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690 general literature and science Paraphrase and annotate these extracts Officious and not valiant you have shamed me In your condemned seconds δ Your virtue is To make him worthy whose offence subdues him And curse that justice did it If you see this in the map of my microcosm follows it that am known well enough too What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character if be known well enough too Seld shown flamens Do press among the popular throngs and puff To win vulgar station Such pother As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers And gave him graceful posture And his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who having been supple and courteous to the people bonneted without any further deed to have them at all into their estimation and report You are plebeians If they be senators and they no less When both your voices blended the great'st taste Most palates theirs Explain these phrases this bosom multiplied-clean kam-to have his worth of contradiction-a dissension of doit-full of vent-confined in an auger's bore-his injury the gaoler to his pity Give sketch of Milton's life with dates down to 1639 What poem best represents this period How does it so Show how exactly L1 Allegro and II Penseroso inter- correspond and that neither poem contains Milton's ideal exclusively 10 Mention any words and phrases in Milton's earlier poems that require explanation and explain them