I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为,笔记书中的形象,和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象,是有联系的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Actually we have Milton's commonplace book, his reading notes, and you can find it all in English translation in volume one of The Complete Prose Works of John Milton.

事实上我们有弥尔顿的那本普通的书，他的阅读笔记，你们可以找到完全的英译本,在弥尔顿全部散文作品的第一卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选