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Three Poets in three distant Ages born
Greece, Italy and England did adorn.
The First in loftiness of thought Surpass d;
The Next in Majesty, in both the Last..
The force of Nature coud no further goe:
To make a Third she joynd the Former two.

Dryden

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Paradife Loft

A

POEM,

IN

TWELVE BOOKS.

The AUTHOR
JOHN MILTON.

The NINTH EDITION, Adorn'd
with SCULPTURES.

LONDON:

Printed for Jacob Tonfon, at Shake
Spear's Head, over-against Catherine
Street in the Strand. MDCCXI.

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To the Right Honourable

John Lord Sommers,

Baron of Evebam.

My LORD,

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was Your Lordship's Opinion and Encouragement that occafion'd the first Appearing of this Poem in the FoZio 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

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