322 Albert S. Cook, 



For the Old Testament, see also Exod. 20. 26; Ezek. 16. 36; 23. 

 29; Nah. 3. 5. 



41. Pollute. From Lat. pollntus-, but polluted in P.L. 12. 110. 

 Such participles, based directly upon the Latin, are common in Shake- 

 speare as well as Milton; see Abbott, Shak. Gram. 342. 



blame. Blameworthiness, wickedness. Cf. P.L. 5. 119; 9. 292; 

 also Eph. 1. 4, and frequently in Shakespeare. 



42. saintly veil of maiden white. See on innocent snow, 39. 

 Sonn. 23. 9: 



Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. 



Cf. P.L. 9. 1054 ; S.A. 1035. White raiment is a sign of purity in 

 the Bible; cf. on naked shame, 40, and see Rev. 3. 5; 4. 4; 6. 11; 

 7. 9, 13, 14; 15. 6; 19. 8; cf. also Isa. 61. 10. 

 maiden. Cf. Com. 843, ' maiden gentleness.' 



43. Confounded. ' Discomfited, abashed ' (L.). Cf. P.L. 9. 1064 ; 

 Ps. 83. 63 (the Authorized Version has the same word, Ps. 83. 17). 



44. deformities. Lydgate (1413) speaks of ' fowle spottys, and 

 wonderful defourmitees,' Lyte (1578) of ' sonne burning, and other 

 suche deformyties of the face.' In the moral sense, Maundeville 

 (1400) uses the expression ' Purged and clene of all vice and alkyn 

 deformitee.' See Neiv Eng. Diet., and P.R. 3. 86. 



Milton conceives of the earth, when neither clothed with verdure 

 nor covered with snow, as unsightly, and bases his figure upon this 

 conception. 



45. cease. This transitive sense seems to be from the French. 

 With 'fears to cease' compare Virgil's solvere metus {jEn. 1. 163). 



46. meek-eyed Peace. Verity compares ' pure-eyed Faith,' Com. 

 213. Gentle eyes are ascribed to peace by Shakespeare, King 

 John 4. 3. 150. 



47. olive. Verity says : ' Cf. the description of an allegorical 

 representative of Peace in Ben Jonson's Entertainments at the Coro- 

 nation of James L : " The first and principal person in the Temple 

 was Irene or Peace. She was placed aloft, . . . her attire white, 

 semined with stars : ... a wreath of olive on her head, on her 

 shoulder a silver dove. In her left hand she held forth an ohve 

 branch." ' 



But there is other precedent for the olive wreath. Giles Fletcher, 

 Chrisfs Victory, has : 



One of her [Mercy's] graces she sent hastily. 

 Smiling Eirene, that a garland wears 

 Of gilded olive on her fairer hairs. 



