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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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single or combin'd.

V. 339. To single or combin'd; Let us not suspect our happy State, to be left so imperfect and ill assured by God our wise Creator, as not to be safe and out of danger, when attempted ei|ther alone or together. Singulus, Lat. one. Combin'd, of Combinare, Lat. to joyn toge|ther.

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

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