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3 For cloy'd with woes and trouble store
Surcharg'd my foul doth lie,
My life at Death's uncheerful door
Unto the grave draws nigh.

4 Reckon❜d I am with them that pass
Down to the difmal pit,

I am a man, but weak alas,
And for that name unfit.

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* Heb. A man without manly strength,

5 From life difcharg'd and parted quite
Among the dead to fleep,

And like the flain in bloody fight
That in the grave lie deep,

Whom thou remembereft no more,
Doft never more regard,

Them from thy hand deliver'd o'er
Death's bideous house bath barr'd.
6 Thou in the lowest pit profound
Haft fet me all forlorn,

Where thickeft darknefs hovers round,

In horrid deeps to mourn.

7 Thy wrath, from which no shelter faves,

Full fore doth prefs on me';

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*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,

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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.

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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,

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Or they who in perdition dwell,
Thy faithfulness unfold?

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.

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And up to thee my pray'r doth hie

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14 Why wilt thou, Lord, my foul forfake, And hide thy face from me?

+ Heb.Pra concuffione.

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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
Aftonish'd with thine ire.

16 Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow,
Thy threat'nings cut me through:
17 All day they round about me go,
Like waves they me purlue.

18 Lover and friend thou haft remov'd,
And fever'd from me far:

They fly me now whom I have lov'd,
And as in darkness are.

A PARAPHRASE ON PSALM CXIV.

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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,
And paft from Pharian fields to Canaan land,
Led by the ftrength of the Almighty's hand,
Jehovah's wonders were in Ifrael shown,
His praife and glory was in Ifrael known.
That faw the troubled fea, and fhivering fled,
And fought to hide his froth-be-curled head
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Low in the earth; Jordan's clear streams recoil,
As a faint hoft that hath receiv'd the foil.
The high, huge bellied mountains skip like rams
Amongst their ewes, the little hills like lambs.
Why fled the ocean? and why skipt the mountains?
Why turn'd Jordan tow'rd his crystal fountains?
Shake earth, and at the prefence be aghaft
Of him that ever was, and ay shall last,

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That glafly floods from rugged rocks can crush,
And make foft rills from fiery flint-ftones gush.

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Who by his all-commanding might

Did fill the new-made world with light.

For his, &c.

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He with his thunder-clasping hand
Smote the first born of Egypt land.
For his, &c.

And in despite of Pharoah fell,

He brought from thence his Ifrael.
For his, &c.

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.
For his, &c.

His chofen people he did bless

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In the wafteful wilderness.

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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.
For his, &c.

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Let us therefore warble forth
His mighty majesty and worth.
For his, &c.

That his manfion hath on high
Above the reach of mortal eye.
For his mercies ay endure,
Ever faithful, ever fure.

A GLOSSARY.

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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.

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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,

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