It's as if Milton places the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare into the mouth of this evil magician so as to dismiss all the more easily the easy, L'Allegro-mode of poetry that Shakespeare seems for Milton to embody.

这就好像弥尔顿把莎士比亚美丽的诗句,放进了邪恶魔术师的口中,所以可以更容易地反驳，好像莎士比亚把L’Allegro模式诗给弥尔顿去具体化。

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