In these he puts two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam." "Paradise Lost," iv. 496. 193 --_And now,_ &c. "And now all heaven Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspread; Had not th' Almighty Father, where he sits ... foreseen." --"Paradise Lost," vi. 669. 194 --_Gerenian Nestor._ The epithet _Gerenian_ either refers to the name of a place in which Nestor was educated, or merely signifies honoured, revered. See Schol. Venet. in II. B. 336; Strabo, viii. p. 340. 195 --_Ćgae, Helice._ Both these towns were conspicuous for their worship of Neptune. 196 --_As full blown,_ &c. "Il suo Lesbia quasi bel fior succiso, E in atto si gentil languir tremanti Gl' occhi, e cader siu 'l tergo il collo mira." Gier. Lib. ix. 85. 197 --_Ungrateful,_ because the cause in which they were engaged was unjust. "Struck by the lab'ring priests' uplifted hands The victims fall: to heav'n they make their pray'r, The curling vapours load the ambient air. But vain their toil: the pow'rs who rule the skies Averse beheld the ungrateful sacrifice." Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi. 527, sqq. 198 "As when about the silver moon, when aire is free from winde, And stars shine cleare, to whose sweet beams high prospects on the brows Of all steepe hills and pinnacles thrust up themselves for shows, And even the lowly valleys joy to glitter in their sight; When the unmeasured firmament bursts to disclose her light, And all the signs in heaven are seene, that glad the shepherd's heart."