401. ~Danger will wink on~, etc., _i.e._ danger will shut its eyes to an opportunity. To _wink on_ or _wink at_ is to connive, to refuse to see something: comp. _Macbeth_, i. 4. 52, "The eye _wink_ at the hand"; _Acts_, xvii. 30. Warton notes a similar argument by Rosalind in _As You Like It_, i. 3. 113: "Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold." 403. ~surrounding~. Milton is said to be the first author of any note who uses this word in its current sense of 'encompassing,' which it has acquired through a supposed connection with _round_. Shakespeare does not use it. Its original sense is 'to overflow' (Lat. _superundare_). 404. ~it recks me not~, _i.e._ I do not heed: an impersonal use of the old verb _reck_ (A.S. _récan_, to care). Comp. _Lyc._ 122, "What _recks_ it them." 405. ~dog them both~, _i.e._ follow closely upon night and loneliness. Comp. _All's Well_, iii. 4. 15, "death and danger _dogs_ the heels of worth." 407. ~unownèd~, _i.e._ 'thinking her to be unowned,' or 'as if unowned.' Milton thus, as in Latin, frequently condenses a clause into a participle. 408. ~infer~, reason, argue. This use of the word is obsolete. See Shakespeare, iii. _Hen. VI._ ii. 2. 44, "_Inferring_ arguments of mighty force"; _K. John_, iii. 1. 213, "Need must needs _infer_ this principle": also _Par. Lost_, viii. 91, "great or bright _infers_ not excellence." 409. ~without all doubt~, _i.e._ beyond all doubt: a Latinism = _sine omni dubitatione_. 411. ~arbitrate the event~, judge of the result. The meaning is 'Where the result depends equally upon circumstances to be hoped and to be dreaded I incline to hope.' 413. ~squint suspicion~. Compare Quarles: "Heart-gnawing Hatred, and squint-eyed Suspicion." To look askance or sideways frequently indicates suspicion. 419. ~if Heaven gave it~, _i.e._ even _although_ Heaven gave it. 420. ~'Tis chastity~. "The passage which begins here and ends at line 475 is a concentrated expression of the moral of the whole Masque, and an exposition also of a cardinal idea of Milton's philosophy" (Masson). 421. ~clad in complete steel~, _i.e._ completely armed; comp. _Hamlet_, i. 4. 52, where the phrase occurs. The accent is on the first syllable. 422. ~quivered nymph~. The chaste Diana of the Romans was armed with bow and quiver; and Shakespeare makes virginity "Diana's livery." So in Spenser, Belphoebe, the personification of Chastity, has "at her back a bow and quiver gay." 'Quivered' is the Latin _pharetrata_. 423. ~trace~, traverse, track. ~unharboured~, affording no shelter. Radically, a harbour is a lodging or shelter. 424. ~Infámous~, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism. The word now implies disgrace or guilt. It is here accented on the penult. 425. ~sacred rays~: comp. l. 782.