By faving doctrin, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, 475 480 Riches are needless then, both for themselves, PARADISE REGAIN'D. BOOK III. So fpake the Son of God, and Satan ftood 5 A while as mute confounded what to fay, What to reply, confuted and convinc'd Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift; At length collecting all his ferpent wiles, With foothing words renew'd, him thus accosts. I fee thou know'ft what is of ufe to know, What best to say canft say, to do canft do; Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart 10 10. thy heart Contains of good, wife, juft, the perfect shape.] Milton, no doubt, by the word shape intended to exprefs the meaning of the Greek term dea, but in my opinion it does not at all come up to it, and seems rather harsh and inelegant. There are words in all languages, which cannot well be tranflated without lofing much of their beauty, and even fome of their meaning; of this fort I take the word idea to be. Tully renders it by the Contains word species with as little fuccefs in De |