A common-place book of John Milton, and a Latin essay and Latin verses presumed to be by Milton

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INTRODUCTION.

JoH MILΤΟΝ is admitte to stand seconLonlyrio Shahespeare in tho ol o Englisti Poets. Looking at the numerous testimontes during his lis time to hakospeare' existen e the number of his play and poems, the an aequaintances hom his mere pro sesSion must necessarii hau sorcedispon him, the friend whom his un- doubted genia natur mus have secured, and the various usineSStransactions in hicli ho mus have engaged e re ein able toaccumulate the competene on hicli e retire to the country, it Seem strange that Sicor even signatures re ali that rem ain fine actuat ritin of him ho in litorature, is England' chies Hory. ut loohin at these signatures, and considering the tradition about hahespeare's outh, it a b doubted fine as evera good enman transcript by the persons of his ough rasis Would serve so the la Hous and the Press an his usinesstransactions ere mos likel essected by seri veners the circumstances under hicli ho is traditionali reporte to haverars comet London ould perhaps provent hi fro correspondin With his country friends and no even a copy or print of an lette byhim exigis. Milton, o the oster and lia a liberal ducation; early in iis he ad aequaintanco illi me o good positio in England and o tho Continent he was in tho service of the State; many of his ossicia and privato letters are in print he a notoni a poet ut also a politicia an a theologian moreove his handWritin Was remarhably good, and p to the age of orty-sevenis sorty-eight he could se to rite aut a se pages of the

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sour letters an signatures, and perhaps a se notes in printed books, are ali stat has hitherio been nown to exis of the writing

That Milton a a diligent reade of books e learn rom hetestimon of his nephew E. Philips biit, is that testimony ha been

absunt Milton's printed orks ould have supplied the evidence. His Histor of England may havo occupied some time, and the fources sit a in comparati vel se volumes, hich may have been consulted by him seriatim asino made progress With the work. ut ome of his ther troatiges have rosereno to Authors of widely disseront Charaeter and concerning widely disserent subjecis, and the readinesswith whicli his en could engage in controvers Would Seem to hoWiliatae mus have accumulatexstores on hicli ho could dra sorillustrations authorities, and proos . Adonilis of Author road orconsultodi Milion may bo mado rom his printed morks, althoughhe was no prosus in direct citations an in many instances it is castor to se that o dro fro his store os acquire knowledgothan to ascertain the exaut oureos oscit; hile the wealth fallusion in the great poenis composed after e ecame lin seumsimpossibi excepi on the suppositioni adventilious id previoustyprepared.

What might be et conjecture is no prove by the Volumes und amon Si F. Gratiam's aper durin recent researche madeso tho Historical Manuscript Commission and that volume supplies

It contains res reneus o Tities hicli aro no in that volume, and nevor ore incit Moreovor there is a margina resereno in p. 197

In the autumn o last year r. Pnyn Collior announco that a copy os Cooper' Thesaurus sol. 1573 in his possession containe numerous notes by Milion and by r. Collier' courtes Phuve had the plensuro Os sediniit My visit wasa io Ahortato justis the expression Os more than POpinion, that the specimens whieli Psaw disser rom lia I had revictust known a Milion A Wri ting.

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to an Inde Theologicus, formin a separate volume or at eas a sectio os noster volume. The Commonplaco Boo no printed Shows, osti in Milton's Wn andWriling, a lis os upWard of eight author road by him-Englisti, rench, Italian, Latin and Greeh. The entrios are o mere extracts rom thes Authors, theyare osti Instances an Conclusion deduce from, o sortifi0d by reserenoes to them. The angvage is in many ages Milton's, somelimes in Englisti, rench, Italian, o Latin. In one o tW cases here theland Writing akb an Amanuensis the cntry foem to have been made hilo Milton dictate the sentendo: tho scribo has had just timorio rite o begin ord8, hen the Sentone buin incomplete Milion directe them to se cancellud, and then substitute another phraso. An instance of this reaiment sat p. 77. In a letto by Milion to Peter Hoimbach writte in 1666, he apologisos for the bad writing, saying that the o employed towrite a quit ignorant of Latin and that he Milton was obligodio dictatu, no the words, ut ne by one the letters of hicli thoy

Thocloaves of tho S. 0asuro IH inchus in uight y early inchos inardadth. Originalty there mus have been 126 leaves,

is not aged. The lower alvos of the rs sevo leaves have been cutiss the leaves sorining p. 33-37, 3 98, 20 and 208, 225-228, and 23l-234 have been ut ut Stight fragments of tho in ne portions of 83-98 remain, and thes have been preservedin the rubinding of the volume, bucauso the fragment of p. 87inows rum ain os ritin no by Milton's and place transversol and ut through A the table at the en is perseet, anil

At p. 221 is a referene to nothor o the ther IndeX. ut a P. ι is the subjeci, it seditis that the redeae Theologicus Was intended.

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x INTRODUCTION.

