

Safe

Established in a safe, unenvied throne.

The King of heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.

Safety

Up led by thee, Into the heaven I have presumed, An earthly guest . . . With like safety guided down, Return me to my native element.

Sagacious

Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

Sage

Commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counseled the general to retreat.

At his birth a star, Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come, And guides the Eastern sages.

Sail

Behoves him now both sail and oar.

Saint

Then shall thy saints, unmixed, and from the impure Far separate, circling thy holy mount, Unfeigned hallelujahs to thee sing.

Sainted

Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.

Saintly

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity.

Sake

Will he draw out, For anger's sake, finite to infinite?

Salvation

To earn salvation for the sons of men.

Salve

Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores.

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

Sanctity

About him all the sanctities of heaven.

Sanctuary

These laws, whoever made them, bestowed on temples the privilege of sanctuary.

Sanguine

Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.

Sapient

Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.

Satiety

But thy words, with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.

Satisfaction

Die he, or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.

Satisfy

Death shall . . . with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.

Satyr

Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long.

Save

Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from utter loss.

Savor

That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite.

Savory

The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb.

Say

But what it is, hard is to say.

To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

Saying

Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled.

Scale

Long time in even scale The battle hung.

Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave.

There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion.

Satan from hence, now on the lower stair, That scaled by steps of gold to heaven-gate, Looks down with wonder.

Scandal

[I] have brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts.

Scantling

A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.

Scape

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

Scarce

With a scarce well-lighted flame.

Scathe

As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.

Scholarship

Any other house of scholarship.

Sconce

No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.

Scorch

Summer drouth or singèd air Never scorch thy tresses fair.

Scorn

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

Scout

Scouts each coast light-armèd scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe.

With obscure wing Scout far and wide into the realm of night.

Scramble

Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.

Scrannel

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.

Scrip

And in requital ope his leathern scrip.

Scripture

Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture.

Scruple

Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of heretics than of gentiles.

Scrutiny

Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view And narrower scrutiny.

Scum

Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.

Scurf

There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Shone with a glossy scurf.

Scythe

Whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down.

Sea

Ambiguous between sea and land The river horse and scaly crocodile.

Search

Enough is left besides to search and know.

Thus the orb he roamed With narrow search, and with inspection deep Considered every creature.

Season

The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs.

Seat

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.

Secret

All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.

Sectary

I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries.

Secular

New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains.

Secure

Confidence then bore thee on, secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial.

Securely

His daring foe . . . securely him defied.

Seem

All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.

Seeming

His persuasive words, impregned With reason, to her seeming.

Seemly

Suddenly a men before him stood, Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad, As one in city or court or place bred.

Seize

At last they seize The scepter, and regard not David's sons.

Seneschal

Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.

Sense

What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate.

High disdain from sense of injured merit.

Sensibly

What remains past cure, Bear not too sensibly.

Sensuous

To this poetry would be made precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Sentence

The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.

My sentence is for open war.

Sepulcher

And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Sequester

To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.

Serbonian

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . . Where armies whole have sunk.

Serenata

Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his pround fair.

Serpentine

Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.

Serried

Nor seemed it to relax their serried files.

Serve

Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright.

Serviceable

Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable.

Servitude

After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude.

Seven

Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, Game sevens and pairs.

Sever

Our state can not be severed; we are one.

Shade

Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams.

Shadow

Sin and her shadow Death.

[Types] and shadows of that destined seed.

Shadowy

The moon . . . with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things.

From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.

Shaft

And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts.

Shake

Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels That shake heaven's basis.

Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced.

Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.

Shallow

Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.

Shape

Before the gates three sat, On either side, a formidable shape.

Sharpen

The air . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far.

Shatter

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

Shave

Now shaves with level wing the deep.

Shelf

On the tawny sands and shelves.

Shelter

There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool.

Shibboleth

Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth.

Shift

[They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland.

Shifter

'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down.

