3 For cloy'd with woes and trouble store 4 Reckon❜d I am with them that pass I am a man, but weak alas, 15 * Heb. A man without manly strength, 5 From life difcharg'd and parted quite And like the flain in bloody fight Whom thou remembereft no more, Them from thy hand deliver'd o'er Where thickeft darknefs hovers round, In horrid deeps to mourn. 7 Thy wrath, from which no shelter faves, Full fore doth prefs on me'; 20 25 30 *And all thy waves break me. *The Heb. bears both, And mak'st me odious, * Thou break it upon me all thy waves, 8 Thou doft my friends from me estrange, Me to them odious, for they change, 35 And I here pent up thus. 9. Through forrow, and affliction great, Mine eyes grow dim and dead, Lord, all the day I thee entreat, My hands to thee I spread. 40 10 Wilt thou do wonders on the dead, Shall the deceas'd arise And praise thee from their loathsome bed With pale and hollow eyes? 11 Shall they thy loving kindness tell On whom the grave bath hold, 45 Or they who in perdition dwell, 12 In darkness can thy mighty band Or wondrous acts be known, Thy juftice in the gloomy land Of dark oblivion ? 13 But I to thee, O Lord, do cry, Ere yet my life be spent, Each morn, and thee prevent. And up to thee my pray'r doth hie 55 14 Why wilt thou, Lord, my foul forfake, And hide thy face from me? + Heb.Pra concuffione. 61 15 That am already bruis'd and + shake With terror fent from thee? Bruis'd, and afflicted, and fo low As ready to expire, While I thy terrors undergo 16 Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow, 18 Lover and friend thou haft remov'd, They fly me now whom I have lov'd, A PARAPHRASE ON PSALM CXIV. 65 This and the following Pfalm were done by the Author at fifteen years old. WHEN the bleft feed of Terah's faithful fon WHEN After long toil their liberty had won, X Low in the earth; Jordan's clear streams recoil, 10 15 That glafly floods from rugged rocks can crush, 18 Who by his all-commanding might Did fill the new-made world with light. For his, &c. 28 He with his thunder-clasping hand And in despite of Pharoah fell, He brought from thence his Ifrael. Thy ruddy waves he cleft in twain Of the Erythræan main. For his, &c. The floods ftood still like walls of glass, While the Hebrew bands did pass For his, &c. But full foon they did devour, The tawny king with all his pow'r. His chofen people he did bless In the wafteful wilderness. And freed us from the slavery Of the invading enemy. For his, &c. All living creatures he doth feed, And with full hand fupplies their need. 76 80 84 88 Let us therefore warble forth That his manfion hath on high A GLOSSARY. Explaining the antiquated and difficult Words in Milton's poetical Works. P. L. ftands for Paradife Loft; P. R. for Paradife Regained; S. A. for Sampfon Agoniftes; P. for the Poems; and S. for the Sonnets. The letters i, ii, iii, &c. denote the books: the figures 1, 2, 3, &c. the verses. When a word occurs but once or twice, or is taken in a peculiar fenfe, or has different fenfes in different places; in all thefe cafes the places are pointed out. As Milton's critics differ as to the fenfe of fome words, fome preferring one fenfe, and fome another, the different fenfes are often given. The etymology of many words is given, and frequently the literal, or Original, as well as the metaphorical fignification. A ACANTHUS, the herb Bear's-foot. Acclame, acclamation. Acquift, S. A. 1755, the fame as acquifition, attainment. Adorn, P. L. viii. 576, (an adjective.) Made fo adorn, &c. finely dreffed. Aduft, Adufted, burnt up, hot as with fire.Afer, P. L. x. 702, the fouth-west wind. Agape, P. L. v. 557, (an adverb) ftaring with eagerness. Agonistes, an actor, a prize-fighter. Alp, P. L. ii. 620, S. A. 628, for mountain in general. Amarant, P. L. iii 353, for unfading, that decayeth not; a flower of a purple velvet colour, which, though gathered, keeps its beauty. Ambrofial, partaking of the nature or qualities of ambrofia, the imaginary food of the gods; fragrant, delicious, delectable. Milton applies this epithet to the night, P. L. v. 642. Amice, P. R. iv. 427, clothing; the firft or undermoft part of a priest's habit, derived from the Latin amicio, to clothe. Amphibana, P. L. x. 524, A ferpent faid to have a head at both ends. Antarctic, P. L. ix. 79. the fouthern pole, fo called as oppofite to the northern. Apocalyps, P. L. iv. 2, a revelation, a difcovery. To appay P. L. xii, 401, to fatisfy, to content. Argeftes, P. L. x. 699, the north-eaft wind. To areed, P. L. iv. 962, to decree, to award. Alphal tus, P. L. i. 729, bitumen, a pitchy fubftance. To aftound, |