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768. If Nature's blessings were equally distributed instead of being heaped upon a luxurious fewthen (as
Shakespeare says_King Lear_iv. 1. 73) "distribution should undo excessAnd each man have enough."
769. ~beseeming~suitable. The original sense of _seem_ is 'to be fitting' as in the words _beseem_ and
_seemly_.
770. ~lewdly-pampered~; one of Milton's most expressive compounds = wickedly gluttonous. _Lewd_ has
passed through several changes of meaning: (1) the lay-people as distinct from the clergy; (2) ignorant or
unlearned; and finally (2) base or licentious.
774. ~she no whit encumbered~_i.e._ Nature would not be in the least surcharged (as Comus represented in
l. 728). _No whit_used adverbially = not in the leastlit. 'not a particle.' Etymologically _aught_ = a whit
_naught_ = no whit.
776. ~His praise due paid~_i.e._ would be duly paid. On _due_see notel. 12. ~gluttony~: abstract for
concrete.
779. ~Crams~_i.e._ crams himself. There are many verbs in English that may be thus used reflexively
without having the pronoun expressed_e.g._ _feed__prepare__change__pour__press_etc.
780. ~enow~. 'Enow' conveys the notion of a numberas in early English: it is also spelt _anow_and in
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