It is doubtful if sales of Milton's epic would have been quite so robust had he used Paradise Closed Due to Bad Weather as his title.Nor indeed would his verse been improved with additional meteorological information:
Him the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire
Moderate depressions and slight drizzle
