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[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> quick search here ... okay, @ lines 130-1 ...
> 
> But that two-handed engine at the door
> Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
> 
> See, e.g., http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/milton2.html.
> Yeah, I know, St. Michael's sword in Paradise Lost (er, Book VI, line
> 251?) but ...

but what? what is that two handed engine? A sword? I always
thought it was a trumpet.