Milton's Arcades and Comus Author:John Milton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mines, inhabited by spirits, 133. misspellings, due to words similar in sound, 57, 90, 116, 157. moly, the herb, 154. morris-dance, 92, 93; see a... more »lso Skeat's note on The Two Noble Kinsmen, Hi. 5. 108. music, Milton's use of musical terms, 108, 147. octosyllabic metre, much used in Masques, iss. Oriental words in English, 86, 157' 158- Pageants in Italy, liii—Ivi; in England, Ivi. pearls, found in Welsh rivers, 177, 178. philosophy, praise of, 139. plagiarism, xl. planets, influence of, 56. "poetic diction," 62, 01. "popular etymology,' 173, 191. prologue, lines I—92 of Comtu a prologue in the style of Euri- pides, 75—76- q, a. Latin letter, 92. repetition, Milton's use of, 106. Revels, at Court, Ivii; at the Inns of Court, Ivii, Ixxiii. rhyme, imperfect, li; apparently irregular, 53, 142. rhythm suiting the sense, 87, 119. "rushy-fringed," an instance of the "literary compound," 187. Scandinavian element in English language, 160; words with ini- tial sk, 151, 153; with final g or gg, 160. Solitude, Cowley's Essay on, 124, US- Spanish words in French, 136, 158. sphere-music, 59, 61. terminations, adjectival and par- ticipial, used irregularly, 88, in, 172; adjectival endings in el or le often changed to ed or sh, 133, 134; the ending ion in substantives treated as two syl- lables, 164. This was common in Tudor, and invariable in Mid- dle E. See Skeat's note on The Two Noble Kinsmen, p. 136. theown, obsolete idiom = 'its own,' 109. turquoise, why so called, 187. v foryin Southern dialects, 113. verbs, strong conjugation changing to weak, 135, 150, 151. w wrongly prefixed to h...« less