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• Preface.
• Miscellaneous Poems.
• On the Morning of Christs Nativity.
• The Hymn.
• A Paraphrase On Psalm 114.
• Psalm 136.
• The Passion.
• On Time.
• Upon the Circumcision.
• At a Solemn Musick.
• An Epitaph On the Marchioness of Winchester.
• Song On May Morning
• Another On the Same.
• L’allegro.
• Il Penseroso.
• Sonnets.
• Arcades.
• Lycidas.
• A Maske Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634: On Michaelmasse Night, Before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord Præsident of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell.
• Poems Added In the 1673 Edition.
• Anno Aetatis 17. On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough.
• Anno Aetatis 19. At a Vacation Exercise In the Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. the Latin Speeches Ended, the English Thus Began.
• The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.
• Sonnets.
• On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament.
• On the Lord Gen. Fairfax At the Seige of Colchester.
• To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652.
• To S R Henry Vane the Younger.
• To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.
• Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653.
• April, 1648. J. M. Nine of the Psalms Done Into Metre, Wherein All But What Is In a Different Character, Are the Very Words of the Text, Translated From the Original.
• Passages From Prose Writings.
• A Collection of Passages Translated In the Prose Writings.
• Joanni Miltoni
• Elegiarum Liber Primus.
• Sylvarum Liber.
• Paradise Lost.
• Book I.
• Book II.
• Book III.
• Book IV.
• Book V.
• Book VI.
• Book VII.
• Book VIII.
• Book IX.
• Book X.
• Book XI.
• Book XII.
• Paradise Regaind. a Poem.
• The First Book.
• The Second Book.
• The Third Book.
• The Fourth Book.
• Samson Agonistes, a Dramatic Poem.
• Appendix.
• ( a ): Specimen of Milton’s Spelling, From the Cambridge Autograph Manuscript.
• ( B ): Note of a Few Readings In the Same Manuscript.
• ( C ) Erratum

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• Here lieth one who did most truly prove,
• That he could never die while he could move,
• So hung his destiny never to rot
• While he might still jogg on, and keep his trot,
• Made of sphear-metal, never to decay
• Untill his revolution was at stay.
• Time numbers motion, yet (without a crime
• ’Gainst old truth) motion number’d out his time:
• And like an Engin mov’d with wheel and waight,
• His principles being ceast, he ended strait.10
• Rest that gives all men life, gave him his death,
• And too much breathing put him out of breath;
• Nor were it contradiction to affirm
• Too long vacation hastned on his term.
• Meerly to drive the time away he sickn’d,
• Fainted, and died, nor would with Ale be quickn’d;
• Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed out-stretch’d,
• If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d,
• But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers,
• For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.20
• Ease was his chief disease, and to judge right,
• He di’d for heavines that his Cart went light,
• His leasure told him that his time was com,
• And lack of load, made his life burdensom,
• That even to his last breath (ther be that say’t)
• As he were prest to death, he cry’d more waight;
• But had his doings lasted as they were,
• He had bin an immortall Carrier.
• Obedient to the Moon he spent his date
• In cours reciprocal, and had his fate30
• Linkt to the mutual flowing of the Seas,
• Yet (strange to think) his wain was his increase:
• His Letters are deliver’d all and gon,
• Onely remains this superscription.