The Poetical Works of John Milton


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So never flaggs, but always keeps on Wing.  
Where couldst thou words of such a compass find?  
Whence furnish such a vast expence of mind?  
Just Heav'n thee like Tiresias to requite  
Rewards with Prophesie thy loss of sight.  
Well mightst thou scorn thy Readers to allure  
With tinkling Rhime, of thy own sense secure;  
While the Town-Bayes writes all the while and spells,  
And like a Pack-horse tires without his Bells:  
Their Fancies like our Bushy-points appear,  
The Poets tag them, we for fashion wear.  
I too transported by the Mode offend,  
And while I meant to Praise thee must Commend.  
Thy Verse created like thy Theme sublime,  
In Number, Weight, and Measure, needs not Rhime.  
A.M.  
Note: On Paradise Lost] Added in the second edition 1674.  
The Printer to the Reader.  
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