APPENDIX. Specimen of Milton`s spelling, from the Cambridge autograph manuscript. |
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APPENDIX.Specimen of Milton`s spelling, from the Cambridge autograph manuscript.
ON TIME set on a clock case Fly envious Time till thou run out thy race
call on the lazie leaden-stepping howres
whose speed is but the heavie plummets pace
& glut thy selfe wth what thy womb devoures
Wch is no more then what is false & vaine
& meerly mortall drosse
so little is our losse
so little is thy gaine
for when as each thing bad thou hast entomb`d
& last of all thy greedie selfe consum`d
then long Aeternity shall greet our blisse
wth an individuall kisse
and Joy shall overtake us as a flood
when every thing yt is sincerely good
& pfectly divine
with Truth, & Peace, & Love shall ever shine
about the supreme throne
of him t` whose happy-making sight alone
when once our heav`nly-guided soule shall clime
then all this earthie grossnesse quit
attir`d wth starres wee shall for ever sit
Triumphing over Death, & Chance, & thee O Time.
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