Milton, like so many of his contemporaries, kept a commonplacebook and, as you can imagine, he kept it for the most part in Latin.
和许多同代的人一样,弥尔顿,写一本普通的书,正如你所想象的,他所写那本书大部分是拉丁文。
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Actually we have Milton's commonplacebook, his reading notes, and you can find it all in English translation in volume one of The Complete Prose Works of John Milton.
I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplacebook and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.