T was Your LORDSHIP's opinion and encouragement that occafioned the first appearing of this POEM in the folio edition, which from thence has been fo well received, that notwithstanding the price of it was four times greater than before, the fale increased double the number every year. The work is

ed; and I, having the honour to hear Your LORDSHIP fay, that a fmaller edition of it would be grateful to the world, immediately refolved upon printing it in this volume, of which I most humbly beg Your acceptance, from,

My LORD,

Your LORDSHIP'S

ever obliged Servant.

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IN

PARADISUM AMISSA M,

SUMMI POETÆ.

JOHANNIS MILTONI

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UI legis AMISSAM PARADISUM, grandia Magni Carmina MILTONI, quid nifi cun&ta legis? Res cun&tas, & cun&tarum primordia rerum

Et fata, & fines, continet ifte liber.

Intima panduntur magni penetralia mundi,
Scribitur & toto quicquid in orbe latet;

Terræque, tractufque maris, cælumque profundum,
Sulphureumque EREBI, flammivomumqe fpecus;
Quæque colunt terras, pontumque,& TARTARICæca;
Quæque colunt fummi lucida regna poli:
Et quodcunque ullis conclufum eft finibus ufquam,
Et fine fine CHAOS, & fine fine DEUS:
Et fine fine magis, fi quid magis est fine fine,
In CHRISTO erga homines conciliatus amor.
Hæc qui fperaret, quis crederet effe futura?

Et tamen hæc hodie terra BRITANNA legit.
O quantos in bella Duces! que protulit arma!
Quæ canit & quanta prælia dira tuba!
Cœleftis acies! atque in certamine cœlum !
Et quæ cœleftes pugna deceret agros!
Quantus in æthereis tollit fe LUCIFER armis !
Atque ipfo graditur vix MICHELE minor!
Quantis, & quam funeftis concurritur iris,
Dum ferus hic ftellas protegit, ille rapit!

Dum vulfos montes ceu tela reciproqua, torquent,
Et non mortali defuper igne pluunt :
Stat dubius cui fe parti concedat OLYMPUS,
Et metuit pugnæ non fupereffe fuæ.
At fimul in cœlis MESSIE infignia fulgent,
Et currus animes, armaque digna DEO,
Horrendumque rote ftrident, & fæva rotarum
Erumpunt torvis fulgura luminibus,

Et flammæ vibrant, & vera tonitrua rauco
Admiftis flammis infonuere polo:

Excidit attonitis mens omnis, & impetus omnis,
Et caffis dextris irrita tela cadunt

t;

Ad pœnas fugiunt, & ceu foret ORCUS afylum,
Infernis certant condere fe tenebris.

Cedite ROMANI fcriptores, cedite GRAII,
Et quos fama recens vel celebravit annus.
Hæc quicunque leget tantum cecinisse putabit
MEONIDEM Ranas, VIRGILIUM Culices.

;

SAM. BARROW, M. D.