Excerpt from The Poetical Works of John Milton, Vol. 2 of 7: With Notes of Various Authors; To Which Are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, the Second Edition, With Considerable Additions, and With a Verbal Index to the Whole of Milton's Poetry Thefe verfes by F. C. Are prefixed to Milton's poetical works in the Edition oft/re Engli/k poets, 1779. They had before appeared in Fawkes and Woty's Poetical Calendar, 1763, vol. Vin. 69. But we are not told who F. C. Was. As I have not yet met with thefe verfes in any other publication, I may be permitted to Offer a conjeelure that Francis Cradock, a member of the rota-club to which Milton belonged, might be the author of them. See Wood's am. 01. Vol. 11. 591. Todd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.