...it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some years I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, nor the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher...

...by Milton's own words, in which he seems to promise the production of some great poetical work. " ' Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, thatybr some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted,...

...spirit that none shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few., years } et I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not-...

...shame to covenant with my knowing reader that for some few years yet 1 may go on trusl with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heal of yomh, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist,...

...perhaps with a reference to this very work : — " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youih.or...

...gives intimations of his having proposed to himself a great poetical work, ' a work,' he says — ' Not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, lik' that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming...

...cause them to be read till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight. PARADISE LOST. A WORK not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows from the pen of some vulgar amorist, nor to be obtained by the...

...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the peu of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...thus expresses himself in his second book of the ' Reformation of Church Government, in 1641 :'— " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth,...

...will then appear to all men easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. ' • " A work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...