Milton's Lycidas

In a Dublin edition of Milton's *Paradise Lost* (1765), in a memoir prefixed I find the following explanation of than rather obscure passage in *Lycidas*:— "Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." "This poem is not all made up of sorrow and tenderness, there is a mixture of satire and indignation: for in part of it, the poet taketh occasion to inveigh against the corruptions of the clergy, and seemeth to have first discovered his acrimony against Arb. Laud, and to h…