which were neceffary to make a connec

tion.

Book VIII. ver. 1.

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he a while
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear;
Then as new-wak'd thus gratefully reply'd,

The latter half of the verfe was taken from this in the firft Edition.

To whom thus Adam gratefully reply'd.

Book XII. ver. 1.

As one who in his journey baits at noon,
Though bent on speed; fo here the Arch-Angel

paus'd

Betwixt the world destroy'd and world restor'd,
If Adam ought perhaps might interpofe;
Then with tranfition fweet new fpeech refumes.

At the fame time the Author made fome few additions in other places of the Poem, which are here inferted for the fatisfaction of the curious.

Book V. ver. 637.

They eat, they drink, and with refection fweet
Are fill'd, before th' all-bounteous King, &c.

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were thus enlarg'd in the Second Edition,

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy, secure

Of furfeit where full measure only bounds
Excefs, before th' all-bounteous King, &c.

Book XI. ver. 484. after,

Inteftine ftone and ulcer, colic-pangs,

these three verfes were added,

Demoniac phrenzy, moaping melancholy,
And moon-ftruck madness, pining atrophy,
Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence.

And ver. 551. of the fame Book (which was originally thus,

"Of rend'ring up. Michael to him reply'd)

received this addition,

Of rend'ring up, and patiently attend
My diffolution. Michaël reply'd.

To what I have said in the Life, of our Author's having no Monument, it may not be improper to add, that I defired a friend to enquire at St. Giles's Church, where the fexton fhewed him a fmall Monu

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Monument, which he said was supposed to be MILTON's; but the infcription had never been legible fince he was employed in that office, which he has poffeffed about forty years. This, fure, could never have happened in so short a space of time, unless the Epitaph had been induftriously erafed and that fuppofition carries with it fo much inhumanity, that I think we ought to believe it was not erected to his memory.

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UI legis Amiffam Paradifum, grandia magni
Carmina Miltoni, quid nifi cuncta legis ?
Res cunctas, & cunctarum primordia rerum,
Et fata, & fines continet ifte liber.
Intima panduntur magni penetralia mundi,
Scribitur & toto quicquid in orbe latet :

Terræque, tractufque maris, cœlumque profundum,
Sulphureumque Erebi, flammivomumque fpecus :
Quæque colunt terras, pontumque, & Tartara cæca,
Quæque colunt fummi lucida regna poli :
Et quodcunque ullis conclufum eft finibus ufquam,
Et fine fine Chaos, & fine fine Deus:

Et fine fine magis, fi quid magis eft fine fine,
In Chrifto erga homines conciliatus amor.
Hæc qui fperaret quis crederet effe futura!

Et tamen hæc hodie terra Britanna legit.
O quantos in bella duces! quæ protulit arma!
Quæ canit, & quanta prælia dira tuba!
Coeleftes acies! atque in certamine cœlum !
Et quæ cœleftes pugna deceret agros !
Quantus in æthereis tollit fe Lucifer armis!
Atque ipfo graditur vix Michaele minor?
Quantis, & quam funeftis concurritur iris,
Dum ferus hic ftellas protegit, ille rapit!

Dum vulfos montes ceu tela reciproca torquent,
Et non mortali defuper igne pluunt :
Stat dubius cui fe parti concedat Olympus,
Et metuit pugnæ non fupereffe fuæ.
At fimul in cœlis Meffice infignia fulgent,
Et currus animes, armaque digna Deo,
Horrendumque rotæ ftrident, & fæva rotarum
Erumpunt torvis fulgura luminibus,
Et flammæ vibrant, & vera tonitrua rauco
Admiftis flammis infonuere polo:

Excidit attonitis mens omnis, & impetus omnis,
Et caffis dextris irrita tela cadunt;
Ad pœnas fugiunt, & ceu foret Orcus asylum,
Infernis certant condere fe tenebris.
Cedite Romani Scriptores, cedite Graii,

Et quos fama recens vel celebravit anus.
Hæc quicunque leget tantùm ceciniffe putabit
Mæonidem ranas, Virgilium culices.