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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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asperses

V. 296. Asperses with Dishonour; Casts a Disgrace and Disesteem upon the Person tempted, for the Temptation presupposes him, Illegible word whom the Tryal's made, weak and infirm, and liable to be prevailed on. Asperses, Aspergere, Lat. to bespatter.

Hume, Patrick. "Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost wherein the texts of sacred writ, relating to the poem, are quoted, the parallel places and imitations of the most excellent Homer and Virgil, cited and compared, all the obscure parts by P.H. ..." Bodleian Library 2(1695):321. Early English Books Online. Web. 16 October 2014.
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IX.279 - IX.566

Related:  surmise prov'd false,  Reason he made right,  Reason he made right,  not free, absents thee more,  And what is Faith, Love, Vertue unassaid [ 335 ],  Some Spacious object,  But that thou shouldst my firmness therfore doubt,  For such thou art, from sin and blame entire:,  Heav'n,  Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve,,  single or combin'd.,  Nothing imperfet or deficient left [ 345 ],  done his part,,  misthought,  Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare,  labour to avert,  without exterior help sustaind?,  Sticks no dishonor on our Front, but turns [ 330 ],  Alone,  Firm we subsist,,  Thou sever not:,  and still erect,,  Persisted, yet submiss,  wouldst resent,  In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe,,  the Patriarch of Mankinde,  Vertue,  Faith,  submiss,  specious,  Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear?,  Eden,  fervently,  approve,  Access in every Vertue, in thy sight [ 310 ],  guile,  God or thee,,  domestick Adam,  But God left free the Will, for what obeyes,  Go; for thy stay,... (line 372-4),  though last