THE POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON

EDITED

WITH MEMoir, introductions, NOTES, AND

AN ESSAY ON MILTON'S ENGLISH

AND VERSIFICATION

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A. LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

VOL. I.

THE MINOR POEMS

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1890

All rights reserved

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

First Edition 1874

Second Edition 1890