PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

INTERSPERSED WITH

TRANSLATIONS AND CRITICAL REMARKS,

BY

CHARLES SYMMONS, D. D.

OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET,

FOR J. JOHNSON; NICHOLS AND SON; F. AND C. RIVINGTON;
otridge and soN; T. PAYNE; OGILVY AND SON; CUTHELL
AND MARTIN; VERNOR AND HOOD; R. LEA; J. WALKER;
CLARKE AND SON; J. STOCKDALE; LACKINGTON AND CO.;
LONGMAN AND CO.; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. HARDING;
R. H. EVANS; J. MAWMAN; J. HATCHARD; AND MATHEWS

AND LEIGH.

THE

LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON.

Si tyrannos insector, quid hoc ad reges? quos ego a tyrannis

longissimè sejungo

Defen. secund.

Nunc sub fœderibus coeant felicibus unà
Libertas, et jus sacri inviolabile sceptri:
Rege sub AUGUSTO fas sit laudare Catonem.

DR. GEORGE.

To the memory of
my most dear and accomplished Son,

CHARLES SYMMONS,

by the co-operation of whose fine mind and perfect taste

I have been largely benefitted as a writer,

and to the contemplation of whose piety and virtues, the sources of much of my past happiness, I am indebted for all my present consolation, I inscribe

THIS LIFE OF MILTON;

which, as it grew under his eye,

and was favoured with his regard, cannot be without value in my partial estimation.

On the 23d of May, 1805,

before he had completed his twenty-second year, he was torn from my affection and my hopes, experiencing from his God,

in requital of a pure life, the mercy of an early death.