THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;
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TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:

WILLIAM TEGG AND Co., 73, CHEAPSIDE.

M.DCCC.XLVIII.

J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY. •

To the Nightingale`.

On his being arrived at the age of Twenty-three

When the Assault was intended to the City

To a virtuous young Lady.

To the Lady Margaret Ley

On the Detraction which followed upon my writing

certain Treatises

To Mr. H. Lawes, on the publishing his Airs

On the religious Memory of Mrs. Thomson

To the Lord General Fairfax

To the Lord General Cromwell

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