680. 'Nature gave you your beautiful person to be held in trust on certain conditions, of which the most obligatory is that the body should have refreshment after toil, ease after pain. Yet this very condition you disregard, and deal harshly with yourself by refusing my proferred glass at a time when you are in need of food and rest.' Comp. Shakespeare, _Son._ iv. "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy," etc. 685. ~unexempt condition~, _i.e._ a condition binding on all and at all times, a law of human nature. 687. ~mortal frailty~, _i.e._ weak mortals: abstract for concrete. 688. ~That~. The antecedent of this relative is _you_, l. 682. See note, l. 2. 689. ~timely~, seasonable. So 'timeless' = unseasonable (Scott's _Marmion_, iii. 223, "gambol rude and _timeless_ joke"): comp. _Son._ ii. 8, "_timely_-happy spirits"; and l. 970. 693. ~Was this ... abode~? The verb is singular, because 'cottage' and 'safe abode' convey one idea: see Comus's words, l. 320. Notice also that the past tense is used as referring to the past act of telling. 694. ~aspects~: accent on final syllable. 695. ~oughly-headed~: so spelt in Milton's MS. = ugly-headed. _Ugly_ is radically connected with _awe_. 698. ~with visored falsehood and base forgery~. A vizor (also spelt _visor_, _visard_, _vizard_) is a mask, "a false face." The allusion is to Comus's disguise: see l. 166. _With_ in this line, as in lines 672 and 700, denotes _by means of_. 700. ~liquorish baits~: see note on _baited_, l. 162. 'Liquorish,' by catachresis for _lickerish_ = tempting to the appetite, causing one to _lick_ one's lips. The student should carefully distinguish the three words _lickerish_ (as above), _liquorish_ (which is really meaningless) and _liquorice_ (= licorice = Lat. _glycyrrhiza_), a plant with a sweet root. 702. ~treasonous~; an obsolete word. The current form 'treasonable' has usually a more restricted sense: Milton and Shakespeare use _treasonous_ in the more general sense of _traitorous_ (a cognate word). In this line 'offer' = the thing offered. 703. ~good men ... good things~. This noble sentiment Milton has borrowed from Euripides, _Medea_, 618, Κακοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δῶρ᾽ ὄνησιν οὐκ ἔχει, "the gifts of the bad man are without profit." (Newton). 704. ~that which is not good~, etc. This is Platonic: the soul has a rational principle and an irrational or appetitive, and when the former controls the latter, the desires are for what is good only (_Rep._ iv. 439).