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EPIGRAM ... SEEING SOME SHEETS OF MILTON'S PARADISE LOST by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: DID MILTON'S PROSE, O CHARLES, THY DEATH DEFEND?
Last Line: THE MURD'ROUS CRITIC HAS AVENG'D THY MURDER.
Subject(s): MILTON, JOHN (1608-1674);

Did MILTON'S Prose, O CHARLES, thy Death defend?
A furious Foe unconscious proves a Friend.
On MILTON'S Verse does B--t--ly comment? -- Know
A weak officious Friend becomes a Foe.
While he but sought his Author's Fame to further,
The murd'rous Critic has aveng'd thy Murder.



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