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 cou'd no further goe:
To make a Third she joynd the Former two.

Dryden

Marshall Drag: Hall Refor.
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.

PRODES

To the Right Honourable

John Lord Sommers,

Baron of Evesham.

My LORD,

was Your Lordship's Opinion and Encouragement that occafion'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