Three Poets in three distant Ages bern
Greece Italy and England did adorn
The First in loftiness of thought Surpafsd:
The Next in Majesty, in both the Last.
The force of Nature cou'd no further got:
To make a Third she joyn'd the Former two.

Dryder

A

POEM,

IN

TWELVE BOOKS.

The AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

The TENTH EDITION, Adorn'd
with SCULPTURES.

LONDON:

Printed for Jacob Tonfon, at Shakespear's
Head, over-againft Katharine Street
in the Strand, MDCCXIX.