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SAMSON AGONISTES,

A DRAMATIC POEM.

THE AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

Τραγῳδία μίμησις πράξεως σπουδαίας, &c.
Aristot. Poet. cap. vi.

VOL. III.

Tragoedia est imitatio actionis seriæ, &c. per misericordiam et metum perficiens talium affectuum lustrationem.

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POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

WITH A MEMOIR.

VOL. III.

Perennis
et

Fragrans.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1866.

McN

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:

WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDGE.

SAMSON AGONISTES..
Comus, a Mask.....
Lycidas..

L'Allegro
Il Penseroso
Arcades

......

CONTENTS.

The Passion.

On Time......

VOL. III.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS :

On the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough... 154

At a Vacation Exercise in the College..

158

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165

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186

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity..

The Hymn..

Upon the Circumcision....

At a Solemn Music....

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester....
Song. On May Morning..

An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatic Poet W.
Shakespeare.

On the University Carrier..

Another on the same.....

Fragments of Translations...

SONNETS:

Epigram on Salmasius's Hundreda.

On the new Forcers of Conscience under the Long

Parliament.....

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123

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148

I. To the Nightingale..........

II. 'Donna leggiadra, il cui bel nome honora.'.

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