Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
From a family and town of his namo in Oxford shire, our author derived his descent; but he was born at London, in the year 1608. His father, John Milton, by profession a scrivener, lived in a reputa ble manner on a competent estate, entirely his own acquisition, having been early disinherited by his parents in renouncing the communion of the church of Rome, to which they were zealously devoted.
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