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A Poem,

IN TWELVE BOOKS,

BY

JOHN MILTON.

Three Poets in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn;
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,
The next in dignity, in both the last,
The force of nature could no further go
To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Dryden.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:

SEPTIMUS PROWET T.