An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

May compass it, shall willingly be paid

And numbered down. Much rather I shall choose

To live the poorest in my tribe, than richest,

And he in that calamitous prison left. 1480

No, I am fixed not to part hence without him.

For his redemption all my patrimony,

If need be, I am ready to forgo

And quit. Not wanting him, I shall want nothing.

Chorus. Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons; 1485

Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all;