THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON,

WITH NOTES OF VARIOUS AUTHORS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED ILLUSTRATIONS,

AND

SOME ACCOUNT OF

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MILTON,

BY THE REV. HENRY J. TODD, M.A. F. A. S.
RECTOR OF ALLHALLOWS, LOMBARD-STREET,

&c.

THE SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS,

AND WITII

A VERBAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE OF MILTON'S POETRY.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

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1809
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CONTENTS

OF THE SIXTH VOLUME.

Page

151

Preliminary Notes on Lycidas ; Mr. King

St. Michael's Mount

LYCIDAS

Various Readings of Lycidas from the Cambridge

Manuscript

Preliminary Notes on L'Allegro and" Il Penseroso

L'ALLEGRO

IL PENSEROSO

Preliminary Notes on Arcades; Harefield

Countess of Derby

Marston's Manufcript Mask

ARCADES

Various Readings of Arcades from the Cambridge

Manuscript

Preliminary Notes on Comus; Lawes's Dedication -

Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton

Some Account of Ludlow Castle

of the Earls of Bridgewater

of Henry Lawes

Origin of Comus

COMUS

Various Readings of Comus from the Cambridge

Manufcript

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