Three Poets in three distant Ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn; The First in loftiness of Thought surpass'd: The Next in Majesty, in both the Last. The force of Nature could no farther go: To make a Third she joynd the former Two.
Dryden.
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POEM,
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TWELVE BOOKS.
The AUTHOR
JOHN MILTON.
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