THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

INTERSPERSED WITH

TRANSLATIONS AND CRITICAL REMARKS,

BY

CHARLES SYMMONS, D. D.

OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET,

FOR J. JOHNSON; NICHOLS AND SON; F. AND C. RIVINGTON;
OTRIDGE AND SON; T. PAYNE; OGILVY AND SON; CUTHELL
AND MARTIN; VERNOR AND HOOD; R. LEA; J. WALKER;
CLARKE AND SON; J. STOCKDALE; LACKINGTON AND CO.;
LONGMAN AND CO.; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. HARDING;
R. H. EVANS; J. MAWMAN; J. HATCHARD; AND MATHEWS

AND LEIGH.

THE

LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON.

Si tyrannos insector, quid hoc ad reges? quos ego a tyrannis longissimè sejungo

Defen. secund.

Nunc sub fœderibus coeant felicibus unà
Libertas, et jus sacri inviolabile sceptri:
Rege sub AUGUSTO fas sit laudare CATONEM.

DR. GEORGE,

To the memory of

my most dear and accomplished Son,

CHARLES SYMMONS,

by the co-operation of whose fine mind and perfect taste
I have been largely benefitted as a writer,

and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues,
the sources of much of my past happiness,
I am indebted for all my present consolation,
I inscribe

THIS LIFE OF MILTON;

under his eye,

which, as it grew and was favoured with his regard, cannot be without value in my partial estimation.

On the 23d of May, 1805,

before he had completed his twenty-second year, he was torn from my affection and my hopes, experiencing from his God,

in requital of a pure life,

the mercy of an early death.

a

CHARLES SYMMONS.