Shine

Now sits not girt with taper's holy shine.

Shining

True paradise . . . inclosed with shining rock.

Ship

Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.

Shiver

All the ground With shivered armor strown.

Short

To short absense I could yield.

Shoulder

Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore The gates of Azza.

Shove

And shove away the worthy bidden guest.

Show

Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?

He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed.

Shower

Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.

Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.

Shrink

The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.

Shroud

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits.

Shut

Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open?

Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.

Side

Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert.

Along the side of yon small hill.

To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father.

Sideboard

At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused.

Sift

Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee.

Sigh

With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

Sight

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!

Signal

All obeyed The wonted signal and superior voice Of this great potentate.

As signal now in low, dejected state As erst in highest, behold him where he lies.

Silence

I saw and heared; for such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep.

And what most merits fame, in silence hid.

Silent

This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent.

Silly

All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

Silver

Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast.

Similitude

Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude.

Simply

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.

Sin

Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.

Single

Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth.

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.

Singular

His zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.

Sinuous

Streaking the ground with sinuous trace.

Sip

One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.

Sippet

Your sweet sippets in widows' houses.

Sit

They sat them down to weep.

Situate

Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

Skiff

The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff.

Skill

Nor want we skill or art.

Skirt

Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.

Slack

Csar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed.

Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.

With such delay Well plased, they slack their course.

To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion.

Slaughter

On war and mutual slaughter bent.

Slave

Art thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge?

Sleek

Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.

Sleeking her soft alluring locks.

Sleep

Watching at the head of these that sleep.

Slender

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore.

Slight

Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command.

This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

Think not so slight of glory.

Sling

At one sling Of thy victorius arm, well-pleasing Son.

Slink

Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent.

Slit

And slits the thin-spun life.

Sloth

[They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth.

Slough

He's here stuck in a slough.

Slow

These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.

Slubber

There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy.

Small

To compare Great things with small.

Smart

To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.

Smell

Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.

Breathing the smell of field and grove.

Smile

Sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow.

Smoke

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.

Smooth

The only smooth poet of those times.

In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.

Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm.

Snaky

So to the coast of Jordan he directs His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles.

That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield.

Snare

Lest that too heavenly form . . . snare them.

So

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength.

Soar

Where the deep transported mind may soar.

Sober

Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.

Soft

On her soft axle, white she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along.

Soil

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil?

Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.

Sojourn

Though long detained In that obscure sojourn.

Soldiery

A camp of faithful soldiery.

Sole

He, be sure . . . first and last will reign Sole king.

Solemn

His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned.

Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts.

Solemnize

Their choice nobility and flowers . . . Met from all parts to solemnize this feast.

Solicit

Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

That fruit . . . solicited her longing eye.

Solid

The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.

Solitary

Those rare and solitary, these in flocks.

Satan . . . explores his solitary flight.

Something

Something yet of doubt remains.

Somewhat

His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen.

Song

This subject for heroic song.

Soon

She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned.

Sooth

The soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains.

Sorcery

Adder's wisdom I have learned, To fence my ear against thy sorceries.

Sorry

Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.

Sort

To Adam in what sort Shall I appear?

As when the total kind Of birds, in orderly array on wing, Came summoned over Eden to receive Their names of there.

Soul

Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul.

That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee.

Sound

The warlike sound Of trumpets loud and clarions.

Sound-board

To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.

Sow

[He] sowed with stars the heaven.

Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.

Space

Nine times the space that measures day and night.

Spare

[Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare.

Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.

Sparkle

I see bright honor sparkle through your eyes.

Spatter

That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after.

Speak

And for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence.

Specious

The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied.

Speck

Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold.

Speculation

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts.

Speech

The acts of God . . . to human ears Can nort without process of speech be told.

I. with leave of speech implored, . . . replied.

Speed

Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails.

I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand.

Spell

To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.

Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew.

Sphere

Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere, he framed.

Sphery

She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime.

