John Milton

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Under Mr Milton's picture, before his "Paradise Lost".

  Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
  Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn.
  The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd;
  The next, in majesty; in both the last.
  The force of nature could no further go;
  To make a third, she join'd the former two.
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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 38: In Tonson's folio edition.]

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