The last proof reaches me just a year after the first, and the progress of the work has not in the interval been interrupted.

In tenui labor et tenuis gloria.
Nevertheless I cannot be sorry it was undertaken.
H.C.B.
YATTENDON RECTORY, November 8, 1899.
Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Title page of 1645 edition follows: POEMS OF Mr John Milton, BOTH ENGLISH and LATIN Compos'd at several times.
-- ---------------------------- Printed by his true copies.
-- ---------------------------- The SONGS were set in Musick by Mr.HENRY LAWES Gentleman of the KINGS Chappel, and one of His MAIESTIES Private Musick.
-- ------Baccare frontem Cingite, ne vace noceat mala lingua futuro, Virgil, Eclog.

7.
-- --------------------------------------- Printed, and Publish'd according to ORDER.
-- --------------------------------------- LONDON, Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the signe of the Princes Arms in S.Pauls Church-yard.

1645.
Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Title page of 1673 edition follows: POEMS, &c.
UPON Several Occasions.
-- ------------------------ BY Mr.John Milton: -- ------------------------ Both ENGLISH and LATIN &c.
Composed at several times.
-- ------------------------ With a small tractate of EDUCATION To Mr.HARTLIB -- ------------------------ -- ------------------------ LONDON.
Printed for Tho.

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