i better put this down before i forget: to look up usage of "pole" and "world" in early modern texts. that is, nowadays people use cosmopolitan and global to mean all over this world, the planet we're living on, but when milton used "world" he wasn't talking about the earth, but the entire order of things - what we'd think of as the universe now, harmonious heavens, not chaos. world, in the way we know understand it, would be global - in the literal sense of a globe, the great globe itself, spherical earth, spenser's glassie globe. actually i remember paul merton challenged on one episode of just a minute when derek nimmo said "how i love travelling around the cosmos!" and paul merton said, deviation, cosmos means you know, pluto and jupiter and intergalactic travel, and nicholas didn't allow it, because derek nimmo argued that cosmos meant world. and it does, but he is still wrong, because this earth is not "world."