Specimens of Milton's Handwriting, AT VARIOUS DATES. FROM 1628 TO 1637. SIGNATURE, AS B. A., IN THE GRADUATION BOOK AT CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 1628-9. Joannes Milton EXTRACT FROM THE FIRST DRAFT OF A LETTER TO A FRIEND, OF WHICH THERE ARE TWO Yet that you may 322 that Jam som lym & sulpicions of my sitte, dor take notice of a exfaine belated. wests in my selfe, fom the badds to stad you apoise some of my night ward though since hitley fox in a petrachian Stanza. whole you strafe, yen may ay com & in How soone hard Time the surtle theefe of youth Stolne my my hashing days fly on w on his wing on with full careers, thra & twenwith yeare no bud or blossome shaw it Per happs my semblance might deceale ye Stuth that I to manhood am arri'd to hear Im ward ripenesse loth much losse appear b that some more gymely-happie spirts! or more midn'th Soone or slow toward with Tyme leads me, high the will of heaven all is if I have grace to use it so ! SIGNATURE, AS M. A., IN THE GRADUATION BOOK AT CAMBRIDGE, JULY 1632 Joannis Milton SONG, FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. OF COMUS, IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, 1634. Song haire Listen bing where thou start sitting under the glassic cooks tranflucent wate in twisted braids of Lillies knitting the loose ng maine of thy amber dropping "Listen for dear honours saki Goddessɛ of the silver lake Listen and Sabe CONCLUDING LINES OF COMUS, FROM THE SAME MS. mortalls that would follow me CONCLUDING LINES OF LYCIDAS, FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. DRAFT IN THE LIBRARY wth This sang the uncouth swoing to th’oakes & rills while still morne went out with s and als be techs the powder Hope of various quill gray s and ale bought tender tops. hills Eager thought warbling his Dorick lay and now the sun had strat cut out all the hills, pratent and now was dropt into west on the western bay at last he rose and twitcht his mantle blew To morrow to fresh woods and pasturs new |