After a Photograph from the onginal picture, in the possession of Edgar Disney Esq of the Hyde. Ingatestone Essea

THE LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON:

NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH

THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOL. I.

1608-1639.

SECOND EDITION.

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1875.

[The Right of Translation is Reserved.]

After a Photograph from the anginal picture, in the possession of Edgar Disney Esq or the Ivde, Ingatestone. Essi