Excerpt from The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men, and Books, Sects, Parties, and Opinions; With Amyntor, or a Defense of Milton's Life His nephews; learnt what I could in difcourl'e with the other and lafily confulted fach of his acquaintance, as, after the belt inquiry, I was able to difeover, Thus completely fur hilb' d, I undertook, mofi ingenious Sir, the followm g work, as well to oblige you, as to infirm poflm'ty. And perform'd what I knew Would be acceptable to my friend with as much' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.