355. ~leans~. As Milton frequently omits the nominative, we may supply _she_: otherwise _leans_ would be intransitive and its nominative 'head': see note, l. 715. ~fraught~, freighted, filled. _Freight_ is itself a later form of _fraught_: in _Sams. Agon._, 1075, _fraught_ is a noun (Ger. _fracht_, a load). See line 732. 356. ~What~, etc. The ellipses may be supplied thus: "What (shall be done) if (she be) in wild amazement?" 358. ~savage hunger~. 'Hunger' is put by synecdoche for hungry animals. 359. ~over-exquisite~, _i.e._ too curious, over-inquisitive. _Exquisite_ is here used in the sense of _inquisitive_; in modern English 'exquisite' has a passive sense only, while 'inquisitive' has an active sense (Lat. _quaero_, to seek): see note, l. 714. "The dialogue between the two brothers is an amicable contest between fact and philosophy. The younger draws his arguments from common apprehension, and the obvious appearance of things; the elder proceeds on a profounder knowledge, and argues from abstracted principles. Here the difference of their ages is properly made subservient to a contrast of character" (Warton). 360. ~To cast the fashion~, _i.e._ to prejudge the form. 'To cast' was common in the sense of to calculate or compute; see Shakespeare, ii. _Henry IV._ i. 1. 166, "You _cast_ the event of war." Some think, however, that the word has here its still more restricted sense as used in astrology, _e.g._ "to _cast_ a nativity"; others see in it a reference to the founder's art; and others to medical diagnosis. 361. ~Grant they be so~: a concessive clause = granted that the evils turn out to be what you imagined. The alternative is given in l. 364. 362. ~What need~, etc., _i.e._ why should a man anticipate his hour of sorrow. 'What' = for what (Lat. _quid_): comp. l. 752; also _On Shakespeare_, 6, "_What need'st_ thou such weak witness of thy name?" On the verb _need_ Abbott, § 297, says: "It is often found with 'what,' where it is sometimes hard to say whether 'what' is an adverb and 'need' a verb, or 'what' an adjective and 'need' a noun. 'What need the bridge much broader than the flood?' _M. Ado_, i. 1. 318; either '_why need_ the bridge (be) broader?' or '_what need_ is there (that) the bridge (be) broader?'" 363. Compare Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "rather bear those ills we have," etc.; and Pope's _Essay on Man_, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate," etc. 366. ~to seek~, at a loss. Compare _Par. Lost_, viii. 197: "Unpractised, unprepared, and still _to seek_." Bacon, in _Adv. of Learning_, has: "Men bred in learning are perhaps _to seek_ in points of convenience."