Spiritful

The spiritful and orderly life of our own grown men.

Spiritous

More refined, more spirituous and pure.

Spoil

Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.

Sport

[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.

Sportful

Down he alights among the sportful herd.

Spot

That spot to which I point is Paradise.

Spread

Rose, as in a dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit.

Spreadingly

The best times were spreadingly infected.

Spring

[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.

Spume

Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume.

Spur

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days.

Spurn

What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?

Squadron

Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.

Square

Square my trial To my proportioned strength.

Squat

Him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

Staid

O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

Stain

Of honor void, Of innocence, of faith, of purity, Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained.

Stall

Cries the stall reader, “Bless us! what a word on A titlepage is this!”

Starlight

Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

Starve

From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth.

State

His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread.

The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states.

I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy.

Station

The greater part have kept, I see, Their station.

Statist

Statists indeed, And lovers of their country.

Stay

Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay.

Stead

Here thy sword can do thee little stead.

Steal

A soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich, distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air.

Steer

Where the wind Veers oft, as oft [a ship] so steers, and shifts her sail.

Steerage

He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth.

Stellar

[These soft fires] in part shed down Their stellar virtue.

Stem

Stemming nightly toward the pole.

Stick

Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day.

Stiff

[They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky.

Stigmatize

That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.

Stock

All our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.

Stomach

The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it.

Stoop

The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

Cowering low With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing.

Store

With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and give the prize.

Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.

Straiten

In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe.

Strange

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.

Stranger

To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger.

Streak

What mean those colored streaks in heaven?

Stream

Beneath those banks where rivers stream.

Street

At home or through the high street passing.

Strength

Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty.

Strict

It shall be still in strictest measure.

Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: - “What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!”

Strike

Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.

String

Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still.

Strive

[Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive.

Stroking

I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.

Strow

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.

Stud

Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl.

Studious

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale.

Study

Just men they seemed, and all their study bent To worship God aright, and know his works.

Stumble

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.

Stupid

O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!

Sty

To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.

Stygian

At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect.

Subcommittee

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed.

Subdichotomy

Many subdichatomies of petty schisms.

Subdue

If aught . . . were worthy to subdue The soul of man.

Subindividual

An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals.

Subject

Subjected to his service angel wings.

Sublime

Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.

His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule.

Submissive

Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking.

Submit

To thy husband's will Thine shall submit.

Subserve

Not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

Subsist

Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve.

Substantially

In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed.

Substitute

Hast thou not made me here thy substitute?

Subtle

Things remote from use, obscure and subtle.

Subtly

Thou seest how subtly to detain thee I devise.

Suburb

The suburb of their straw-built citadel.

Succeed

Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!

Success

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The tempter stood.

Succinct

His habit fit for speed succinct.

Such

That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself.

Sudden

The apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye.

Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost!

Suffer

Our spirit and strength entire, Strongly to suffer and support our pains.

I suffer them to enter and possess.

Suffice

To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?

Sum

Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought My story to the sum of earthly bliss.

But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings].

Sunbeam

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam.

Sunshine

But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator.

Supererogate

The fervency of one man in prayer can not supererogate for the coldness of another.

Supernal

Not by the sufferance of supernal power.

Superstition

And the truth With superstitions and traditions taint.

Suppliant

To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.

Surety

[We] our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none.

Surface

The bright surface of this ethereous mold.

Surmise

[We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false.

Surmount

What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate.

Surpass

This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy.

Surprisal

How to secure the lady from surprisal.

Surprise

Up he starts, Discovered and surprised.

Surround

But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me.

Survey

Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above.

Suspect

What I can do or offer is suspect.

From her hand I could suspect no ill.

Suspense

[The great light of day] suspense in heaven.

Sustain

I waked again, for my sustain was the Lord.

Sustenance

For lying is thy sustenance, thy food.

Swarm

Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

Sway

With huge two-handed sway brandished aloft.

Expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle.

