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England’s Antiphon

CHAPTER XXIII
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Therefore "all notes true." See note 2, p.

205.
[108] An intransitive verb: _he was wont_.
[109] The birds called _halcyons_ were said to build their nests on the water, and, while they were brooding, to keep it calm.
[110] The morning star.
[111] The God of shepherds especially, but the God of all nature--the All in all, for _Pan_ means the _All_.
[112] Milton here uses the old Ptolemaic theory of a succession of solid crystal concentric spheres, in which the heavenly bodies were fixed, and which revolving carried these with them.

The lowest or innermost of these spheres was that of the moon.

"The hollow round of Cynthia's seat" is, therefore, this sphere in which the moon sits.
[113] That cannot be expressed or described.
[114] By _hinges_ he means the axis of the earth, on which it turns as on a hinge.

The origin of _hinge_ is _hang_.


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