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- Mar 2019
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gre.kmf.com gre.kmf.com
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it seems probable that at one period the ancient Egyptians consumed cultivated grain in the form of beer only.
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academic.eb.com academic.eb.com
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a modified form of English used as a trade language between the British and the Chinese
definition
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- Oct 2018
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www.dartmouth.edu www.dartmouth.eduComus: Text15
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Co. Were they of manly prime, or youthful bloom? La. As smooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips. [ 290 ]
indicating that her brothers were still very young (even haven't got their facial hair)
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Night hath better sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wak'ns Love. Com let us our rights begin
night should not be used for sleeping but rather for pursuing one’s desires. does this stanza implicitly refer to sexual conduct?
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And, as the old Swain said, she can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the numming spell, If she be right invok't in warbled Song, For maid'nhood she loves, and will be swift [ 855 ] To aid a Virgin, such as was her self In hard besetting need, this will I try And adde the power of som adjuring verse
Sabrina is invoked by song and only help those with maidenhood
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timely rest have wanted, but fair Virgin This will restore all soo
timely "rest" (indulgence in sexual pleasure) won't influence virginity? (virginity will restore soon?)
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To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst. Why should you be so cruel to your self, And to those dainty limms which nature lent [ 680 ] For gentle usage, and soft delicacy?
the Lady should let out her desire freely, which is lent by "nature" for gentle usage and soft delicacy
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Shall I go on? Or have I said anough? To him that dares [ 780 ] Arm his profane tongue with contemptuous words Against the Sun-clad power of Chastity, Fain would I somthing say, yet to what end?
Comus is not a good audience to talk about chastity with.
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That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps o're thy false head
if Comus can accept (sympathize with) what I said about chastity, the earth will shake. (meaning it's possible)
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lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoick Furr, And fetch their precepts from the Cynick Tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence
criticizing the doctrines of the Stoics and cynicism (pursue abstinence and restraints of desire)
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Alas good ventrous youth, I love thy courage yet and bold Emprise
satire
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Vertue may be assail'd, but never hurt, Surpriz'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd
the elder brothers still firmly believe in virtue (virginity): virginity may be threatened but won't be hurt and enchanted
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Longer I durst not stay, but soon I guess't Ye were the two she mean't, with that I sprung Into swift flight, till I had found you here
the Spirit did not save the Lady on his own, but turn to look for the two brothers "she meant"
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With many murmurs mixt, whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks, And the inglorious likenes of a beast
the "magical water" in the cup will transform the drinkers' appearance into beasts (just appearance? or further denoting that the bestial desire in human nature is aroused?)
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Vertue could see to do what vertue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea sunk.
virtue will guide virtuous man what to do? (so no worries about sister cuz she's chaste)
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SONG.
the Lady's singing in the woods
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Break off, break off, I feel the different pace, [ 145 ] Of som chast footing neer about this ground.
chast footing: the Lady (characterized by her chastity)
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