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Excerpt from A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Vol. 5: Containing Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler and Denham
The great work of Paradife L011 was finifhed in 1665, at Chalfont in Bucks, where the Author had taken refuge from the plague, and publiihed in 1667, when he returned to London.) He fold the copy to Samuel Simmons for Five Pounds in hand, Five Pounds more when 1300 flzould be fold, and the fame farm on the publication of the fecond and third Editions, for each edition. Of this a Milton received in all Fifteen Pounds; and his widow afterwards fold her claims for Right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
