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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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surmise prov'd false

V. 333. From his Surmise prov'd false; From his Opinion of us mistaken, of Surmise, Fr. an old disused word.

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