Ολβιος, ός μέγα έργον εν αθανάτοισιν ανύσσας,
Ναίει απήμανος και αγήραος ήματα πάντα. .

HESIOD. THEOGONIA, V. 953.

Magnarum virium est tractare facra tam splendide, fimplicia tam erudite, inculta

tam polite, retrusa tam dilucide, a sensu communi abhorrentia tam populariter,
periculofa tam libere, severa tam plaufibiliter. Et tamen hunc virum, quem ne
fummi quidem queant assequi, non verentur calumniari et mediocres.

ERASMUS.

L O N D ON:
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M. DCC. XCVI.

THE

L I F E OF M I L T ON,

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

THE SECOND EDITION, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED.

Effigiem conor efficere, quæ hoc diuturnior erit, quo verior, melior, absolutior fuerit.

Plin. Epist. Lib. 3. Ep. 10.