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that this turbulent republican, whom they had so confidently condemned to difgrace and oblivion, would at length become the idol of univerfal veneration, that the minuteft occurrences of his life would be collected with a fond enthusiafin, that his monument would be reared amid the shrines of monarchs, and that his works would be ranked among the highest honours of his country.

I must add one or two more circumftances relating to my revifal of this volume, which, although fuperficial and extrinfic, are neceffary parts of previous information. I have found it expedient to alter or enlarge Milton's own titles, which feemed to want fulness and precifion, yet preserving their form and substance. Nor have I fcrupulously followed the order ufed in his own editions, which yet I have not greatly violated. In disturbing the feries of the pieces, my meaning was, not to study capricious and useless novelty, but to accommodate the reader, and to introduce uniformity, by a more methodical but obvious arrangement. I have endeavoured to render the text as uncorrupt and perfpicuous as poffible, not only by examining and comparing the authentic copies published under the author's immediate infpection, but by regulating the punctuation, of which Milton appears to have been habitually careless.

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XII. APOLOGUS DE RUSTICO ET HERO. 498. XIII. AD CHRISTINAM SUECORUM REGI

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IN EFFIGIEI EJUS SCULPTOREM.

PHILOSOPHUS AD REGEM QUENDAM, &C. 543.

AD SALSILLUM, POETAM ROMANUM,

ÆGROTANTEM.

MANSUS.

EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS.

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