At p. 5 milton noticos from modax Caedmon an his poetry. Francis unius, the possessor of tho MS no in the Bodleian Libra o Caedmon' metrical Paraphraso, as ne of Milton Ssriends, and may have hown them S., o may have communicated the content to him. Somo have supposed that Milton took omellinis rom his poem so the framework of Paradis Lost.-At p. 10 is a remar showin Milton' displeasure at the marriage of Charios L ith ono of th Roma Catholic bellus. At p. 79he rand the La Fronch, then an sor early a centur later used in a Reporis, gibberisti. -At p. 80 his remarhon the tendeno of the Englisti to solio Fronch fustions ould seon to lea to the insereno that the sentence a Writte Soonaster the marriage of Charies L There is evidenti an allusion to Charies L at p. 246, here remonstrant are by the rine trealedas Rebeis. It will e notico that tho numerous origina chronieler and writers of Englisti histor vovched by Milton in his Histor of Britain domo suem to havo oon road by him hilo the Common- place Boo was in proces of compilation. I avo examine thepros Work of Milion illi a vie to findlo sar this Commonplace Boo was ad servicoabio in his various compositions sor facilityos referonee, se has been ad of the edition in ono Volume, by Roberti Fletelior. 8vo.. Lond. Q 858. and notos ill direct tho

Tho leaves aro much damp-stained. The volume has been rebound by r. Zuehnsdorf, undae has strongilieno an admirabi tronte tho leaves Without in the leas assecting the various tints of the in ks used by the writers.

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noticeablo that no se eem to have been ad of many entries onsubjecis to hicli Milion speciali addresso himself, and wherocitation os, o reserences o, author o repute 'ould have ad dedsorce or at eas authori , t his N arguments Such an absen eo citationi is no hoWeve to e ondere a When the tempero Milton' minxi considered sor it Was characterised by aversionstom authori Meanow, rom hulae has 'ritte is himself, tho ardour an extent of his studies, his consciousnes of ability,

and his determination to leave omewhat hicli ho mort would not illingi let die so the writte thoughts of ther authors ereused by him a montal ood tot digeste an assimilated, and at fit timos tot reproduced from his brat in belle o varie forms. Milto suem to have had an exalted idea of himself and his doings. At in ago os orty e thought it no vnbecoming, in a controversial treatiso Theraecondies ence of the Peoplo os England), toditate illi complaceno on the graces of his person an a se years besore, in the pology sor mectymnuus, e sillud sevorat pages illi an account and very interestini it is of his groat diligunc in stud and the pursui os virtve so it is no surprisingstat at tho more outhsul age of thirt he ave a grandiloquent account to a friend of the extent of his recent studios lottorto Carlo oodati dated 3rd of September, 1637, o says, PWas long employed in nravelling the obscure histor of the Italians

These passages are atip. 67-69 of the present volume, an are referre to bymeans of the Roman numeralo in bracheis in the textis the volume. Thore is in the secon book of io Reason os Chure Gorern men urgedagainst relat a passago in scor O men hos learning an belle lio in themargina Stumngs.

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unde the Lombards, the Franks, and Germans, to the time lienthe received thei liberi s rom Rodolphus in o Germany. Anyone Oidd suppos that Milton ad beon adin through allor mos of the riters ho reate of that histor during the evencenturies indicatud. Tho Commonplace Book owevor hows that we nee no conclude more tha that he had been reading, in single volume, hemistor of Ital by Sigonius from A. D. 570to A.D. 1286, the Xac space of time res erre tora Milton. Tho handwritin of Milton has been in subjectis a monographby the late r. eigh Sotheby, hos volume contain a fullaccount of the Milton MSS. at Cambri ige, and of the se othersilien nown. Si F. Gratiam' volume contain a reat maS Ofwriting by the Poet' hand though, it must e consessed, it is noto tho like intoros mitti the Cambri ige volume, bucauserit oes notaontain an purei origina compositions. The ontries in the Commonplace Book re by sive or si hand8. The reatur number area Milton a various period of his life mostly bes oro

his Oin into Italy. Wo in p. 197 aro b Daniel hinnor. Some entries re by one of the and that copie paris of the Treatis De Doctrina Christianu, no in the Publi Record Ossico, an edito by r. astor Nard Bishop Sumno in 1825. Somo area in hand whicli copiod the Sonne No i in the Cambridgo M S.; ne a leasthi by the hand that ad tho transcript of the Firs Book of Paradiso os in the possession of r. aker os B sordbury and om are, I seel satisfied by Si R. Gratiam os Netherby Viseount Preston. The autolypes hicli accompany the preSent volume iue specimens of ali ut tw of tho disserenthandwritings containo in Si F. Gratiam's S. Milton's ritinggenerali spealis sor itself r. Sothuby's volume, and the fac-

Caroli Sigonii IIistoriarum de regno Italii libb. XX. qui libri historiam ut anno DLXX. Sque MCCLXXXVI, quo regnum interiit et litteris Italia re tempta est continent. Francosurti, DXCI. This a illo edition sed , Milton.

