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Paradife regain'd, Book 1, 2, 3, 4.

Samfon Agonistes.

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Lycidas. In this monody the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish feas, 1637.

L'Allegro.

Il Penferofo.

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Arcades. Part of an entertainment prefented to the ·Countess Dowager of Derby..

On the morning of Christ's nativity.

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

At a vacation exercife in the College.

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On the University-Carrier.

At a folemn musick.

Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.

Song on May morning.

On Shakespear.

On the new forcers of conscience.

Ad Pyrrham. Ode V.

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

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REGA I N' D.

BOOK I.

Who ere while the happy garden fung,
By one man's disobedience loft, now fing
Recover'd paradife 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 ledft 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, infpire,
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 fo 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 baptism flock'd
With awe the regions round, and with them came
From Nazareth the fon of Jofeph deem'd
To the flood Jordan came, as then obfcure,
Unmark'd, unknown; but him the baptist foon
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