JOHN MILTON COMPLETE SHORTER POEMS EDITED BY JOHN CAREY SECOND EDITION Harlow, England • London • New York • Boston • San Francisco • Toronto Sydney • Tokyo • Singapore • Hong Kong • Seoul • Taipei • New Delhi Cape Town • Madrid • Mexico City • Amsterdam • Munich • Paris • Milan Contents Note by the General Editors ix Preface to the Second Edition xi Preface to the First Edition xiii Abbreviations xvii Selected Journal Abbreviations xix Chronological Table of Milton’s Life and Chief Publications xxi THE MINOR POEMS AND SAMSON AGONISTES Textual Introduction 3 9 Elegia secutida. In Obitum Praeconis Academici 1 A Paraphrase on Psalm cxiv 6 Cantabrigiensis [Elegy II. On 2 Psalm cxxxvi 7 the Death of the University of Cambridge Beadle] 25 3 Carmina Elegiaca [Elegiac Verses] 10 10 In Obitum Praesulis Eliensis [On the Death of the 4 Ignavus satrapam . [Kings Bishop of Ely] 27 should not oversleep] 12 5 Philosophus ad regem . 11 In Obitum Procancellarii haec subito misit [A Medici [On the Death of the philosopher on his way Vice-Chancellor, a Doctor] 30 to execution • - • ] 12 12 In Proditionem Bombardicam 6 Apologus De Rustico et Hero [On the Gunpowder Plot] 34 [The Fable of the Peasant 13 In Eandem [On the Same] 35 and the Landlord] 13 14 In Eandem [On the Same] 35 7 On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough 14 15 In Eandem [On the Same] 36 8 Etegia prima ad Carolum 16 In Inventorem Bombardae Diodatum [Elegy I. To [On the Inventor of Charles Diodati] 19 Gunpowder] 37 v VI CONTENTS 17 In Quintum Novembris 34 On the Morning of [On the Fifth of Christ’s Nativity 101 November] 37 35 Elegia sexta [Elegy VI] 116 18 Elegia tertia. In Obitum 36 The Passion 122 Praesulis Wintoniensis [Elegy III. On the Death of the 37 On Shakespeare 126 Bishop of Winchester] 50 38 On the University 19 Elegia quarta. Ad Thomarn Carrier . 127 Junium . [Elegy IV. To 39 Another on the Same 129 Thomas Young . ] 55 40 An Epitaph on the 20 Saturam non pati senium Marchioness of Winchester 130 [That Nature does not suffer from old age] 63 41 L’Allegro 134 21 De Idea Platonica 42 11 Penseroso 144 quemadmodum Aristoteles 43 Sonnet VII 152 intellexit [Of the Platonic Ideal Form as understood 44 Ad Patrem [To My Father] 153 by Aristotle] 68 45 Note on Ariosto 161 22 Elegia septima [Elegy VII] 72 46 Arcades 161 23 At a Vacation Exercise in 47 At a Solemn Music the College 78 167 24 Elegia quinta. In adventum 48 On Time 170 ivris [Elegy. V. On the 49 Upon the Circumcision 172 Coming of Spring] 83 50 A Masque presented at 25 Sonnet l 91 Ludlow Castle, 1634 26 Song. On May Morning 93 [Comus] 173 27 Sonnet II 94 51 Psalm cxiv 234 28 Sonnet III 95 52 Haec ego mente ... [A postscript to his love 29 Canzone 96 poems] 236 30 Sonnet IV 97 53 Lycidas 237 31 Sonnet V 98 54 Fix here . 257 32 Sonnet VI 98 55 Ad Leonoram Romae 33 The Fifth Ode of Horace, canentem [To Leonora Lib. I 99 singing at Rome] 257 CONTENTS vii 56 Ad eandem [To the same] 258 72 On the New Forcers of Conscience under the 259 57 Ad eandem [To the same] Long Parliament 298 58 Ad Salsillum poetam 73 Sonnet XIV 300 Romanum . [To Salziili, a Roman poet . ] 260 74 Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae 59 Mansus [Manso] 262 Bibliothecarium [To John 60 Epitaphium Damonis Rouse, Librarian of [Damon’s Epitaph] 270 Oxford University] 302 61 Translations from ‘Of 75 Sonnet XI 307 Reformation’ 286 76 Psalms lxxx-lxxxviii 309 62 Translation from ‘Reason of Church-Government’ 287 77 On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of 63 Translations from ‘Apology Colchester 323 for Smectymnuus’ 287 78 Translation from ‘Tenure 64 Sonnet VIII. When the of Kings and Magistrates’ 325 assault was intended to the City 288 79 Translations from ‘The 65 Sonnet X. To the Lady History of Britain’ 325 Margaret Ley 289 80 Epigram from Defensio pro 66 Sonnet IX 291 Populo Anglicano 327 67 Translation from title-page 81 To the Lord General of ‘Areopagitica’ 292 Cromwell 328 68 Translation from 82 To Sir Henry Vane ‘Tetrachordon’ 292 the Younger 329 69 In Effigiei eius Sculptor 83 Sonnet XVI 331 [On the Engraver of his Portrait] 293 84 Psalms i—viii 333 70 Sonnet XIII. To Mr H. 85 Verses from Defensio Lawes 294 Secunda 340 71 Sonnet XII. On the 86 Sonnet XV. On the late Detraction which followed Massacre in Piedmont 341 upon my Writing Certain Treatises 296 87 Sonnet XVII 343 viii CONTENTS 88 Sonnet XVIII 345 91 From tide-page of the 89 To Mr Cyriack Skinner second edition of‘The Upon his Blindness 346 Ready and Easy Way’ 349 90 Sonnet XIX 347 92 Samson Agonistes 349 PARADISE REGAINED Introduction 417 93 The Poem 424 Bibliography of References Cited 513 Index of Tides and First Lines 518.