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. 2 IN PARADISUM AMISSA M, SUMMI POETÆ. JOHANNIS MILTONI Ο 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, Terræque, tractufque maris, cælumque profundum, Et tamen hæc hodie terra BRITANNA legit. Dum vulfos montes ceu tela reciproqua, torquent, Et flammæ vibrant, & vera tonitrua rauco Excidit attonitis mens omnis, & impetus omnis, t; Ad pœnas fugiunt, & ceu foret ORCUS afylum, Cedite ROMANI fcriptores, cedite GRAII, ; SAM. BARROW, M. D. |