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similes in tho print dii oditioni tho Treati solo Doctrina Christiana, an in the Englisti translatio oscit, and in rosessor Masson' Lise of Milton, ill nable anyon to compare at the specimen CXCeptiliose of the ontrios by Lord Proston' hund Tho mali ritingb Milton is os artior dat than tho large . Milion soritin has omo distinguishin martis. He is notcaresul, after a sui stop, to bugin the ollowin sentenco illi a capita lotior; ho is indisserent to tho correct pellin os a me of

have eo the S poem found by r. Morte ut the en o Milton's Poenis 8vo. 1645ὶ the use of the forintheir is stlone, I hink, conclusive against iis belligi, Milton' haud and there are objections in the writing, particulari the forin f the sinat h. The ad gramma and the fuit tussin o oonoetii re strongurguments against it ein compoSed is Milton. The se of the samo forintheir in the poem igne J. M. Writte o a lanii page of Rosso' Me Heliconium is, Ιthink, fata to the etaim of thos verses to e by Milton's and and the mali othere mos frequently used is no that sed by Milton. In tho initials . M. appende to that poem thera is ot croSSed, a variation rom at the undoubted signatures o Milion, and the M. tis r. Sotheb admits is a variance illi that used by Milton. It is rem arkable that both poem introduce the Bee, and the alehemicat fictio of floweraeing reproducibi fro iis cale inexashes. Among the SS. of Si Roginal Graham, Bari is a volume of Oetr containing an epitaph o Madam ligabeth Wettentiam in 14 lines, horo the

similarit of the 12th and 13th line to the r aud th of the dispute poem ig

The fame volumem poeir contain the folio in g, Multi Magarini Cardinalis Epitaphium. author Joh. Milion. V The writer thenaives the last throe lines of CA ID SOC. c

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Boiardo ut p. 77 and 87 and of a malle hin thos frona Macchi avolli' Discors at p. 48, 85, 98, 242, 243 246, and

246, hieli alter, though in somo respoet tho resemble Some os

the long areasti epitaphisia Cardina Magar in hieli a be found a longili in Charies Gildoti's Miscellan Postms 8vo Lond 1692 an in vol. i. par 2 of tho State Poenis, in both of Whieli collections it is attributei to Milton These threolinosae expand into ten lines of Engliis verse. Thenio optes the Latin epigramon Popo Bonifae the VIIIth also to e found in Gildon' Miscellan Poenis, and the State Poenas and gives a poetical version Dit. The sanie volume of S poein contains To a friendispon reading r Charies Gildon' Miseellan Poenis eighloen lines . I miris. I have Sir, by a transient lookTravors'd his miscellaneolas book: Pardon the in Whieli Phave pili nThe two quaint epitaphsi Milton Pp. 29, 3.3. The referene to p. 29 and Mare evidenti to the page of Gildon' volumo: the epitaph on Magari bella ut p. 29, and the epigram n Boniface at p. 33 Sothai Gildon, ho Was a cotemtiornr of Milton attribute these two Latin productions to iii m.

Charies Gildon res a friendis Charies Blount, hos Miscellaneous Works ore publi Ahod collecti vel in 1695, in ne volume, in hicli is a long resac by Gildonto the oracloco Reason. ne filotan ' productions is in jus vindication os Loarning and the liberino the Press, is truci os o quite twenty-thre pagosa ut p. 4 of whieli ho stys, I cannot ut herei agre With Mr Milion an say that unlescit be essected With great caution 3 oui ad ulmos re good res illis an as

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The en tr in p. 85 ould sdem to have been the lusi hin placedon that pago it is important, a containing the dictum that against an Vil prince the word is the ni remody. Whether l, Milton's han or not, the ontry was ad in his issetimo. The cad ordDivitiae at p. 48, whicli pago contain nothinibu a note rom Macchiavelli, seem to bo by the copter os that par of the realiseD Doctrina Christiana of whicli a specimen is ive in plute XX. No. 2 of r. Sotheby' Work. Such of the iatrios in the Commonplace Boo as are o byMilton's an aro in the prosunt volume printed in Itali letters. In a se of the margins ill e ound res rencos, by mean of number in bracheis, o similar and writings copied in r. Sothoby' volume the firs numbo indicatus the late the econdnumber indicates the specimen in that late.' A table of thoauthor cito is added, and wil bo ound at p. 64-66 of the

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Tho Latin prolusionis ad tres in avo ur of early rising and thevorsos hieli solio it and whieli Ombod the samo ideas a those

I sim nable to ad an interestinii tem to on Serent knowledge of Milton sdoings abroad. In tho Travellers Book of the Englisti College ut Romerit is redorded that on tho 30th of October, 1638, Milion an his servant, nil N. Cary brother OfLordialkland Dr. Holdin os LancnSter, and N. Fortescue inedis the college. Tho ontry Whieli mas seritu Si T. Dussus Hard by Mr Stevonson no a Romo examining the Vatican MSS. sor ur overtament), is a follows Octobris dio 30,Γrunsi sunt in Collegio nostro Illustrissimus D. N. Car frater baronis de Fauheland Doctor Holdingus, LancnStrenSis, . . Fortescuto et Dominus Miltonus cum inmulo, nobiles Angli, et excepti Sunt lauto.