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When Charlemain

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.

Charlemain was King of France and Emperour of Germany, who abou the Year 800, undertook a War against the Sacrons in Spain where Aigoland Bellingan Marsiles and Idnabula had erected feveral petty Kingdoms; these joined against Charlemain, who in his Royal Army had with him, Milton Count of Angiers his Brother-In Law, Romland his Nephew, Renaud of Montauban, Roger the Dane, Arnold of terate Age, confounded their Story, and cover'd it with much Confusion and Obscurity.
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Related:  or Romance,  remorse,  considerate Pride Waiting revenge,  Begirt,  Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,  but half his foe,  Shorn of his Beams,  to have thir lot in pain,  Deep scars of Thunder had,  Thir Glory witherd,  griesly,  Myriads,  auxiliar,  Space may produce new Worlds,  Alcairo,  New rub'd with Baum,  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother,  th' event,  Hateful to utter,  Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,,  Distends with pride,  Ausonian,  Babel,  imbodied,  Browes,  awful,  As when the Sun,  Cressets,  Stands on the blasted Heath,  Mulciber,  attention held them mute,  scurff,  Baptiz'd or Infidel,  As when Heavens Fire,  bossy Sculptures,  Seraphic Lords and Cherubim,  wing'd with speed,  Memphian,  Hurling defiance,  Pigmean Race,  they relate,  Sits Arbitress,  Monarch in Heav'n,  but what power of mind,  Pioners,  Aspramont,  Sat on his faded cheek,  Horizontal misty Air,  Uthers,  Armoric,  for his fault,  The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,  when Ægypt with Assyria strove,  Fontarabbia,  Theb's,  conclave,  How such united force of Gods, how such,  Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.,  He spake,  who overcomes By force,  Pandæmonium,  Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks,  fame,  fretted Gold,  impious,  Perplexes Monarchs,  Could merit more,  Warr'd on by Cranes,  about the Hive [ 770 ] In clusters,  shall fail to re-ascend,  Monuments of Fame,  cruel his eye,  Sovran,  repulse,  Bullion,  ribs of Gold,  assayd,  custome,  Biserta,  Thir visages,  Mammon,  downward bent,  Of dauntless courage,  beatific,  From wing to wing, and half enclose him round,  presaging,  Thither,  Naphtha,  Cherubim,  his Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at full,  in Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover,  Which tempted our attempt,  That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,  Was not inglorious,  Ilium,  Self-rais'd, and repossess,  Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes,  hardening in this strength glories,  In shape and gesture proudly eminent,  dim Eclips,  Eternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revolt,  Babilon,  testifies,  intrencht,  and what resounds,  upheld by old repute,  All her Original brightness,  these beyond Compare of mortal prowess,  Stood like a Towr,  puissant,  Brigad,  Tears such as Angels weep,  Brusht with the hiss of russling wings,  Doric,  amerc't,  Paynim,  some belated Peasant,  veins of liquid fire,  thir stately growth,  Peerage,  Belus or Serapis,  Phlegra,  guile,  Words interwove