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FOUR BOOK S.

To which is added

SAMSON AGONISTES:

AND

POEMS upon SEVERAL OCCASIONS,
With a Tractate of EDUCATION.

THE AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON and S. DRAPER;
And for T. and T. LONGMAN, S. BIRT, C. HITCH and
L. HAWES, R. WARE, J. HODGES, C. CORBET,
J. BRINDLEY, and J. WARD.

MDCCLIII.

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THE

TABLE

OF

CONTENTS.

PARA

Book II.

Book III.

Book IV.

ARADISE REGAIN'd, Book I.

Page 1

19

SAMSON AGONISTES.

133

POEMS upon feveral OCCASIONS.

On the death of a fair Infant, dying of a cough. 135

At a Vacation Exercife in the College,

138

On the MORNING of CHRIST'S NATIVITY.

35

51

73

Song. On MAY MORNING.

On SHAKESPEAR.

On the University Carrier,

Another on the fame.

L'ALLEGRO.

IL PENSEROSO.

The PASSION.

On TIME.

Upon the CIRCUMCISION.

At a SOLEMN MUSIC.

354

An EPITAPH on the MARCHIONESS of

WINCHESTER.

141

150

152

153

155

157

158

îb.

159

160

164

AR-

170

175

LYCIDAS.

215

On the new forcers of confcience under the Long

PARLAMENT.

ARCADES.

A MASK.

i

221

The Fifth ODE of Horace, Lib. 1. English'd. 222

SONNETS.

224

To the NIGHTINGALE

ib.

On his being arriv'd to the age of 236

When the affault was intended to the City.

To a virtuous young Lady.

229

To the Lady Margaret Ley.

On the detraction which followed upon my writing

certain Treatifes.

7. ib.

On the fame.

To Mr. H. LAWES on his Airs.

On the religious memory of Mrs. Catharine Thom-

fon.

To the Lord General FAIRFAX.

To the Lord General CROMWELL.

To Sir HENRY VANE the younger.

On the late Massacre in Piemont.

On his blindness.

To Mr. LAWRENCE.

To CYRIAC SKINNER.

To the fame.

On his deceased WIFE.

PSALMS.

2

227

228

ib.

230

ib.

231

ib.

232

ib.

233

ib.

234

ib.

235

ib.

236

JOANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS POEMATA. 265

ELEGIARUM Liber primus.
273

Elegia Prima. Ad Carolum Deodatum. ib.

Elegia Secunda. In obitum Præconis Academici

Cantabrigienfis.

Elegia Tertia. In obitum Præfulis Wintonienfis.

275

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