41) in which the poet speaks of his own blindness: Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, &c.
where, if anywhere, we should expect mee, we do not find it, though it occurs in the speech eight lines below.

It should be added that this differentiation of the pronouns is not found in any printed poem of Milton's before Paradise Lost, nor is it found in the Cambridge autograph.

In that manuscript the constant forms are me, wee, yee.
There is one place where there is a difference in the spelling of she, and it is just possible that this may not be due to accident.

In the first verse of the song in Arcades, the MS.

reads: This, this is shee; and in the third verse: This, this is she alone.
This use of the double vowel is found a few times in Paradise Regain'd: in ii.