Three Poets in three distant Ages born Greece, Italy and England did adorn The First in loftinefs of thought Surpafsd; The Next in Majesty in both the Last. The force of Nature cou'd no further goe: make a Third she joynd the Former is, Dryder Paradise Lost.se A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS, The AUTHOR The NINTH EDITION, Adorn’d with SCULPTURES. ND LONDON: NRK CONSPICI PRODESSES To the Right Honourable Hohn Lord Sommers, Baron of Evesham. IT My Lord, nion and Encouragement that occasion’d the first Appearing of this Poem in the Folio Edition, which from thence has been fo well receiv'd, that notwithstanding the Price of it was Four times greater than before, the Sale encreas'd double |