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POEM,

IN

TWELVE BOOK S.

The AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

The SIXTH EDITION.

With NOTES of various AUTHORS,
By THOMAS NEWTON, D.D.

VOLUME the FIRST.

LONDON:

Printed for 7. and R. Tonfon, B. Dodd, H. IVocdfall, J. Rivington,
R. Baldivin, T. Longman, L. Hawes, Clark and Collins, E. Dilly,
T. Caflon, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and the Executors of 7. Ri-
chardfen.

MDCCLXIII.

116 1912

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MY LORD,

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ILTON himself prefixed no Dedication to the PARADISE LOST; for he defigned it, not for a fingle patron, but for the wife and learned of all ages. However feveral of the later editions have been infcribed to Lord Sommers, as a great admirer and encourager of this work and indeed such a poem should be addressed only to the moft worthy, to Lord Sommers, or One like Him a judge and patron of arts, and illuftrious both in the commonwealth of men and the commonwealth of letters.

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