Book V. ver. 637. They eat, they drink, and with refection fweet were thus enlarg'd in the fecond Edition. They eat, they drink, and in communion fweet Of furfeit, where full measure only bounds Book XI. ver 484. after, ,, Inteftine ftone, and ulcer, cholic-pangs, thefe three verfes were added. Demoniac phrenzy, moaping melancholy, And ver. 551. of the fame Book (which was originally thus, ,, Of rend'ring up. Michael to him reply'd) receiv'd this addition, Of rendring up, and patiently attend My diffolution. Michael reply'd. To what I have faid in the Life, of our Author's having no Monument, it may not be improper to add; that I defir'd a friend to inquire at St. Giles's Church; where the Sexton fhew'd him a fmall Monument, which he faid was fuppos'd to be MILTON's; but the Infcription had never been legible fince he was employ'd in that office, which he has poffefs'd about forty years. This, fure, cou'd never have happen'd in fo fhort a space of time, unless the Epitaph had been induftrioufly eras'd: and that fuppofition carries with it fo much inhumanity, that I think we ought to believe it was not erected to his memory. I N PARADISUM AMISSAM SUMMI POETE JOANNIS MILTONI. UI legis AMISSAM PARADISUM, grandia Que magni (16%, Carmina MILTONI, quid nifi cuncta legis? Res cunétas, & cunctarum primordia rerum, Et fata, & fines continet ifte liber. Intima panduntur magni penetralia mundi; Scribitur & toto quicquid in orbe latet: Terræque, tractusque maris, cœlumque profundum, Sulphureusque EREBI, flammivomusque fpecus. Quæque colunt terras, pontumque, & TARTARA сӕса; Quæque colunt fummi lucida regna poli. Et quodcunque ullis conclufum eft finibus ufquam, Et tamen hæc hodiè terra BRITANNA legit. Quantis |