THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

CONTAINING HIS PRINCIPAL

POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL PIECES,

WITH

NEW TRANSLATIONS,

AND AN

INTRODUCTION.

BY GEORGE BURNETT,

LATE OF BALIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN MILLER, 72, CHANCERY LANE.

1809.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

THOMAS LORD ERSKINE.

MY LORD,

MILTON, the least perhaps of all authors, stands in need of a Patron. But a great part of your Lordship's life has been spent in upholding the same manly and enlightened principles of freedom, which pervade the Prose Writings of the greatest of our Poets. Your Lordship's own eloquence is marked by the same rapidity, fire, and splendour, which cha