Notes to Chapter 182 R. W. Condee, “The Latin Poetry of John Milton,” in The Latin Poetry of the English
Poets, ed. J. W. Binns (London, 1974), 71–6.
83 Ll. 62–3: “Contigerit, charo si tam propè sanguine juncti / Cognatas artes, studiumque
affine sequamur.”
84 Ll. 73–6: “Sed magis excultam cupiens ditescere mentem, / Me procul urbano strepitu,
secessibus altis / Abductum, Aoniae jucunda per otia ripae, / Phoebaeo lateri comitem
sinis ire beatum.”
85 Ll. 101–9: “Jamque nec obscurus populo miscebor inerti, / Vitabuntque oculos vestigia
nostra profanos. / Este procul vigiles curae, procul este querelae, / Invidiaeque acies
transverso tortilis hirquo, / Saeva nec anguiferos extende Calumnia rictus; / In me triste
nihil saedissima turba potestis / Nec vestri sum juris ego.”
86 Parker, “Chronology of Milton’s Latin Poems,” 125–8; Parker, I, 125–8, 166–7; II,
788–9, 809.
87 Sirluck, “Milton’s Idle Right Hand,” 784–5.
88 William Kerrigan, The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost (Cambridge,
Mass., and London, 1983), 22–60.
89 Shawcross, “Milton’s Decision to Become a Poet,” Modern Language Quarterly 24 (1963),
21–30; “Milton and Diodati,” MS 7 (1975), 127–63; John Milton: The Self and the World,
56–70.
90 Christopher was “restored into commons” by the Inner Temple on November 26,
1637 (LR I, 351) – meaning he was eating there (and not at home) during term time.
An infant son was buried at Horton on March 26, 1639, and a daughter baptized there
on August 11, 1640 (LR I, 409; II, 25).
91 Masson’s estimate (I, 736). Milton senior had provided his son with some independence
by putting in his name in 1627 an interest-bearing bond from Richard Powell. In April,
1638 he sold a valuable piece of property in Covent Garden, held both in his name and
his son’s, possibly to help finance Milton’s travels.
92 Lawes obtained the letters of passage from Theophilus Howard, Earl of Suffolk, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports, and sent them to Milton with a brief note, apparently just
before Milton’s departure in April (Parker, I, 339).
93 The friend, identified by Wotton only as “Mr. H.... your said learned Friend” (CPW
I, 340), was probably John Hales, also a fellow of Eton. How Milton met him is uncer-
tain, but he became known later for liberal religious views – toleration and Socinianism
(Masson, I, 537). Horton is only a few miles from Eton.
94 There may be some debt to the prose dream narrative (with interspersed passages of
dialogue and song) by Henrik van der Put (Erycius Puteanus), Comus, sive Phagesiposia
Cimmeria, Somnium (Louvain, 1610; Oxford, 1634). This work makes Comus, who is
an androgyne and has a palace, a figure for contemporary depraved manners and cus-
toms.
95 Aurelian Townshend and Inigo Jones, Tempe Restored: A Masque Presented by the Queen
and Fourteen Ladies to the King’s Majesty at Whitehall on Shrove Tuesday, 1632 (London,
1631 [1632]); Thomas Carew, Coelum Britannicum. A Masque at Whitehall in the Ban-
queting House on Shrove Tuesday Night, the l8th of February, 1633 [1634] (London, 1633
[1634]). See Lewalski, “Milton’s Comus and the Politics of Masquing,” in Politics of the
Stuart Court Masque, 296–320.
96 Neither the Trinity manuscript nor the printed text have stage directions for Revels
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