vanveen
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I am puzzled by the following passage in John Milton's masque Comus – maybe someone here could help me understand it:
Enjoy your deer Wit, and gay Rhetorick
That hath so well been taught her dazling fence,
Thou art not fit to hear thy self convinc't;
Yet should I try, the uncontrouled worth
Of this pure cause would kindle my rap't spirits
To such a flame of sacred vehemence,
That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize.
(This is the Lady, the protagonist of masque, warding off Comus's attempts to seduce her).
I don't understand what "the uncontrouled worth of this pure cause" means in the context and what the verb "try" refers to. Should she try – what?
Thank you in advance.
Enjoy your deer Wit, and gay Rhetorick
That hath so well been taught her dazling fence,
Thou art not fit to hear thy self convinc't;
Yet should I try, the uncontrouled worth
Of this pure cause would kindle my rap't spirits
To such a flame of sacred vehemence,
That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize.
(This is the Lady, the protagonist of masque, warding off Comus's attempts to seduce her).
I don't understand what "the uncontrouled worth of this pure cause" means in the context and what the verb "try" refers to. Should she try – what?
Thank you in advance.