With NOTES of various AUTHORS, By THOMAS NEWTON, D.D. VOLUME the FIRST. LONDON: Printed for F. and R. Tonfon, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, M DCC LXII. EARL of BATH. MY LORD, M1 ILTON himself prefixed no Dedication to the PARADISE LOST; for he defigned it, not for a fingle patron, but for the wife and learned of all ages. However feveral of the later editions have been infcribed to Lord Sommers, as a great admirer and encourager of this work: and indeed such a poem fhould be addressed only to the most worthy, to Lord Sommers, or One like Him a judge and patron of arts, and illuftrious both in the commonwealth of men and the commonwealth of letters. A 2 But |