IBRARY

THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON:

EDITED,

WITH INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES,
AND AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH,

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOLUME I.

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1874.

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