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murmur

formerly, to defame a judge.

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Second Treatise on Government
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Satan, like the sonnet's murmurer, makes God out to be an exacting, power-hungry tyrant who "no difference, no exemption," "nor exception hath declar'd," but "pronounc't glory he exacts" (PR III.

Satan, like the sonnet's murmurer, slanders God by "murmuring" and charges a Maker who "exacts" glory from his subjects as the God of the sonnet's octave "exacts day-labour" (PR III.

The patience to prevent that murmur: the theodicy of John Milton's nineteenth sonnet

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