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POEM,

IN

FOUR BOOK S.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

SAMSON AGONISTES;

AND

POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,
WITH A TRACTATE OF
EDUCAΤΙΟΝ.

THE AUTHOR.

JOHN MILTON.

GLASGOW,

Printed and fold by ROBERT & ANDREW FOULIS

M.DCC.LXV.

RB23 8150

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DAradise regain'd, Book 1, 2, 3, 4

Samfon Agonistes.

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On the death of a fair infant, dying of a cough.

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On Time.

On Shakespear.

At a vacation exercise in the College.

The Paffion.

Upon the Circumcifion.

At a folemn musick.

Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.

Song on May morning.

On the University-Carrier.

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On the new forcers of conscience.

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Ad Pyrrham. Ode V.

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The fifth Ode of Horace, Lib. I. English'd.

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Sonnets.

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Pfalms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.80.81, 82, 83, 84, 85,

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REGAIN'D.

BOOK I.,

Who ere while the happy garden fung,..
By one man's disobedience lost, now fing
Recover'd paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness.

Thou spirit who ledst this glorious eremite
Into the defart, his victorious field
Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted fong else mute,
And bear through height or depth of nature's bounds
With profperous wing full fumm'd to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in fecret done,
And unrecorded left through many an age,
Worthy t'have not remain'd so long unfung.

Now had the great proclaimer with a voice More awful than the found of trumpet, cry'd Repentance, and heaven's kingdom nigh at hand To all baptiz'd: to his great baptifm flock'd With awe the regions round, and with them came From Nazareth the fon of Joseph deem'd To the flood Jordan came, as then obfcure, Unmark'd, unknown; but him the baptift foon A

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