PARADISE LOST,

A

POEM,

IN

TWELVE BOOKS.

THE LAST EDITION,

Printed for DAVID, junior, Upon the
Austins-friers-Key.

M. DCC. LIV.

280.0.792.

*

To the Right Honorable

John Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham.

MY LORD,

IT was Your LORDSHIP'S opinion and encouragement that occafion'd the first appearing of this Poem in the Folio Edition, which from thence has been fo well receiv'd, that notwithstanding the price of it was four ti