SAMSON AGONISTES,

A DRAMATIC POEM.

THE AUTHOR

JOHN MILTON.

Τραγωδία μίμησις πράξεως σπουδαίας, &c.

Aristot. Poet. cap. vi.

Tragoedia est imitatio actionis seriæ, &c. per misericordiam et metum perficiens talium affectuum lustrationem.

POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

WITH A MEMOIR.

VOL. III.

Perennis

et

Fragrans.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1866.

McN

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa

chusetts.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY,

CAMBRIDGE.

On the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough... 154

An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatic Poet W.
Shakespeare.

187

On the new Forcers of Conscience under the Long
Parliament.............

SONNETS:

I. To the Nightingale..........

196

198

II. 'Donna leggiadra, il cui bel nome honora.'..... 198