Sweet

Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.

Swill

I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.

Swim

[They] now swim in joy.

Swinge

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.

Swink

And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.

Sword

He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law.

Sycophant

Sycophanting and misnaming the work of his adversary.

Sympathy

They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy.

Fault, Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration.

Symphonious

Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps.

Syrtis

Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land.

Tale

And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.

Tall

Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.

Task

Ma task of servile toil.

Taskmaster

All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.

Taste

Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.

Ted

The smell of grain or tedded grass.

Temerity

Her rush hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.

Temper

Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heared and judged.

Temperament

However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament that can be found in things of this nature, so disputable on their side.

Tempest

[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed.

Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.

Tempter

So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned.

Tend

And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge.

Thus will this latter, as the former world, Still tend from bad to worse.

Tenfold

The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform.

Terrene

Tenfold the length of this terrene.

Terrify

If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself.

Territory

He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between.

Terror

Terror seized the rebel host.

Testimony

[Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach.

Textuist

The crabbed textualists of his time.

Than

Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, Satan except, none higher sat.

thank

What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin?

That

The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.

The

So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate.

Theater

Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view.

Then

But that opinion, I trust, by then this following argument hath been well read, will be left for one of the mysteries of an indulgent Antichrist.

Thence

Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him.

Thereafter

I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.

Thief

Some roving robber calling to his fellows.

Thin

Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused.

Think

Nor think superfluous other's aid.

Thoroughfare

[Made] Hell and this world -- one realm, one continent Of easy thoroughfare.

Though

Not that I so affirm, though so it seem.

Thrall-like

Servile and thrall-like fear.

Thrive

O son, why sit we here, each other viewing Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives?

Throe

Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.

Throne

High on a throne of royal state.

True image of the Father, whether throned In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.

Throng

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.

Throttle

Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.

Throughout

Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.

Thrust

Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.

Thunder

His dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears.

Thunderous

How he before the thunderous throne doth lie.

Thunderstrike

drove before him, thunderstruck.

Thus

Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth.

Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds.

Thwart

Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.

Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night.

Thy

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.

Thyself

Ere I do thee, thou to thyself wast cruel.

Ticktack

A game at ticktack with words.

Tidings

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Time

Summers three times eight save one.

Tipsy

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

Tire

In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.

Tissue

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials.

Title

Hadrian, having quieted the island, took it for honor to be titled on his coin, “The Restorer of Britain.”

Titular

If these magnificent titles yet remain Not merely titular.

To

So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbor smiled.

Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.

Toil

[I] toiled out my uncouth passage.

My task of servile toil.

Toilsome

What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?

Tolerable

As may affect the earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable.

Tone

[Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones.

Tongue

To speak all tongues.

Top

The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold.

Other . . . aspired to be the top of zealots.

A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires.

Tophet

The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell.

Torch

They light the nuptial torch.

Torment

The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Tormentor

Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings.

Torture

Ghastly spasm or racking torture.

Toss

Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

Touch

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly.

What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.

[They] touched their golden harps.

Tour

The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.

Tournament

With cruel tournament the squadrons join.

Towered

Towered cities please us then.

Trace

I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents.

Track

Far from track of men.

Trade

The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade.

Tragedian

Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught.

Trail

They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast.

Train

In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery.

Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation.

Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train.

Transcendent

Clothed with transcendent brightness.

Transfuse

Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused.

Transgress

For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command.

Transgression

What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression, death denounced that day ?

Transient

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes.

Transition

[He] with transition sweet, new speech resumes.

Transmit

The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel.

Transport

[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion.

Trappings

Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings.

Tread

Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.

Treasure

From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure.

Treat

Now of love they treat.

Tremble

The Mount of Sinai, whose gray top Shall tremble.

Trespass

The fatal trespass done by Eve.

Trial

[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight.

Tributary

He to grace his tributary gods.

Trim

A rotten building newly trimmed over.

