sheets from my sister, Mrs. P. A. Barnett, who has
ungrudgingly put at the service of this book both time and
eyesight. In taking leave of it, I may be permitted to say that it
has cost more of both these inestimable treasures than I had
anticipated. The last proof reaches me just a year after the first,
and the progress of the work has not in the interval been
interrupted. In tenui labor et tenuis gloria. Nevertheless I cannot
be sorry it was undertaken.

H. C. B.

YATTENDON RECTORY,
November 8, 1899.



Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Title page of 1645 edition
follows:


POEMS
OF
Mr John Milton,
BOTH
ENGLISH and LATIN
Compos'd at several times.
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Printed by his true copies.
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The SONGS were set in Musick by