After all, this is an extremely pious Puritan. But as late as the 1640s, this was not at all the epic subject that Milton was intending to use.

不管怎么说，弥尔顿是个很虔诚的清教徒，但是到了17世纪，40年代的时候，弥尔顿都根本没想过要写这个主题。

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