Trine

In sextile, square, and trine.

Triniunity

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions.

Trip

Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe.

Imperfect words, with childish trips.

Tripping

Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes.

Triumph

Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven.

Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time.

Triumphal

Messiah his triumphal chariot turned.

Joyless triumphals of his hoped success.

Triumphant

Successful beyond hope to lead ye forth Triumphant out of this infernal pit.

Troll

To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.

Trouble

God looking forth will trouble all his host.

Lest the fiend . . . some new trouble raise.

Troublesome

These troublesome disguises that we wear.

Truce

Where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts.

Truckage

The truckage of perishing coin.

True

Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled.

Truly

Beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.

Trump

The wakeful trump of doom.

But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump.

Trunk

About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach.

Trust

His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength.

[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.

Try

Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased.

Let us try . . . to found a path.

Tuft

Under a tuft of shade.

Tufted

The tufted crowtoe, and pale jessamine.

Tug

He tugged, he shook, till down they came.

Tumid

So high as heaved the tumid hills.

Tumult

Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt.

Tumulter

He severely punished the tumulters.

Tumultuous

His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast.

Tunable

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.

Tune

For now to sorrow must I tune my song.

Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

Turbulent

Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.

Turf

The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves.

Turm

Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings.

Turn

Turn the adamantine spindle round.

Thrice I deluded her, and turned to sport Her importunity.

The gate . . . on golden hinges turning.

Turning

Through paths and turnings often trod by day.

Tusked

The tusked boar out of the wood.

Twilight

As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.

Twine

Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine.

Two-handed

That two-handed engine [the sword].

Ultimate

My harbor, and my ultimate repose.

Umbrage

Where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad.

umbrageous

Umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape.

Un-Mosaic

By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic.

Unactive

While other animals unactive range.

Unawares

Lest unawares we lose This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill.

Unbid

Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

Uncamp

If they could but now uncamp their enemies.

Unconform

Not unconform to other shining globes.

Unconscionable

Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended.

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides.

Uncouth

Thus sang the uncouth swain.

Uncreate

Who can uncreate thee, thou shalt know.

Unction

To be heir, and to be king By sacred unction, thy deserved right.

Undecked

[Eve] undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair Than wood nymph.

Under

Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place.

That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct.

A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egypt.

Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change.

Undergo

Certain to undergo like doom.

Underneath

Or sullen mole, that runneth underneath.

Understand

Understood not all was but a show.

War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved.

Undertake

To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt.

Unequal

Against unequal arms to fight in pain.

Unestablish

The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government.

Unheard

Nor was his name unheard or unadored.

Union

One kingdom, joy, and union without end.

[Man] is to . . . beget Like of his like, his image multiplied. In unity defective; which requires Collateral love, and dearest amity.

Unison

[sounds] intermixed with voice, Choral or unison.

Unite

Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul.

Universal

At which the universal host up dent A shout that tore Hell's concave.

Universe

How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man!

Unliquored

Like an unliquored Silenus.

Unmonopolize

Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry.

Unreproved

In unreproved pleasures free.

Unscale

[An eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.

Unthread

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints.

Up

But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell.

His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance.

Upbear

One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God.

Upland

Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite.

Uplift

Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed.

Uproot

At his command the uprooted hills retired.

Upturn

So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air.

Upward

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish.

Use

When he framed All things to man's delightful use.

God made two great lights, great for their use To man.

Some other means I have which may be used.

How wouldst thou use me now?

Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.

Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks.

Useful

To what can I useful!

Useless

Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous.

Usher

The stars that usher evening rose.

Utensil

Wagons fraught with utensils of war.

Utter

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

Utterance

At length gave utterance to these words.

Utterless

A clamoring debate of utterless things.

Uxorious

How wouldst thou insult, When I must live uxorious to thy will In perfect thraldom!

Vacancy

Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.

Vacuous

Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous the space.

Vagabond

To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate.

