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England's Antiphon
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"Come to find a place." The transitive verb stow means to put in a place: here it is used intransitively.
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The list of servants then kept in large houses, the number of such being far greater than it is now.
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There has been some blundering in the transcription of the last two lines of this stanza. In the former of the two I have substituted doth for dost, evidently wrong. In the latter, the word cradle is doubtful. I suggest cradled, but am not satisfied with it. The meaning is, however, plain enough.
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"The very blessing the soul needed."
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An old English game, still in use in Scotland and America, but vanishing before cricket.
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Silly means innocent, and therefore blessed; ignorant of evil, and in so far helpless. It is easy to see how affection came to apply it to idiots. It is applied to the ox and ass in the next stanza, and is often an epithet of shepherds.
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See Poems by Sir Henry Wotton and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah.
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"Know thyself."
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"And I have grown their map."
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The guilt of Adam's first sin, supposed by the theologians of Dr. Donne's time to be imputed to Adam's descendants.
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The past tense: ran.
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Their door to enter into sin—by his example.
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He was sent by James I. to assist an embassy to the Elector Palatine, who had married his daughter Elizabeth.
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He had lately lost his wife, for whom he had a rare love.
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"If they know us not by intuition, but by judging from circumstances and signs."
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"With most willingness."
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"Art proud."
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A strange use of the word; but it evidently means recovered, and has some analogy with the French repasser.
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To understood: to sweeten.
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He plays upon the astrological terms, houses and schemes. The astrologers divided the heavens into twelve houses; and the diagrams by which they represented the relative positions of the heavenly bodies, they called schemes.
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The tree of knowledge.
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Dyce, following Seward, substitutes curse.
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A glimmer of that Platonism of which, happily, we have so much more in the seventeenth century.
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Should this be "in fees;" that is, in acknowledgment of his feudal sovereignty?
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Warm is here elongated, almost treated as a dissyllable.
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