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702 INGLIS SCHOLARSHIPS Criticize the said Scheme and compare it or contrast it with any others of which you know anything At what time and with what immediate purpose and with what results immediate and subsequent was the Areopa- gitica written Interpret the word Areopagitica and illustrate it from the work so called Mention other examples of the passion for Greek book-titles in Milton's age State the leading arguments of the Areopagitica and indicate the manner in which each is pursued Carefully explain these passages and connect them with their context know they are as lively and as vigorously produc- tive as those fabulous dragon's teeth Or if it were for his broad verses they were not therein so cautious but they were as dissolute in their promiscuous conversing And why not then of Morgante an Italian romance much to the same purpose And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil that is to say of knowing good by evil And ask Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal Keri that Moses and all the prophets cannot persuade him to pronounce the textual Chetiv name not him for posterities sake whom Henry the named in merriment his Vicar of Hell What more national corruption for which England hears ill abroad than household gluttony What advantage is it to be man over it is to be boy if we have only scapt the ferular to come under the fescue of an Imprimatur Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards Not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct and his four nobles of Danegelt