Vagancy

A thousand vagancies of glory and delight.

Vagary

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

Vain

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Valley

Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.

Valor

For contemplation he and valor formed.

Van

Standards and gonfalons, twixt van and rear, Stream in the air.

Vanity

[Sin] with vanity had filled the works of men.

Vapor

Poets used to vapor much after this manner.

Variable

His heart, I know, how variable and vain!

Variety

For earth hath this variety from heaven.

All sorts are here that all the earth yields! Variety without end.

Various

So many and so various laws are given.

A happy rural seat of various view.

Varnish

Close ambition, varnished o'er with zeal.

Vary

God hath here Varied his bounty so with new delights.

Vast

Through the vast and boundless deep.

Michael bid sound The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven It sounded.

Vaunt

My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts.

Vegetable

Blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold.

Veil

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadornéd golden tresses wore.

Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.

Venality

Complaints of Roman venality became louder.

Venereal

Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.

Vengeance

To execute fierce vengeance on his foes.

Venom

Or hurtful worm with cankered venom bites.

Vent

Without the vent of words.

By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies.

Venturous

This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm He plucked, he tasted.

Verbal

And loses, though but verbal, his reward.

Verdant

Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass.

Verify

So shalt thou best fulfill, best verify. The prophets old, who sung thy endless reign.

vernal

And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.

Verse

Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.

Versed

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Very

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.

Vessel

[He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk.

[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter.

Vest

Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.

Vesture

Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem.

Vice

Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice.

Vicious

Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.

Vicissitude

God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night.

Victorious

But I shall rise victorious, and subdue My vanquisher.

Vie

Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.

View

Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view.

Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn.

Vigil

So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned.

Vigilance

And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread.

Vigor

But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find.

Vilify

When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite.

Villanage

I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.

Viol

Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still, more apt for mournful things.

Violate

His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape.

Oft have they violated The temple, oft the law, with foul affronts.

Violence

All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict.

Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence.

Violent

A violent cross wind from either coast.

To bring forth more violent deeds.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

viper

Who committed To such a viper his most sacred trust Of secrecy.

Virgin

Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won.

Virtual

Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed.

Virtue

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

Virtuous

Every virtuous plant and healing herb.

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, conscience.

Visored

Visored falsehood and base forgery.

Visual

The air, Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray.

Vital

And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth.

Vizard

To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law.

Vocal

To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song.

Voice

Join thy voice unto the angel choir.

Volley

Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew.

Voluminous

But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast.

Voluntary

Our voluntary service he requires.

Voluptuous

Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.

Vomit

Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.

Votarist

Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed.

Vouch

Me damp horror chilled At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.

Voyage

So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds.

With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep.

Vulgar

Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.

Wade

So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

Waft

A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Wait

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Wake

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.

Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked.

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.

To second life Waked in the renovation of the just.

The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.

Waken

Venus now wakes, and wakens love.

They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high.

Walk

A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers.

Want

And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey.

Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise.

Wanton

[She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved.

Nature here wantoned as in her prime.

War

On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war.

Warble

If she be right invoked in warbled song.

Wardrobe

Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear.

Warfare

This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare.

Warlike

The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased.

Warm

Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

Warp

A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.

Warrant

In a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I can not be.

Warrior

Warriors old with ordered spear and shield.

Wary

We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men.

Wash

Fresh-blown roses washed with dew.

Wassailer

The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.

Waste

The dismal situation waste and wild.

Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground.

And strangled with her waste fertility.

O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain.

For all this waste of wealth loss of blood.

Watch

Shepherds keeping watch by night.

Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames.

The Son gave signal high To the bright minister that watched.

And flaming ministers, to watch and tend Their earthy charge.

Water

With tears watering the ground.

Wattle

The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes.

Waver

In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols.

Wax

Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.

Way

The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

If that way be your walk, you have not far.

When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Weak

If evil thence ensue, She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

Weal

To him linked in weal or woe.

