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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

A

POEM,

IN

TWELVE BOOK S.

The AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. Tonfon and S. Draper, A. Ward, S. Birt, C. Hitch, B. Dod, J. Hutton, R. Wellington, J. Brindley, J. Ofwald, and J. New.

M DCC XLVI,

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