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To the Right Honorable

John Lord Sommers,

Baron of Evesham.

MY LORD,

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T was Your LORDSHIP's opinion and encouragement that occafion'd the first appearing of this Poem in the Folio Edition, which from thence has been fo well receiv'd, that notwithstanding the price of it was four

times greater than before, the fale increas'd'double the number every year. The Work is now generally known and esteem'd; and I having the honor to hear Your LORDSHIP fay, that a smaller edition of it would be grateful to the world, immediately refolv'd upon printing it in this volume, of which I most humbly beg Your acceptance, from,

My LORD,

Your Lordship's

ever obliged fervant.

THE LIFE OF

Mr. JOHN MILTON.

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