LONDON: BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 280. n n 477. CONTENT S. On the Death of a Fair Infant dying At a Vacation Exercise in the Col- On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 8 An - Epitaph on the Marchioness of A Song I. 'Look, nymphs, and shep- Song II. "O'er the smooth en- 38 XXXII.2 KATA ITYZKI DO 11K221 10381 .. TYYT PAGE PARADISE REGAINED. I7YIYI Book I. IIIVEZZI I. 367 Book II. Book JII. • TT 395 Book IV. 10 408 SAMSON AGONISTES 427 SONNETS AND CANZONE. To the Nightingale 477 Canzone 478 On His being arrived at the Age of Twenty-three 2480 When the Assault was intended to the City 481 To a Virtuous Young Lady. 481 To the Lady Margaret Ley 482 On the Detraction which followed upon My Writing Certain Trea- tises 483 On the Same 483 To Mr. H. Lawes, on the Publishing His Airs 484 On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson 485 To the Lord General Fairfax 485 To the Lord General Cromwell 486 To Sir Henry Vane the Younger 487 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 487 On His Blindness 488 To Mr. Lawrence 489 To Cyriac Skinner 489 To the Same 490 On His Deceased Wife 491 MISCELLANEOUS POEM AND TRANSLATIONS On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament 492 The Fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I. 493 From Geoffrey of Monmouth 493 From Dante 494 From Ariosto 494 From Horace 494 From Horace 495 From Euripides 496 Fron) Horace 495 From Sophocles 495 From Seneca 496 From Homer 496 (1 2 Psalm 1. Done into Verse, 1653 497 Psalm II. Aug 8th, 1653. Terzette 497 Hamburgæ agentes, Pastoris Psalm II. Aug. 9, 1653. . When 498 Eleg. V. Anno Ætatis 20. In Ad. 500 Eleg. VI. Ad Carolum Deodatum Psalm VI. Aug. 13, 1653 502 542 Eleg. VII. Anno Ætatis ig : 545 the Words of Chush the Benja- 502 EPIGRAMMATUM LIBER. In Proditionem Bombardicam 548 Psalm LXXXVI. 551 518 Ad Christinam Suecorum Reginam, 520 521 JOANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS POE- In Obitum Procancellarii, Medici. MATA 525 553 JOANNI MILTONI LONDINENSI.--ELE- In Obitum Præsulis Eliensis. Anno Aristoteles Intellexit 564 tum Præconis Academici, Can- Ad Patrem 565 tabrigiensis 532 Ad Salsillum, Poetam Romanum, Eleg. III. Anno ætatis 17. In Ægrotantem 568 Obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis 533 Mansus 570 Eleg. IV. Anno Ætatis 18. Ad Epitaphium Damonis 573 Thomam Junium præceptorem Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis suum,apud mercatores Anglicos Academia Bibliothecarium 579 . PREFATORY MEMOIR OF MILTON. The great epic Poet of England was born at a period of change and political agitation, which gave a variety of incident to his life not often found in those of students and writers. John Milton was born December 9th, 1608, between six and seven in the morning, at the “Spread Eagle,” in Bread Street, Londonnot a tavern, as our non-antiquarian readers might suppose, but his father's own house, distinguished by the sign of his armorial bear. ings, as were the houses of even the nobility at that period, when dwellings were not numbered. 1 Milton was the son of John Milton, a gentleman by descent, whose ancestors had formerly possessed Milton, near Thame, in Oxfordshire; but this property they had forfeited during the Wars of the Roses, and the family had ceased to be Milton“ of that ilk' for more than a hundred years. Milton's grandfather (also a John Milton), keeper of the forest of Shotover, was a bigoted Papist. He sent his son John to Christ Church, Oxford, for education, but the youth there imbibed the principles of the Reformation, and was consequently disinherited by his father. Compelled to work for his living, John Milton adopted the profession of a Scrivener, which he practised at the "Spread Eagle," in Bread Street. He was a man of great ability, a classical scholar, and a good musician, and highly respected in his profession. He married Sarah Caston, the daughter of a Welsh gentleman. On December 9th, 1608, she became, as we have said, the mother of a son who was destined to immortalize the name of his parents. We will here' let Milton speak of his own childhood :-“ My a |
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