Weapon

They, astonished, all resistance lost, All courage; down their idle weapons dropped.

Wearer

Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags.

Weary

I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries.

Weave

That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk To deck her sons.

Wed

I saw thee first, and wedded thee.

And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her.

Wedge

In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Weed

In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Weep

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.

Weigh

Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own.

Weight

For the public all this weight he bears.

Welcome

Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

Welk

The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying.

Well

Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well.

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight.

Know In measure what the mind may well contain.

Welter

He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.

Westering

Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.

Wet

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant.

Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise . . . Whether to deck with clouds the uncolored sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.

What

To restrain what power either the devil or any earthly enemy hath to work us woe.

But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the misrule and turbulency of the prelates? What do I pick up so thriftily their scatterings and diminishings of the meaner subject?

Whatever

Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields.

Wheel

[He] throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.

Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course.

Thunder mixed with hail, Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky, And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls.

When

When as sacred light began to dawn.

Whence

Whence and what art thou?

Grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends.

O, how unlike the place from whence they fell?

Whereat

They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews.

Whereon

O fair foundation laid whereon to build.

Wherewithal

[The builders of Babel], still with vain design, New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build.

Whet

The mower whets his scythe.

Whether

But whether thus these things, or whether not; Whether the sun, predominant in heaven, Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun, . . . Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid.

Whilere

He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world.

Whirl

See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.

Whist

The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed.

Whistle

Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whistle from the lodge.

Whither

Nor have I . . . whither to appeal.

Who

Whom I could pity thus forlorn.

Whole

Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life.

So absolute she seems, And in herself complete.

Wholesome

Wholesome thirst and appetite.

Why

No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm.

Wicked

Hence, then, and evil go with thee along, Thy offspring, to the place of evil, hell, Thou and thy wicked crew!

Wickered

Ships of light timber, wickered with osier between, and covered over with leather.

Wield

The famous orators . . . whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty.

Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed.

Wielder

A wielder of the great arm of the war.

Wight

Oh, say me true if thou wert mortal wight.

Wild

The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown.

With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven.

Wilderness

These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease.

Wile

Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.

Will

By all law and reason, that which the Parliament will not, is no more established in this kingdom.

Willful

Thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who, for my willful crime, art banished hence.

Willing

With wearied wings and willing feet.

[They] are held, with his melodious harmony, In willing chains and sweet captivity.

Win

Nor is it aught but just That he, who in debate of truth hath won, should win in arms.

Wind

Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor.

To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison.

Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe.

Winding

To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.

Window

Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow.

Wine

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.

Winnow

Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air.

Wipe

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.

Wisely

And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild.

Wish

Will he, wise, let loose at once his ire . . . To give his enemies their wish!

Wit

In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.

Witchery

Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries.

Wither

Shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered all their strength.

Withhold

Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good.

Within

Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power.

Wizard

See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet!

Where Deva spreads her wizard stream.

Woad

Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.

Woe

Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.

Wont

They are . . . to be called out to their military motions, under sky or covert, according to the season, as was the Roman wont.

Woo

Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song.

Wood-note

Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

Woody

Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.

Wording

It is believed this wording was above his known style.

Work

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

The work some praise, And some the architect.

Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.

Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind.

Workmanship

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship.

World

With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.

Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant, but high-hand seemed other worlds.

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

Murmuring that now they must be put to make war beyond the world's end -- for so they counted Britain.

Worldly

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek.

Worse

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

Worship

When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.

Worth

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.

Worthy

Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be.

And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness.

Wrap

I . . . wrapt in mist Of midnight vapor, glide obscure.

Wreak

On me let Death wreak all his rage.

Wreath

[He] of his tortuous train Curled many a wanton wreath.

Wreathe

From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve Down dropped.

Dusk faces with withe silken turbants wreathed.

Wrestle

Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs.

Wrinkle

A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed.

Write

He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.