"The nature and the simplicity of gentlemen and ladies, with their servants and furniture, I think is best observed by meals within doors."

"It will not do".

When they all sat down it was better.

Chapter VII

READING: 5.2.71–117.

"If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter."

All the world's a stage.

Oliver reports on Orlando's condition.

Jacques departs.

Act 5, scene 4.

Jacques' melancholy.

Act 2. Scene 7

Act 2 Scene 1. The Forest of Arden

Politicians continue to draw from Milton's pamphlet to support arguments for freedom of expression. In October 2018, the UK attorney general used the final lines of this paragraph to end his speech to a Conservative Party Conference. As The Conversation reported, 'To the delight of a packed audience, he reminded delegates of the “prize” of Brexit – in his view, to restore the “power” to make laws “to the sovereign parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”'.<br> https://youtu.be/Y__GkNPKqeQ?t=660

Milton's Areopagitica has attracted the attention of scholars for centuries, some of whom have compiled commentaries on words and passages. An example of this is Sir Richard Webb's Areopagitica (Cambridge UP, 1918), which provides the following commentary on this passage:

P. 5, l. 29. that part which preserves justly every man’s copy to himself.

A book, when licensed, was entered on the register of the Stationers’ Company, with the name of the printer or publisher. It was then the “copy” of the printer or publisher; i.e. he had the copyright. The Order of the Lords and Commons, June 14, 1643, provided against the infringement of such copyright: “And that no person or persons shall hereafter print, or cause to be reprinted any Book or Books, or part of Book, or Books heretofore allowed of and granted to the said Company of Stationers for their relief and maintenance of their poore, without the licence or consent of the Master, Wardens and Assistants of the said Company; Nor any Book or Books lawfully licenced and entred in the Register of the said Company for any particular member thereof, without the licence and consent of the owner or owners thereof. Nor yet import any such Book or Books, or part of Book or Books formerly Printed here, from beyond the Seas, upon paine of forfeiting the same to the Owner, or Owners of the Copies of the said Books, and such further punishment as shall be thought fit.” (Arber’s edn of Areopagitica, p. 27.)

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/milton-areopagitica-1644-jebb-ed

Milton's pamphlet takes it's title from Areopagitokas, a speech written by the Athenian orator Isocrates in the 4th century BC.

Compare with classic paintings: https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=76616

Henry Lawson's "The Drover's Wife" was first published in the Sydney Bulletin on 23 July 1892. Lawson revised this version when preparing While the Billy Boils (1896). He did this by cutting and pasting columns from the Bulletin. To see what Lawson (and others) did in revision, follow this link: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8554

Slab huts were the first shelters built by early European settlers. For other examples, see: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=32605636%40N06&view_all=1&text=slab%20hut

"The Hero Comes to Heorot" in Seamus Heaney's translation.

Kangaroo dog.

No, call ME Ishmael.